gabmus / diy-home-surveillance

DIY webcam-driven home surveillance system

diy-home-surveillance

DIY webcam-driven home surveillance system

Copyright (C) 2015 Gabriele Musco

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

#Installation instructions for Linux

• git clone this repository

• make sure you have qt, espeak and fswebcam installed in your system

• also make sure you have a functioning webcam since it's the one key part of this software

• cd into the project root folder

• run the following commands:

  qmake imagecompare-qt

  make

• finally make sure "monitor" has execution permissions (chmod +x monitor)

#Usage

You can launch the program by executing "monitor" in a terminal. It will start monitoring everything your webcam sees and will trigger the "intruder alert" repeated message until it's closed by pressing ctrl+c in the terminal. At this point the program is stopped and the photo of the intruder is saved in the root folder of the program.

#Notes

I started this project as a hobby, as now I don't plan on doing anything more with it. I am not responsable for the use you may make of it. Also, making it open source is a key part of the project, since you can adapt it to your specific needs and let it do whatever you want it to.