Originally Posted by
dagwag77
This might not be as "out of the box" elegant as the dropcam, but it may suit a power user a bit more: Pickup some foscam cameras and blueiris dvr software which can record, set up customizable motion detectors and alerts (email, sms, etc).
Yeah, the motion package available on most Linux distros works well for this sort of thing, but didn't seem like what the OP was looking for.