[TriLUG] Interior security camera

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

Years ago, back when I was in school, I worked in a retail music store.
We noticed that started coming up short periodically, usually $5 or $10
and it occurred to me that we had recently introduced a new employee to
running the register and that it was happening when he was on duty.

The next morning, I was scheduled to work with this employee and I made
sure that I rang the register during the morning.  Just before lunch
time, I sent him out to go get change and while he was gone I balanced
the cash drawer.  When he returned, I told him I was going to lunch and
made sure to take an extra long one.  When I came back, the first thing
I did was balance the drawer again. Low and behold, it was exactly $5
short when it had been dead on before.  He saw me doing this and smiled
at me, but we never spoke of it.

He was fired the next day. 

Instead of a camera, are there any 'low tech' solutions, such as I did
above, that you could employ?

On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 12:17 -0400, C TC via TriLUG wrote:
> The Pi w/camera in a DIY "book" enclosure sounds like a win here.
> 
> Just a note on this situation. Dealt with this a couple of decades
> back;
> while part-owning a bar. We told everyone that the till seemed short
> a few
> times and if it didn't add up correctly (+/- $1.00) twice .. they
> risked
> losing a job.
> In the end, we saved a bunch of $ by hiring a new cashier, instead of
> buying
> a camera setup.
> 
> 
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> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Grawburg via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.
> org>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The Pi is a consideration, my only concern was whether or not the
> > camera
> > has high enough definition. I have enough experience with the Pi
> > (I'd use a
> > Pi 3) to set it up.  The problem we are facing is that we think one
> > of the
> > cashiers is skimming money and can't prove it without
> > evidence.  Finding a
> > suitable enclosure will be the next issue.
> > 
> > Brian Grawburg
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Roger" <RogerB at bronord.com>
> > To: "Grawburg" <grawburg at myglnc.com>, "Triangle Linux Users Group
> > General
> > Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Date: 07/28/16 11:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Interior security camera
> > 
> > Think about raspberry Pi. The III's have built-in camera support
> > and an
> > I'd expect that the add-on camera is inexpensive. I posted a link
> > recently
> > on the list for a $57 mit, with a discount code, via lifehacker.com
> > /
> > Amazon.You could probably even put together a player on it to play
> > soothing
> > music for the cashier and customers! But, I'm not sure that I would
> > want to
> > be your cashier, being watched every moment!
> > 
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