Spent Sunday with the wife setting up our annual Halloween decorations in the front yard. Came home Monday after work around 5:30 to find them strewn around the lawn. Too many neighbor kids to place place blame. Set them back up. Got home Tuesday and the same thing happened. Tombstones knocked over, stakes pulled out of the ground, etc. etc.
So today I found a program on my laptop that uses the webcam and will start recording when it detects motion. Set it up in the front window during lunch today. We’ll see what it catches.
Definitely do it tomorrow. And the day after. You’re setting the camera up inside and so nobody can see you doing it, right? Hope you catch the little shits.
The program came preloaded on my Sony VAIO laptop. It’s called ArcSoft WebCam Companion 3. Looks like it sells for $40 off their website.
It’s pretty slick in that in only records when it detects motion.
I asked a question about webcam software here last year and got an answer of ustream.tv. I don’t think it does motion sensor type stuff, but we got to watch our dog all day to see what was upsetting him.
Well yeah, it’s a camera outputting a video signal. Of course it’s always watching. The software isn’t actually detecting motion, but rather a change in the video image - it would interpret a light turning on and off as “motion” even though nothing is physically moving.
Does it allow you to designate pixelated grid sections as active or inactive? You might check if you’re getting false positives from windblown branches, passing cars, etc. Sure cuts down on the review time.