Network Web Cam Running Without PC attached

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Not sure if this has already come up, but I am looking to use a Cisco WVC2300 network web cam to take snapshots and store the snapshot as webcam.jpg on a website. The snapshot can be taken every 20-30 minutes and will simply overwrite the existing file. When customers click on the web cam link they will view the the most recent webcam.jpg.

The web cam has a built in web server, but I think I need to have something running in our Linux based hosting site.

All help would be appreicated.
Thanks,
Dave

Posted 11-Jan-10 0:11am

David Meacham

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benjymous · Answer 1 · 2010-01-11T01:03:00

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The datasheet[^] suggests that the webcam can be configured to directly upload to an ftp server, so that should work for you (assuming the webcam can "see" your hosting server)

Posted 11-Jan-10 1:03am

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David Meacham · Answer 2 · 2010-01-11T03:20:00

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Yes I saw that in the datasheet but for the life of me I can't seem to get the camera to perform the way I want it to. I discovered I can do a snapshot via a URL by http://<ip address="">/img/snapshot.cgi. Just can't seem to have the camera operate that way on its own.
Dsave

Posted 11-Jan-10 3:20am

David Meacham

David Meacham · Answer 3 · 2010-01-11T15:47:00

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Well I have finally been able to have the web cam send one jpg every 10 minutes. All I have to do is figure out how to have it named webcam.jpg and overwrite the old file each time. Any and all help would be asppreicated. Thanks in advance.

Posted 11-Jan-10 15:47pm

David Meacham

Christian Graus · Answer 4 · 2010-01-11T15:56:00

What your camera does and doesn't support is probably something that's hard for people, who mostly won't have one, to comment on. But, can you write a script that runs on your server ( such as a service ), that looks for the file more often than it gets written, and moves it to the right place ?

David Meacham · Answer 5 · 2010-01-11T16:04:00

I have it going to the right place...just not the correct name. All the files that are written are timestamped like webcam-10112010-21590015.jpg. I am not very good at writting scripts. The location is also a Linux based web server.

Can I check for the file webcam% (or something else that masks it and the change the name to webcam.jpg?

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