Whole house media and security for home automation control?

Hi,

Can you confirm the web cams that you are using please?

The ones avaliable outside that you have showing the rain i assume are waterproof?

Sorry guys I have not been updating on this thread. On Dec 23, 11:40pm there was gunshots that rang out and two of them hit my home. There is video and the police department is currently reviewing it. Never do you believe something will happen until it does.

on the webcams I have been lucky. That particular cam is a fusion. It has worked down to 27 deg to over 123...Though I do have it mounted properly to avoid water .

ok....so im very familiar with webcam xp as i have used it for a few years now, what id like to know is how you make the alerts pop-up, also how do you make the alerts pop-up on all networked xbmc installs.

I have a relatively simple setup, i have a win xp pro machine as my main file server, shared directories are added to the separate instances of xbmc. i have another xp pro machine that is my dvr for webcam xp.

i have downloaded and installed both eventghost and winautomation, and i'm beginning to familiarize myself with their usage.

exactly how do i use these to make the pop up appear. i'm fine with the way yours looks and am happy with the size.

i also have a FIFO usb 4 relay board (made by denkovi) that i'd like to use to turn on lights when either motion is detected or the doorbell is pressed.

with that in mind i'm extremely interested in how you accomplished the usb doorbell....
i'm on an extremely tight budget, but i know i have the components to make this work.


email me and let me know or post here for others as well....as im sure a few are interested in a bit more detail.
Thanks in advance,
-Tim
iloomin8@gmail.com

Sure no problem I apologize for the late response been very busy . What parts are you getting hung up on....first page explains alot but I am willing to answer your specific questions in better detail since theres many ways to integrate security cams with XBMC.

Simple one cam popup:

Download and Setup Filezilla ftp server (its free) on your xp machine/file server. Remember your ip and I hope its static and not dhcp.

Setup a "campics" folder in the ftp server and give it a username/password.

In webcam xp goto the ftp tab and input the details to your ftp server you just setup. Once its done click a test and you should see it upload successfully,if it didnt you need to troubleshoot.

On the server create a security root folder under it create an archive folder,a xbmccam folder, and a securitycams folder.

On the security tab in webcamxp also setup motion activated snapshots setup your zone..in the smaller window you should see ftp upload along with other options like sms just check the box ftp for now and save.

In winautomation create a self executable batchfile which takes the cam snapshot which has date and time included on the end of the filename. Setup the batch to copy all files in campics folder to the archive and xbmccam folder. Set the batch to rename any files in xbmccam folder to cam1.jpg and so forth for more cams.

Create another batch file which deletes all files in xbmccam folder.

In Eventghost:

use Xbmc plugin and directory watcher
create macros to watch campics directory.created so when theres a jpeg in there eventghost will run the self execuable batch file.

Add another directory.created watcher this time on xbmccam folder. Setup xbmc plugin popup window and put whatever message you would like the popup to have such as "motion alert". You should be able to test it and there should be a popup in xbmc.
In the same macro after the popup setup it up to run the delete batchfile you created earlier.

On your xbmc box map the server share to a drive letter. ie. F:/security


then modify dialogkai.xml in the xbmc program files folder and add the drive/directory/filname ex: F:/security/xbmccam/cam1.jpg

If you want a larger pic you will need to modify more in the xml file.

In Xbmc running add the F:/security/securitycams directory
in that directory add .pls files to every cam stream. You should be able to watch your cams in xbmc now.

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Technically you should be able see a popup window and when your cam gets activated it should happen automatically. You should also be able to watch any camera stream.

Im sure you will have some more question just let me know what parts you need help on.

Good Day