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iCam Support / feature: on motion of Cam2 and/or sound of Cam3, enable 5min record on ALL Cams

« on: July 28, 2011, 10:03:16 PM »

I have run into this before with surveillance and would think this solution could be implemented in iCam fairly easily.  Scenario:
Cam1: watches the street, lots of movement and shadows all day long which trigger false motion.
Cam2: watches the door.  only set off when someone actually comes to the door, or occasionally headlights or shadows.
Cam3: watches inside.  only set off when someone is inside, but would hear doorbell or knocking.

It would be really cool to have iCamSource not motion enable Cam1 at all, and then have some cool logic, or even AI, to watch and listen to Cam2 and Cam3 and record enable ALL Cams for a period of time (again, AI would be useful), if any triggers went off.

Just brainstorming, but I think there is something here.  Thanks!

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iCam Support / 3 iCams on one iMac not working (2 cams, 3 cams, 2 or 3 iSight cameras) firewire

« on: July 27, 2011, 02:16:48 AM »

I have 1) internal iSight0, 2) firewire iSight1, 3) firewire iSight2.  All of the iSights come and go in iCamSource with apparent randomness, although the internal iSight0 seems to be the most reliable and only fails about 50% of the time.  The other two are failing 75%-100% or more of the time.  I get the error on my iPhone:
"
Source Connection Error
One or more of the iCamSources
returned by the iCam Broker Server
could not be connected to.
"

The iCams also do not display very reliably within iCamSource's Preferences panel.  i.e. when I click on each camera in the list the setup screen changes, but the video displayed is a frozen frame of either the camera in question, or iSight0.  

Sometimes unplugging and replugging the cameras gets them re-recognized by iCamSource, but that's unacceptable as a long-distance surveillance system.  This needs to get a LOT more robust to be viable.

I have tried using just ONE camera at a time, and everything works flawlessly for each camera, as long as it is the only one in iCamSource's Cameras list.

No other apps are running that access any of the cameras.


Aside: is there some way to REMOTELY reboot iCamSource, so if it freezes up while I'm half-way around the world I can get it running again?