Author Topic: web cam setup (Read 251 times)

Modas · « **on:** August 28, 2003, 02:15:22 PM »

Well, I've got a nine month old yellow lab (see avatar ) who has now gotten into his destructive stage.

His thing now is taking anything that isn't locked down on the counters and dumping/shreading it.

What I want to do is set up a web cam in the kitchen, that I can view from my computer at work. Then when he goes into the kitchen to do the "deed", I can yell at him over the internet

Anyone know how I might go about doing this???

Vulcan · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2003, 03:08:44 PM »

Webcam XP
Active Webcam
Homewatcher
TinCam

umm... not that I know much about webcam spy software...

Eagler · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2003, 03:16:38 PM »

webcam and answer machine with volume cranked wide open

Westy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2003, 03:53:29 PM »

Wouldn't it be easier (and you'll get faster results) to electrify the things you don't want him to mess with?

Just frog the hot lead from one item to another and place the return on damp towels laying on the floor.

Or if that makes you cringe put a motion detector on the wall so that whenever he comes into the kithcen it kicks off a recording of your voice screaming at him to get the hell out along with the vicious sound of a rolled up newspaper being smacked against a panel of wood.

midnight Target · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2003, 04:10:25 PM »

This reminds me of a funny and true story.

We had a collie when I was a kid. This dog loved to get up onto the patio planters and dig. One day my Dad (an electrical engineer) set up this large metal plate at the entrance to the patio, and hooked some wires to it. He told us all that he was going to keep the dog from ever digging again.

My mother was shocked, and asked Dad if the dog was going to be hurt. "No" Dad explained. "I've stepped down the amperage through ...yada yada.... the dog will be fine."

So he hooks it up, the dog steps onto the plate and ....

NEVER returned to the patio again. That collie even jumped 3 feet over all metal thresholds in the house.

Well fast forward to about 10 years ago. I had a female lab that loved digging in the flowers. I remembered my Dad's device and thought I could adapt it to a wire in front of the flower beds.

So I call Dad to ask him how he stepped down the amperage to make it safe for the dog.

He laughed for a long time before he fessed up. "I just ran a straight 110 line to the plate. If the dog died the dog died."