I just got a spam from telephonydepot (which I invited to spam me, so I guess I have to call it legit marketing :) ), and they have some new device that is meant to be a surveillance camera with audio, but the interface is POE and SIP! A cool idea. Anyone playing with this toy yet? I am trying to wrap my head around how asterisk might fit with the model of this camera being "recorded" 24x7 with a continuous video/audio stream. Does asterisk even support recording video streams? Cheers, j
On Friday 03 April 2009 16:41:34 Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:> I just got a spam from telephonydepot (which I invited to spam me, so I > guess I have to call it legit marketing :) ), and they have some new > device that is meant to be a surveillance camera with audio, but the > interface is POE and SIP! A cool idea. Anyone playing with this toy yet? > > I am trying to wrap my head around how asterisk might fit with the model > of this camera being "recorded" 24x7 with a continuous video/audio stream. > Does asterisk even support recording video streams?Yes, Asterisk supports recording video streams, although the format might be a little weird. Most of the recorded video formats are merely frame dumps, meant only for Asterisk to requeue to another destination. They are not generally useful otherwise. I'm also not sure how well it'd work with continuous streams. There's also no support for transcoding of video, so what is streamed is what is kept. -- Tilghman
Me too. Would it be you can dial it like a phone and get the video/audio from the? Co-advertised phone? We have an alarm system. Perhaps on alarm, we could dial and see the premises? Or the popular day care cam use. Or any "dial and see" application? Cary -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:42 PM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Grandstream surveillance devices I just got a spam from telephonydepot (which I invited to spam me, so I guess I have to call it legit marketing :) ), and they have some new device that is meant to be a surveillance camera with audio, but the interface is POE and SIP! A cool idea. Anyone playing with this toy yet? I am trying to wrap my head around how asterisk might fit with the model of this camera being "recorded" 24x7 with a continuous video/audio stream. Does asterisk even support recording video streams? Cheers, j _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:> I just got a spam from telephonydepot (which I invited to spam me, so I > guess I have to call it legit marketing :) ), and they have some new > device that is meant to be a surveillance camera with audio, but the > interface is POE and SIP! A cool idea. Anyone playing with this toy yet?Isn't think just their GXV3000 video phone? There are some menu options for video surveillance mode, but I've never used them. I think the phone just streams to an IP address. My own one is set to auto-answer, so people who call it know if I'm in or not... I have half a dozen of these in the field - all friends & family use though. I see they have a new models out too. (and the price has gone up )-:> I am trying to wrap my head around how asterisk might fit with the model > of this camera being "recorded" 24x7 with a continuous video/audio stream. > Does asterisk even support recording video streams?I'm able to leave video+voice mail on an extension and Record() records video plus audio. I did ask about video+audio on hold a while back, don't think that's in yet. I think it's pretty good what they're squeezing into the devices - the early software wasn't without issues (like most Grandstream stuff), but the current s/w has been very usable and stable for 6 months or so now. Gordon