My mom is retired and goes on many vacation trips. Her house has been broken into 6 times where the neigbor hood she lives at. I live 30 miles away from her and offer to watch her house via internet. Now I want to know how can I set up a spy cam in the front yard facing the front house seeing all who come on the property? I am on a budget and need to know what to buy in order for me to open my laptop and check every so often. Also here are some things I found out about. a PC video capture that would go in to my laptop. A SSc-183 security camera SONY. Now how can both of those work. Will I need to have some kind of box that will link that camera to that PC video capture? Thank for your advice.
Not sure if this helps but you might be interested in a little application called Mugshot, which uses a webcam (or digital camera) as a security camera –
http://www.nimisis.com/projects/mugshot.php