USB Camera

The camera

Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910

Shows up as

[ 392.407890] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0821)
[ 392.420616] input: UVC Camera (046d:0821) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/u

sb1/1-3/1-3.1/1-3.1:1.2/input/input6

/dev/video0

The software

Cheese and VLC are two of my favorites for testing the camera to confirm it works.

ffmpeg is supposed to be good too.

Motion is supposed to do what I want - monitor a camera for movement and record movies if it sees something.

Zoneminder is web - based and very complicated.

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libmp3lame-dev libjpeg8-dev libavcodec-dev
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql mysql-client apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install zoneminder