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Any generic webcam works well with RPi I think. I've got an old microsoft one, and all it took to start taking pictures with it was to download a package someone had written. I was looking into motion detection too and again, it looks as easy as downloading the package and configuring it. (I think the package I was reading about is called 'motion')
Are you particularly interested in turning the webcam off while you're at home? Or just stopping it taking photos when it detects motion?
I think I've read somewhere that a fairly easy way to do all of this remotely is to host some kind of webpage on the Pi, and send it requests from any browser, which it interprets and acts upon. No idea of the details of that though.