Camera as a sensor

[Mickey]

@Moshe-Livne said:

@Mickey how quickly do they boot up? might boot it when pir is triggered.

I thought about it but openwrt is a full linux and it takes 15-20 seconds to boot up so it will be half a minute delay between trigger and response

[bjornhallberg]

Speaking of battery powered cameras, there already are commercial products such as Arlo and Homeboy:
http://www.cnet.com/products/netgear-arlo-smart-home-security-kit/
http://www.cnet.com/products/homeboy/
Not cheap enough, and battery times will surely vary depending on use, but they are a nice proof of concept.

[Moshe Livne]

@Mickey they are so small!!!!

[Mickey]

@Moshe-Livne said:

@Mickey they are so small!!!!

what is so small?

[Moshe Livne]

the tiny 3g routers from aliexpress. just got one. do you happen to have the openwrt firmware pre-compiled?

[Mickey]

which one exactly did you buy?

[Moshe Livne]

@Mickey http://www.aliexpress.com/item/LYNEW-Portable-Mini-Wireless-wifi-Router-3G-4G-Hotspot-Wifi-Hotspot-support-3G-USB-modems/32257312139.html

[Mickey]

@Moshe-Livne said:

@Mickey http://www.aliexpress.com/item/LYNEW-Portable-Mini-Wireless-wifi-Router-3G-4G-Hotspot-Wifi-Hotspot-support-3G-USB-modems/32257312139.html

start from here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/unbranded/a5-v11

[Moshe Livne]

Been there.... just wasn't keen on compiling it. Oh well.

[Mickey]

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[Mickey]

@Moshe-Livne said:

Been there.... just wasn't keen on compiling it. Oh well.

https://github.com/sternlabs/RT5350F-cheap-router/tree/master/openwrt

http://www.digitalinferno.com/wiki/attach/Mini3G4GUSBRouterOpenWrtExternalUSB/openwrt-ramips-rt305x-a5-v11-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

https://www.digitalinferno.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Mini3G4GUSBRouterOpenWrtExternalUSB

[Moshe Livne]

@Mickey Thanks. will give it a try!