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I know someone was looking for a way to set up a home camera system, saw this deal and thought to share.. it changes at midnight tonight.

Available at Woot!

Motorola Home Monitoring & Control System
$79.99+ $5 shipping

condition:
New
product(s):
1 Motorola Home Monitoring and Control PC Starter Kit - HMEZ2010
1 Additional Motorola Wireless Color Camera HMWL1010
1 Free Year of Service
1 Motorola Wireless Power Controller

Silent Cold wrote:
I know someone was looking for a way to set up a home camera system, saw this deal and thought to share.. it changes at midnight tonight.

Available at Woot!

Motorola Home Monitoring & Control System
$79.99+ $5 shipping

condition:
New
product(s):
1 Motorola Home Monitoring and Control PC Starter Kit - HMEZ2010
1 Additional Motorola Wireless Color Camera HMWL1010
1 Free Year of Service
1 Motorola Wireless Power Controller

I am unsure the quality but I was interested.

It was this part that I did not like.

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Optional monthly subscription required for remote access with real time monitoring and system control - first year included free *(renewable for $10/month at end of 1st year)
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Too many restrictions. I want to set it up without fees. There is probably ways around it I am sure 😉

I wonder what the quality of the cameras really are..

Thanks for the info man.

There was a one year free subscription. I've also seen software you can use with free websites to send/retrieve your camera pics. Better still, you can setup a php script on your own webhosting to do the same thing. Otherwise, it would all work inside your house. Google webcam remote viewing solutions . . . or search usenet for the same...

Tempting as I have a detached garage and a remote front entrance, but beware the cameras are not very low lux at .3 and .01 was suggested as better. Would work fine beside your motion/flood lites tho.

Lexx, can you explain that last part? I'm new to this.....

Atomm wrote:
Lexx, can you explain that last part? I'm new to this.....

They need light to see, hence in low light conditions the useable visual is too dark, putting them next to a motion floddlight will surely brighten anything that is moving up, moving and tripping your motion sensors that is.

Yah sure Atomm. These cameras best feature allows you to monitor your home while away via internet, but its not cheap. The one free year is fine to begin with, but they will want your life info to setup an account. I investigated several 'free' webcam hostings, many are smut, and probably not good to view from work. You open an acct, then direct your cameras to send pics there, and you can view them from work, etc.

Cheaper solution, but it takes alot of setting up, but there is shareware and pay software that will peel off pics from your video feed and ftp them to your webhosting. You need a mysql database to setup a few php fields to manage and and view your images. You also need to contact your webhosting to make sure they open ports into querys, which could cost ya more money a month, but most turn it on and just measure bandwidth charges back to you. Also, you can setup streaming video like x10 uses, but thats a serious waste of bandwidth since a pic every 15-60 secs is ample and easier to work with.

The lux they talk about is important according to where you place these or any other cameras. .01 was suggested as being the best while .3 needs a considerable light source, or about 60w per 80 sq ft. Paladin has motion detector flood lamps on the back of his house. All he would need to do is mount the camera just outside the flash diameter of the floodlamp, and it would pickup just fine once the area was lit. The camera would always be on, just couldn't see anything until the sensor kicked in the lights. For most front porches your going to have a 60w light source anyways, so a .3 lux is ok providing you keep the light on, or add a motion detector and a timer to it. I'm pretty sure you can setup the software to ignore black frames and only send hours of the day your not home, like 9-5... its been over a year since I looked into this, so my info is abit dated.

I've been looking at this more tonite. This might be the ticket to replace x10s. Heres what you can add to the kit:

HMEZ2010

Wired Camera
Wireless Camera - Day
Wireless Camera - Day/Night
Wireless Motion Sensor
Wireless Door/Window Sensor
Wireless Temperature Sensor
Wireless Water Sensor
Wireless Repeater
Wireless Siren
Wireless Power Controller
Wireless Keypad Kit
Wireless Keypad Keys

So this increases the risk to buy one, at least as far as I can see. You can add alarm functions, temp and water sensors, 7 wired cameras, and 4 wireless I believe.. They HAVE lowlux night cameras, as well as wired ones for $30 each.

Looks like a sweet deal if you want to stretch its capabilities.

http://www.smarthomeusa.com/ShopByManufact.../Item/HMEZ2010/

Actually Lexx it is MUCH easier than you think. If you can get the images on your HD, say every 5 seconds, you can then set up a simple web server to view them from. No ISP port opening crap at all.
The only trick is you always need to know your IP and there are programs that can post that to you if it changes etc... I have the one camera on my driveway saving images every 5 seconds that I can log in and view as well as control all my lights etc... All part of the home automation software. There are free ways to do it on your own though.

Just pick a port to run the web server on, I do not recommend the normal 80. Then do port forwarding on your router to send those requests to the proper computer in your house that the server is running on.
I actually had a few web servers running. 84 for TV software to schedule stuff to record, 87 for home automation etc...

I never use DHCP for wired computers in the house, I always assign them non-rout-able IP's and plug all the info in manually. IP/gateway/DNS etc... so I always know where to direct stuff on the router. It is easy. I have many computers running many different things so you have to set it up that way with a router so it can direct things to the proper machine. Just make sure your firewalls are also open on the ports.

lexx wrote:
I've been looking at this more tonite. This might be the ticket to replace x10s. Heres what you can add to the kit:

HMEZ2010
So this increases the risk to buy one, at least as far as I can see. You can add alarm functions, temp and water sensors, 7 wired cameras, and 4 wireless I believe.. They HAVE lowlux night cameras, as well as wired ones for $30 each.

Looks like a sweet deal if you want to stretch its capabilities.

http://www.smarthomeusa.com/ShopByManufact.../Item/HMEZ2010/

I think that is the same camera that Cold posted about man. Looks exactly the same on the surface 😉
Maybe a different model. The receiver and cameras have the same shells.