video surveillance with freebsd

[vittorio]

Alle 01:06, domenica 04 settembre 2005, nbco ha scritto:
> On Friday 03 June 2005 23:56, vittorio wrote:
> > The aim: with up to 4 small cameras connected to a pci board in a
> > freebsd 5.4 box, scattered suitably around to guard, surveille a
> > seaside resort flat *** remotely ***. The open-source software I'm
> > looking for should: 1) manage the pci board & the cameras;
> > 2) start,trigger a script for, e.g., a gsm connection to transmit
> > images to a remote server via ppp  OR start an alarm *** whener a
> > motion is detected ***.
> >
> > Is there any software in the ports satisfying these requirements?
> >
> > Ciao
> > Vittorio
>
> Hhmmm I used to have a landlord like that...
> .nbco

Amusing but that isn't actually my purpose! 
Actually I was speaking of using some anti-burglar device for our  little 
family house house at the seaside resort placing in the garden cameras 
"sensitive" to people moving in it when my family and I are absent, that is 
10.5 months per year.
Asking around for (anti-burglar)  alarm systems they asked me a mere fortune. 
Having a spare old pentium and a much older  would like to use it for the same 
purpose but a very cheap price.
That's all!
Any idea........?
Vittorio