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[users@httpd] Web camera...
I would like to implement a 'web cam' thing on my site. Have a page
that shows continual scenes - or at least occasional snapshots - and
if anyone has any help regarding how to do this I'd appreciate it.
It seems to me at the moment that on the one hand I must set the
camera up to automatically take snapshots every so often and on the
other write a script that keeps picking up those snapshots, deleting
the used ones, and displaying them... but exactly how to do that...
and is that the right way....
regards,
david hawcroft
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Re: [users@httpd] Web camera...
Posted by david hawcroft <ab...@yahoo.com>.
Thankyou David...
No, I'm not looking for anything very complicated or more
'complete' - I think what you've done is a greater thing than I'm
attempting.
For instance: How'd you get the webcam to automatically FTP to the
Linux box? Not that I need to do this, but I'm interested, I don't
know how to do it..
And then: I haven't worked with Unix for nearly ten years and I
never did all that much then... I don't know what 'crontab' is.
I should have mentioned in the post that my platform is Win2000.
And I've followed your method of responding - I've replied to you
with CC to the mailing list. I wondered about this - what's the
protocol? How should we best do it? Is it really considered good form
for each reply to keep the whole content of the thread?
regards,
david hawcroft
--- David Tonhofer <d....@m-plify.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's what I did. The Webcam was on a PC and FTPed snapshots
> to a Linux box. A little Perl script did the rest, i.e. create
> a web page which displayed the images. Nothing complicated.
> You have to run the script in the directory to which you upload
> the Webcam image and run it after each upload using a crontab
> entry.
>
> But maybe you are looking for something more complete..
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- David
>
>
>
>
> --On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:52 PM -0700 david hawcroft
> <ab...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I would like to implement a 'web cam' thing on my site. Have a
> page
> > that shows continual scenes - or at least occasional snapshots -
> and
> > if anyone has any help regarding how to do this I'd appreciate
> it.
> >
> > It seems to me at the moment that on the one hand I must set the
> > camera up to automatically take snapshots every so often and on
> the
> > other write a script that keeps picking up those snapshots,
> deleting
> > the used ones, and displaying them... but exactly how to do
> that...
> > and is that the right way....
> >
> > regards,
> > david hawcroft
> >
> >
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Re: [users@httpd] Web camera...
Posted by David Tonhofer <d....@m-plify.com>.
Hi,
That's what I did. The Webcam was on a PC and FTPed snapshots
to a Linux box. A little Perl script did the rest, i.e. create
a web page which displayed the images. Nothing complicated.
You have to run the script in the directory to which you upload
the Webcam image and run it after each upload using a crontab
entry.
But maybe you are looking for something more complete..
Best regards,
-- David
--On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:52 PM -0700 david hawcroft
<ab...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to implement a 'web cam' thing on my site. Have a page
> that shows continual scenes - or at least occasional snapshots - and
> if anyone has any help regarding how to do this I'd appreciate it.
>
> It seems to me at the moment that on the one hand I must set the
> camera up to automatically take snapshots every so often and on the
> other write a script that keeps picking up those snapshots, deleting
> the used ones, and displaying them... but exactly how to do that...
> and is that the right way....
>
> regards,
> david hawcroft
>
>
> __________________________________________________
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> Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes
> http://finance.yahoo.com
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Re: [users@httpd] Web camera...
Posted by "J. Greenlees" <ja...@shaw.ca>.
>
>
> I would like to implement a 'web cam' thing on my site. Have a page
>that shows continual scenes - or at least occasional snapshots - and
>if anyone has any help regarding how to do this I'd appreciate it.
>
>It seems to me at the moment that on the one hand I must set the
>camera up to automatically take snapshots every so often and on the
>other write a script that keeps picking up those snapshots, deleting
>the used ones, and displaying them... but exactly how to do that...
>and is that the right way....
>
yup, and you can get javascript for doing so on several sites. it isn't
a server item it is scripting for the website.
javacam has the software that will run your cam for you on your site.
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