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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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Part I: Home Automation
I chose IDS for this project because it’s easy to set up and doesn’t require any
configuration. However, if you want to do it, it is very configurable; just point
your browser at http://localhost:tcp_port/cgi-bin/ids/admin/index.cgi. For more
detailed control over the configuration, read the IDS documentation. At the very
least, you should password-protect the admin pages.
Figure 3-17. The pet monitor works!
Spend a few minutes customizing
IDS’s interface by visiting the admin
pages at http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/ids/
admin/index.cgi, and you can set up
a pretty slick frontend. Figure 3-17
shows the current setup of my pet
monitor interface. IDS is very con-
figurable, so if you’re not happy with
some aspect of it, you can probably
change it. Refer to the documenta-
tion for more information.
Wrapping Up
In addition to allowing you to
enjoy your vacation without worry-
ing about your pet, this project has
accomplished several other useful
things:
Implemented intelligent, wire-
less video monitoring through-
out your home.
Connected your home (and your
pet) to the Internet.
Enabled remote monitoring of your home.
Enabled your computer to respond to movement throughout your
house.
If you’ve positioned the motion detectors and cameras well, you can safely
leave the script running even when you’
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