audio monitoring program

[permitivity]

Motion is great as a video monitor. Is there an equivalent for an audio monitor?

I'd like a program to send me an email or something when it detects audio greater than X decibels. Like if the water alarm goes off or something.

The USB webcam I'm using already has a microphone.

[permitivity]

Bump! Still looking for a way to monitor sound and run a script on audio detection.

[permitivity]

Maybe I'm the only one interested in sound detection.

I found this related "Motion" project. It looks like what I wanted (audio detection), but I'm too much of a Linux newbie to know how to install this:

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/ ... ndDetector

1) How do you install some of the dependencies with development headers? He lists: libvorbis, libogg, portaudio, boost, but I don't know what it means to "install with development headers".

2) g++ will compile the main.cpp code into executable, right?

3) there doesn't appear to be a command I can run when sound is detected. It just records the sound. Can I change the .cpp file before compiling to hard code some kind of action, like run a script that is in my system?

TIA

[moonman]

Just install dependencies, headers are included in paxkages in Arch alinux. You can add a syscall to run your script when an action is triggered with system ("./yourscript.sh") (i think..) google around

[permitivity]

I post here a lot with newbie questions, and you're a big help. Thanks.