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Internet Accessible Home Security Systems?

Posted by Cliff on from the monitoring-your-home-while-away-from-home dept.

PenguinRadio asks: "I'm about to embark on trip and while the thousands of dollars of computers are protected by a PIX firewall and whatnot from viruses, I'm now kind of wondering about the physical security of my 'server room' that I've built in my house. Basically, an Internet accessible burglar/fire alarm. Has anyone found a good residential security system that can be remotely checked or monitored from the other side of the world? I'd especially like the capability of look in on any security cameras (rather than setting up a simple webcam) and monitor any alarm logs. ADT and Brinks didn't seem to have anything readily visible on their website, and I'm not quite up for an X-10 version of a security system."

7 of 54 comments (clear)

  1. Why not X10? by user+no.+590291 · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least if nothing's happening while you're gone, you can scope the scantily clad chicks with the hidden "security" cameras :).

  2. PING! by Ieshan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have one configured to ping a webserver you operate every 30 minutes?

    If someone steals it, it'll stop pinging right quick...

    1. Re:PING! by zorkmid · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually ping works pretty well. I have nagios monitoring my home servers from work (home servers monitor work servers as well). It's set to SMS my cell whenever anything goes wrong.

      A few months ago nagios zotted my cell with system unreachable message. Called home and my GF told me she'd unplugged the power strip to plug in her Synthesizer. She proclaimed me "scary creepy" for knowing what she'd done only moments after she'd yanked the cable.

  3. Re:ahoy! (needed a subject) by Halfbaked+Plan · · Score: 2, Funny

    But you're wasting your precious uptime statistics.

    You can atone for your sins if you'll promise to put Slackware on an unused 486 box, leave it in the corner running, and report once in awhile what it's uptime had gotten to.

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    resigned
  4. I'm happy to help out . . . by Mordant · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just give me your home address, and I'll be happy to swing by and check out^H^H^H ^H^H^H^H^H check on those thousands of dollars of servers and PIXes you have lying around. ;>

  5. and in addition by TheDarkRogue · · Score: 2, Funny

    go to home depot, lowes, what ever, get a bunch of peices of wood, and a shitload of nails. put the nails through the wood and make spike boards and put them under your ground level accessable windows, so that if they break in though a window, you'll fuck them up and slow them down abit if they try to make off with anything.

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    (Score:0, Interesting)
  6. Re:oxymorons by Lordrashmi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did your kids not call you dad, but instead called you "Brother"? Perhaps "Big Brother"? :-)