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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

by Eric Faulkner, Tony Northrup
December 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 12, Watch Your House Across the Network
Wrapping Up
Even though this project used many different applications, setup was rea-
sonably straightforward, and the project itself has proved reliable over time.
This project shouldn’t require any maintenance other than the constant
patching required by IIS, which you can automate with Automatic Updates.
There are a few things, however, that might cause problems:
Unwelcome visitors discover your cameras.
Someone figures out how to hack your Perl script.
Interference from other 2.4GHz devices causes video quality to
degrade.
Bandwidth consumed by your video feed causes other services on your
network to slow down.
But overall, the risk from this project is fairly low, and the problems are not
severe.
Be sure to back up your computer so you don’t have to start over from
scratch if you have a hard disk failure. When backing up your system, be
sure to include the
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ directory and subdirectories, and
the contents of
C:\homehacking\.
Extensions
I have several ideas about different ways this project could be used:
A videoconferencing system could be built into a conference room,
allowing the viewer to switch between multiple camera angles.
You could implement the ultimate webcam, where two cameras are
pointed at you from different angles, and the third ...
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