🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 5 Apr 1996 James@west.net wrote:

> First off, from my own experience with commercial security devices:
> 	You will want to take a 'clean' scan.  This is simply what the 
> room is SUPPOSED to look like.  Save it to some file that you keep.  
> Then write a program that calls the scaning program every so often (this 
> you would set by the program....every 5 minutes, 60 minutes, etc).
> Using the AREXX port, save the scan to a temp file.  Compare the two (the 
> temp scan with the clean scan) and see how different they are...  There 
> used to be a program on aminet to tell you, percentage wise, how similiar 
> two  images were.  Decide on how much difference is too much, and have 
> Arrex activate your terminal program, and call your other system, 
> uploading the temp file.  Also, have Arexx save the temp file to a 
> semi-permenant file.  Then, have Arrexx go about its business till its 
> time to go again.  

	This is great, but what if the dog comes into the room and knocks over
something big (resulting in alot of % diffrence), then the entire effect 
is messed. But this would work for a locked room (Or maybe if the clean pic
is updated every few  minutes)

> There is a commercial system like this for PC's that I looked at a few 
> years ago.  IT involved a video camera on a chip, and came with the 
> software.  We fooled around with it for a few days, but felt that the 
> image quality was to low, and the price was too high.  But it was fun 
> having a camera the size of a postage stamp!

	I should have made this clear before, this system is just for 
fun/remote monitoring of my room. I have a small black and white camera, 
and (now thankfully) an A2000 with Framegrabber (and Toaster in a few 
days). I want to be able to access pictures of my room from remote 
locations for fun, and maybe for a bit of security. 

	An extra I am thinking of adding is buying a Serial I/O card and 
connecting a photcell to it. I'll rig up a strong laser pointer to it, 
add a few mirrors and whenever one of the beams is broken then  the Amiga 
snaps a picture. 

	(I know this is begoining to get a bit off topic), does anyone 
know about the NETWORKING part of this application. I have 0 knowledge 
about Amiga and TCP. Is there any kind of PLIP (Notice, this is not SLIP, 
PLIP = parellel line interface protocol) software for Amigas?