By Philip Churchill on January 25th, 2010
Video Surveillance with WHS
Jim Cheshire writes about his experiences in using video surveillance at home with software which is installed on his Windows Home Server.
Using a Sharx SCNC2607 camera and the LuxRiot surveillance DVR package, Jim has this package running on WHS as a service and client software on his PCs enabling him to record motion detected footage.
You can read the full details here.
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I suggest to use Vitamin D from http://www.VitaminDinc.com as the DVR package.
It works with most camera models, is relatively inexpensive (free for 1 or 2 cams) and is VERY good at detecting people / objects. It also runs as a service under Windows Home Server so there is no need to keep the admin account logged in.
The number of false positives is greatly reduced with this software.
Believe me, I tried them all.
@ Martijn Wismeijer.
Thanks a lot for the link!!!
How do you get it to run as a service? I tried but was not successful. Vitamin D is a pretty impressive piece of software…..
Unfortunately current versions of VitaminD do not run as a service very well. I therefore enabled auto-logon on the WHS units I run vitaminD on and run VitaminD on logon.
Works very well, since the server is located in a secured area, there is no problem having auto-logon enabled.
If you decide to logon manually, turn your windows-update to manual (not recommended!) or it will restart once a month after applying windows updates and VitaminD will stop.
To enable auto-logon, tweak your registry or use a program like system scheduler if you are not comfortable hacking the registry.