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You can purchase a lowend IR enabled camera for around $80.  Go with a 
video capture card (without tv tuner, around $20) and a standalone 
camera with rca or s-video input.  rca cameras are easier to find, both 
CompUSA and Frys carry them.

Get your hands on 'motion.'  It's a software package that does motion 
detection on v4l compliant hardware.  I've got one set up on my 
driveway.  I know when the garbage is picked up, when my wife get's home 
and most importantly, whether or not I need to answer the door when 
someone pulls up in the driveway.

I set another up at our Church.  We had problems with vandals.  I placed 
a camera in the main hall of the building they were breaking into. 
Connected to a headless P200, sitting in the top of the pantry.

Bear in mind the low end ir cameras have a limited distance, but you 
could simply strap a light up there.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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