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build help: motion activated security camera that sends an alert (and possibly a photo of the intruder) to my phone via email or text message.

e14 Contributor

Hello all. I am trying to build something like this for my father and he will not allow me to even purchase any parts until I can provide him with detailed plans and potential cost.  I am not very tech oriented but can follow directions.  I have an apple wifi system that connects to satellite internet.  The location of the sensor/camera would be less than 50' with a thick interior wall as the only barrier.  I have looked around the internet for something like this and have found various pieces of what I want but I do not know if I could successfully meld them together.  The only thing that came close used a sim card and then I might as well get one of those home security monitoring systems.  Thanks for any help!

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  • in reply to colecago

    Thanks for the help.  I have a couple of questions if that is ok.  Do I have to use the D-link website to get email notifications?  Will it take still pictures?  The operating system, it says it supports Mac OSX v. 10.4; does that mean 10.4 and up? because I have reciently upgraded my mac to 10.8 operating system.  I dont need the I phone app, but would like to know if it would send still images via email to any smart phone (mine is a blackberry), or is it just email notifications?  What is the camera's functionality without the d-link website connection?  Is it the website that sends the information to the user's phone?  Sorry if I seem rather stupid on these points, but I just need to understand.  Don't get me wrong, it looks like a great camera; but I dont need the ability of constant survailance.  I just need it active when someone is there (via motion detection) to take a picture, alert me via email or text (hopefully with a picture of the person [and no phone charges]), then shut off until it is activated again.  Thanks for bearing with me, and for your help!

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    No, they include software to view multiple cameras and record, and you can also view your cams through their website, but each camera has its own webserver so you just type in the ip address and port and set up the motion detection and email info. 

     

    I don't use the motion detection feature, I just use them as IP webcams which there are many viewer programs and apps out there when you want to look at them over the internet.  You'll need some networking knowledge to do that part though, with port forwarding, setting static ip's and such.