Video Surveillance of your tank?

[d2mini]

Hi all, I want to set up a wireless video camera near my tank. Somewhat to keep an eye on things if I go out of town or whatever, but mostly just to be able to allow anyone to view my tank at any time. What would be the easiest/best way to go about this? I'm a mac user if that matters, and we have wireless in the house through our Mac Airport network. And I'm not very network savvy but can figure it out if I have clear instructions.
I was looking at something like this
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/Cameras
but really don't have much idea of what I'm looking at or what would be best to use and easiest to setup.

Thanks!

 

[BlueCorn]

I use a product called SecuritySpy http://www.securityspy.com/ and a couple of network cameras but it also works with standard USB cameras.

 

[5Starreef]

I am using Panasonic

http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-...as/model.BB-HCM580A_11002_7000000000000005702

Very good quality and zoom, and fast over internet

 

[d2mini]

Thanks. Can anyone view your tank if you want, or do you have to be logged in?

 

[Tremont]

I used the non pan/tilt version of the panasonic network camera - it worked great and was less than 100 bucks. You can setup a login protected webserver to login and view your tank as well as having it send you emails with pictures of your tanks. You could even have it upload a picture to an FTP server a couple times a day which could be used to generate a low quality time lapse of your tank growth. Because it is a network camera, it doesn't require that you even have any computers in your house on at the time.

 

[thepenalty]

I've bought cheap 2mp Canyon web camera (for around 30$) and did a setup with WebcamXP (the free version). If you don't mind the buggy software, it can do the job.
The obvious benefit is that from my office i can check what's going on in the tank at home and also be informed when the cleaning lady changes her clothes. :lol2:
As i said, it costs me 30 bucks, but you can do a test if you happen to have web camera lying around.

 

[reefboy1994]

th link you had to the linksys one is on ebay for around $50 new