Set-up a Ubuntu webcam security system

Have you ever wanted to spy see on what is going on in your home while you are away? Motion is a piece of open source software that acts as a motion detector. It enables you to set-up a webcam server that you can have all your cameras connected too, so you can view them remotely and also upload them to a remote server. Motion should run on most linux distributions but for this exercise I’m using the desktop version of Ubuntu linux.

Requirements

• Extra computer that we’ll use as the server.
• Distro of linux installed on the server. (Recommended, Ubuntu)
• USB webcam with a linux driver
• Static IP set for the server
• General knowledge of Linux like OS’s.
• A bit of free time

Step One

Okay lets start off by downloading the linux driver for your webcam. This great man wrote a single driver that is compatible with…