This is a page for me to wiki notes about the security cameras i am setting up at my house.

I have a 4 channel swann capture card and 2 cameras to connect, and possibly looking at using a webcam i have lying around spare also.

ZoneMinder? (http://www.zoneminder.com) is the first option of software to setup, and motion (http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome) as a backup plan if i cant get zoneminder to play nice.

both use Video4Linux sources for capture, so this will be the first mission. the only experience i have with this previously is a small amount of playing with MythTV

Currently i cannot find linux drivers for this card (swann dvr 4), I have emailled the chipet manufacturers and swann.. however have not received any response yet. I will chase this up, so far i cannot recommend this card as it seems to be an unsupported chipset under linux. I will post more information when i find any more. it works under windows, however the windows software doesnt seem to be as advanced as zoneminder.