Security camera installation underway / Museum report (Saturday)
Yesterday was a good one for us. Martin and Neil installed four dome-style security cameras on our museum ceiling. We may install two more to get clearer images of the long aisles. They worked a full day from about 9AM through 5PM. Martin tested the cameras on a bench before installing them. Neil and I put an observation monitor on the side of the network rack facing the docent's desk. Dan J. also helped with the monitor by using CDL's drill press to create some cable management in one of the rack side panels. :) That monitor will display live video from each camera in a separate window. This was part 1 of the camera installation. Part 2 will happen on Saturday, March 2, when we run all the cabling (it's PoE) through the attic. Martin will also revamp our main Cisco switch configuration. (There is a temporary switch sitting on top of the rack. We used it for testing. That's going away.) Part 3, schedule TBD, will be installation of a network video recorder. Our goal is to record whenever we're open to the public and also whenever it senses motion during non-open hours. We also had about 15 visitors in several groups yesterday. They all seemed to be very interested. Jeff B. pointed out today that I didn't sweep up the sawdust from when we drilled holes for the camera mounts ... sorry man. My mistake.
On 2/17/19 4:20 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Jeff B. pointed out today that I didn't sweep up the sawdust from when we drilled holes for the camera mounts ... sorry man. My mistake.
Ooops, sorry, I meant to clean that up before we left. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 5:33 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 2/17/19 4:20 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Jeff B. pointed out today that I didn't sweep up the sawdust from when we drilled holes for the camera mounts ... sorry man. My mistake.
Ooops, sorry, I meant to clean that up before we left.
Neil & Martin, I appreciate and thank you for the security camera installation! It has been on the VCF to-do list for a while and I feel very important to our museum for security reasons. The mess isn't a big deal, but I was only annoyed that I wasn't alerted to it before arriving because I was expecting the usual setting up for being docent and not a cleanup which takes more time. Lucky for me Tony and Adam were there early and cleaned it up before I arrived and told me about it. Thanks Tony and Adam!
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