Re: webcam troubles
2005/9/14, Sven Hoexter <sven@timegate.de>:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Jon Roed wrote:
> > i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work. I
> > managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get
> > no picture, and an error that says:
> >
> > ftp: lost connection
> > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec
> > ftp: lost connection
> > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 10 sec
> > ftp: lost connection
> > ftp: connect failed, sleeping 20 sec
> >
> > and it just keeps doing that. I think it's because my ftp port (port 21) is
> > closed. How do i open it ? or at least allow this traffic
> After reading the description for the package webcam I guess that
> webcam tries to upload to a default ftp server which might be localhost.
> So you can configure webcam to use a real server for the upload or use
> vgrabbj to capture a picture and then use a few scripts and lftp to upload
> via ftps to a remote ftp server.
>
> HTH
> Sven
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You can specify wich file configuration is used by webcam; de default
is /home/user/.webcamrc is you run as user, and /etc/.webcamrc if you
run as root. You also can define it with &webcam /dir/.webcamrc to use
your own
In that file you can specify the parameters of where do you want to
upload the picture; for example, if you want to do it at your local
host, you can hace a file configuration like this:
terpsicore:~# more /etc/.webcamrc
[grab]
device = /dev/video0
text = "webcam %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
#infofile = filename
fg_red = 0
fg_green = 0
fg_blue = 0
width = 352
height = 288
delay = 3
wait = 15
#input = composite1
norm = ntsc
rotate = 0
top = 0
left = 0
bottom = -1
right = -1
quality = 300
trigger = 0
once = 0
[ftp]
host = localhost
user = franco
pass = xxxxxxxxx
dir = /home/franco/
file = webcam.jpeg
#tmp = uploading.jpeg
passive = 1
debug = 0
auto = 0
local = 1
ssh = 0
--
Franco Gorziglia Cheviakoff
http://www.gorziglia.cl
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