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Mark Jose wrote: > it might be worth emailing the guy who runs the webcam at Saltash Community > School - they have a 24/7 cam running there which used to watch a pig and her > piglets but now watches sheep and lambs in an enclosure - which sounds > similar to what you are after. They may be able to supply some ideas. From > memory, they used an Axis webcam - not cheap but very good! I second that. I run about a dozen of them, 205s, 206s, 207w's and 211's. They are part of our cctv system (Running on Zoneminder - *extremely* good software), being recording both with motion detection and and 24/7 on spooled hdd's. The same cameras are also available to see from the intranet on a big multi-pane view using firefox (which supports streamed mjpeg video with just <img> tags), /and/ two of them are pushed to the big wide world at: http://www.mareandfoal.org/webcam (the slow updates are merely a consideration of our 256k upstream, they will feed at 30fps if you have the bandwidth) I didn't mention them at the beginning of this thread as these are "proper" IP Cameras rather than webcams. They are a fully independant camera, computer and webserver (running on linux, actually :) ), but obviously don't require a computer nearby to plug into. The big difference is £120+ vs <£20 for a usb webcam... If anyone has any questions about IP cameras or cctv stuff, I've learned quite a bit in the past couple of years of using them. The Zoneminder forums and wiki are also a very useful resource. fwiw, Gadspot are cheaper and "mostly ok" but Axis really are the best ip cameras you can buy. It helps if somebody else is footing the bill though... Many of the cheap and nasty end are simply awful and won't provide a jpg or mjpeg feed that cctv software requires, instead preferring to use activeX wrappers and restrict the user to single view Internet Explorer ONLY. Axis cams typically support 20 simultaneous connections, have proved to be very reliable and have good support. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html