Re: webcam graber/uploader

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:14:53PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > I got a webacm the other day, and now that I've got it working I wanted to
> > put the images up on my webserver.
> > 
> > I looked at : http://www.aboutdebian.com/webcam.htm, and managed to make it
> > work with the Debian webcam package, but it just seems to stop working
> > after an hour or so. The webcam pprocess is still running, but no new
> > images are being ftp'd to the webserver. I even set up a script in
> > /etc/rc2.d to satrt this thing on boot.
> > 
> > Now obviously I could script something, and maybe I should, but I thought
> > I'd ask if there was a beteer Debian package to ry, firts?
> Hm I'm using vgrabbj, lftp, cron and a few very short shell scripts to
> grab the picture and upload it to my ftp server with ftps.
> 
> Donno if it helps you ...
> 

Thanks, vjgrab looks interesting. I've fot it working with camE at the
moment, but i'm not totally happy with the results. Which you can see at:

http://beachcave.net/webcam/live.html

So, if I can find a few minutes, I'll try vjgrab.

Thanks.
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