eLViS: Linux Video Surveillance
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Linux Video Surveillance AKA eLViS provides a user interface for watching motion frames captured by the motion program as JPEG files. eLViS lets you view up to four motion threads and has a simple configuration panel to setup the motion.conf file and eLViS configurations.

eLViS is intended to be used as a low cost security monitoring system. For that reason we have chosen Linux for the high reliability and flexible licensing of software.

We recommend that you use eLViS on a standalone Linux system that is dedicated to this task.
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Version:
Stable 0.2.13

Unstable 0.3.x

Patches

Change log

Feature list:
  • VCR like controls, rewind, stop, play, fast forward
  • Multiple camera view from 1 to 4 cameras ( more are planned)
  • Configuration panel to setup eLViS and the motion program
  • Automatic image scaling
  • Daemon script starts motion
  • Yes it does support color video. I only have B&W cameras right now
How to use:
This is changing as people email me with bug reports and feature requests.
At the time this was written the OSG Installer found below works great and on Mandrake 10 eLViS is installed and running in just a few minutes.
  1. Install a video capture card
  2. Install Linux ( Mandrake 10 works painlessly )
  3. Connect a camera to your capture card
  4. Run the OSG Installer for lvs
  5. Run "/usr/local/bin/lvs.elf"
  6. Go to the config tab and set your path and any other settings you need
  7. Start the motion daemon by running "/etc/init.d/motiond start"
Known Issues:
I cannot test more then one camera at this time. Multiple cameras may not work.

The motiond script does not always start the daemon. Recommend that you add a line to your /etc/crontab file to start the daemon every five minutes like so
*/5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/motiond.bsh
The script keeps track of the motion PID and will only start it if it is not already running.

Do-to:
Add CD-R burning of selected range of images
Extend the number of cameras to a dynamic array
Automatic loading of new frames

License & Copyright:
Unless otherwise stated all files are copyright of there respective authors and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
eLViS is licensed under the GNU GPL and Copyright© Silicon Tao Technology Systems Inc. 2004
   
Support

Downloads:
Downloads that do not use the OSG Installer will also need the motion source.

Contact:
Roy Souther <roy@SiliconTao.com>


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Video view
Multi Cam

Config panel

Controls On / Controls Off



Older versions

eLViS 0.1.x


Running eLViS and XawTV at the same time
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OSG Installer
The latest stable version of eLViS can be installed using the OSG Installer in one simple command.

The OSG Installer is an easy to use software installer from the Open Support Guild that can automatically download and compile programs and their dependencies.

To use this OSG Installer to install eLViS simply open a terminal and su to root then copy and paste this command into you terminal program.
wget http://osgi.OsGuild.com/osgi.sh -O - | sh -s lvs

For more information about the OSG Installer please visit http://osgi.OsGuild.com.

Requirements
To run the OSG Installer and install eLViS you will need the following software installed. Different versions of Linux will have slightly different names for these.