Fxguy wrote:PIR motion sensors are a lot more selective, and for vehicles, buried mag sensors are the only way to go if you've got dogs, cats, deer, and so forth also roaming around.
So do you have the PIR sensor trigger the camera to record then? Also got my Pi today and working on getting it setup for Beacon.
Correct; Using Berts Plugins->Security camera to capture 1 second interval images from all my external security cameras(and incidentally shrink the hires images to the point where Prism doesn'tt complain about serving them to a refreshing URL) . When the Driveway sensor trips, I call record Driveway camera on that camera to save the last 30 images, wait 30 seconds and record again. This gets me 30 1 second images before the sensor trips and another 30 1 second images after it does (catching folks coming or going). I have a Pi near each door and when any door opens while no tiles are present, I wait 15 seconds, then record whatever camera is covering that door, which gets me 15 seconds before and 15 seconds after... all immediately pushed over to Lyle's house via a script.