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BSS app iconLast weekend I sat down and built a surveillance system, including an iPhone webapp, for my apartment using my old iBook, an external iSight, the Webcam Software EvoCam and a set of scripts in AppleScript, PHP and some shell scripts.

The whole thing is pretty custom made but I’ll document it here anyway and with a basic understanding of the technology it should be fairly easy to reproduce with whatever hardware you have available. At the end of the post you’ll find a ZIP file with all the scripts I used in the setup.

The set up

  • The iBook has the iSight connected and pointed at the entrance door.
  • iBook is using MAMP to serve PHP scripts and produces some audible confirmation messages.
  • The iPhone webapp shows if the system is armed or not, can start or stop EvoCam, lists all the available surveillance videos and offers a link to the live video stream.
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Read on for the whole article with a detailed explanation of all components.
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justin.tv

This is really sick!
Justin is a guy from SF who decided to launch a site where he is streaming live video to the net 24/7.

I started Justin.tv because I thought it would awesome for people to see what it was like to be Justin.

…hmm, whatever!
Movies becoming reality and reality becoming a movie.

Right now it’s running for 22h, let’s see how long he can keep up 😉