Bit offtopic but still worth mentioning for future reference is that when you count seconds out loud, start from 21.<p>What it does is this ensures the numbers are closer to 1 second duration because the amount of time it takes to mention the 2-3 syllables whereas the early ones { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 } are merely 1 syllable.<p>Why 21 and not 13? Its an easy to remember number (just add 20 to your starting count), and the second part of the number is still accurate.<p>Don't believe me? Feel free to verify with a stopwatch.<p>I learned this from driving lessons in NL. Based on some quick translation abracadabra it seems to equally apply to English.<p>(NB: To be precise, 9 would be 2 syllables in Dutch while its only 1 syllable in English. Other languages will vary!)
I've been using MotionEyeOS for several months now. I setup a a couple of Pi3's with some cheap Logitech USB webcams. Works great from inside the house - I used velcro to tape the cameras pointing out from various windows around the house and in the garage.<p><a href="https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos</a><p>I am looking for something that will work outside and has night vision though.
Or use old cell phones: <a href="http://www.cloxmonkey.com/securitysystem.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cloxmonkey.com/securitysystem.html</a><p>The "bad ESN" LG's mentioned in the article appear to be $15 including shipping now; you can get a lot more for the $35 cost of a zero + camera module.<p>The Android app mentioned does not appear to specifically try to be compatible with the Echo Show yet.
I've toyed around with a couple of these for use as baby cams -- mostly streaming the video feed over RTSP using VLC as the server. The video feed always works well, but I've never been able to get the audio from a usb mic to transmit using this method. The last time I googled about the topic, it didn't look like anyone else had had much success adding audio to the stream.<p>Does anyone know of any RaspberryPi projects that have succefully integrated audio into the video feed?
I set up an RPI camera without any of the echo stuff:
<a href="https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=motion" rel="nofollow">https://blog.thekyel.com/?anchor=motion</a><p>It was fairly easy, but there were a few gotchas. It does a pretty good job, but I do get some false-positives with changes in light.<p>Now that I see this project, I really need to put a video together showing how mine works....
Nice hack, but the 80s called and wants to popularize a low latency analog system.<p>I just don't like the 6 second lag for security applications.