webcam battery or solar powered

[alexvanuxem]

Hi

I'm looking for a not costly wifi webcam, preferably with batteries or a solar panel (no power socket available)
that is easily can be configured within my websites.

https://sint-katelijne-waver-meteo.be/template/
https://sint-katelijne-waver-meteo.be/pwsWD/

or that meteobridge can capture the pic and send them through.

time-lapse feature is a plus.

Any ideas??

thx

Alex

[HansR]

Hi

I'm looking for a not costly wifi webcam, preferably with batteries or a solar panel (no power socket available)
that is easily can be configured within my websites.

https://sint-katelijne-waver-meteo.be/template/
https://sint-katelijne-waver-meteo.be/pwsWD/

or that meteobridge can capture the pic and send them through.

time-lapse feature is a plus.

Any ideas??

thx

Alex

Hi, I see you did not include CUtils in your links though it exists. If you wish to maintain that site you might consider the HP10 by Ecowitt. Ecowitt itself maintains time-lapse (7 days available). Cheap.

For other situations a simple configuration of a webcam image is available thus any webcam which is able to upload an image regularly can be used.

Webcam definitely is highly dependent of what you want: some want high resolution real-time streaming, some are satisfied with just an interval image of the sky/clouds. I'd say: keep it simple, it's just an image

[alexvanuxem]

thx Hans sorry I forgot your site!

[HansR]

thx Hans sorry I forgot your site!

Haha.... OK. No problem

[Edit:] and btw: it is not my site, it is your site (with my utility but that is different )

[alexvanuxem]

hi Hans,

so i bought the ecowitt hp10.

can you help me with the settings or what to do to get my image online,

i'm kinda lost in the forum threads or post about this.

many thx

alex

[HansR]

@Alex: First make sure it is connected to Ecowitt.net then see the Wiki.
If you run into trouble, please post in the CUtils forum, I'll be back at the end of Monday.

@freddie: can you move this whole thread to the CUtils forum? Thanks.

[HansR]

Please note that in my website last night around 2h30 the meteocam started failing. It seems to be a javascript timing issue but I had no time to look into it. That will be addressed after the weekend but maybe other HP10 webcams do work.

[Nossie]

Hi Hans, mine seems to work .... but right now it's not much anyway hah.

scratch that - webcam hasn't updated since that time yesterday morning



Once linked to your ecowitt account - your cumulusutils.ini should look like this

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[MeteoCam]
CamType=EcowittHP10
MeteoCamMenu=true

[alexvanuxem]

Hi Hans

Offcourse I'm struggling.

in meteocamrealtime.txt i put this: http://192.168.0.171/capture correct?

in cumulusutils.ini I put this :
[MeteoCam]
MeteoCamMenu=true
CamType=EcowittHP10
MeteoCamDir=wwwroot/Cutils/img/
TimelapseExtension=mp4
MeteoCamName=meteocam.jpg

correct?

In CMX extrawebfiles is the challange.
What do I need to upload to the wwwroot/Cutils/img/ directory?

meteocam.txt or meteocamrealtime.txt ? what do I need to tick?

and what is the output meteocam.jpg ?

I tried lots of combination, no image on the website.
what I ask in CMX extra webfiles is done, so a transfer of the file is done, in wwwroot/Cutils/img/ there's a meteocam.jpg file every minute.


thanks

[alexvanuxem]

Finally I giot a meteocam.jpg uploaded to my wwroot every 5 minutes.

I did this through the cmx http file settings <ecowittcameraurl> to 192.168.0.171/capture

in meteocamrealtime.txt I changed <#EcowittCameraUrl> to <ecowittcameraurl>

otherwise the mxdiags said thet the data was empty in this file when i am uploading
meteocamrealtime.txt to wwwroot/Cutils/meteocamrealtime.txt

the cumulusutils.ini says now

[MeteoCam]
MeteoCamMenu=true
CamType=EcowittHP10
MeteoCamDir=wwwroot/
TimelapseExtension=mp4
MeteoCamName=meteocam.jpg

because there is my metecocam.jpg to be found

But I dont see it in my website

https://sint-katelijne-waver-meteo.be/C ... teocam.txt

nearly there?

thx


alex

[water01]

I am sure that Hans will get back to you but that URL

i put this: http://192.168.0.171/capture correct?

I would suggest is not right as it is an internal IP address and unless your router has been set up to allow access to it, it will block the access to that address.

This is confirmed by running the developer console on your page and ecowittcameraurl is giving a 404 error which means it cannot find it.

Normally you would have a webcam uploading it's image to somewhere on your website and then the URL would point the page to that image on the website.

[HansR]

I don't have much time now, but please follow the wiki as indicated above.
There should be no need to use other settings if the cam type is set to the HP10.
If that does not work please wait until I am back.

[alexvanuxem]

ok I will wait...

set everything to original

[MeteoCam]
MeteoCamMenu=true
CamType=EcowittHP10
MeteoCamDir=wwwroot/
TimelapseExtension=mp4
MeteoCamName=meteocam.jpg

and also the meteocamrealtime.txt as original

uploading that to Cutils folder but is not processed because dat file is empty according to the mxdiags

thanks for your time

alex

[alexvanuxem]

I think I need to set <ecowittcameraurl> tag in CMX becuase it dont show up in websitedata.json

how to do that?

im usin daviswll, ecowitt lightning and now a hp 10

[alexvanuxem]

update:

CMX has found my Ecowitt sensors:

2025-01-19 11:37:01.811 Creating Ecowitt cloud extra sensors station
2025-01-19 11:37:01.812 Creating Extra Sensors - Ecowitt Cloud
2025-01-19 11:37:01.822 API.GetStationList: Get Ecowitt Station List - mac=E8:DB:84:E7:1F:33
2025-01-19 11:37:01.822 Ecowitt URL = https://api.ecowitt.net/api/v3/device/l ... <<User-key>>
2025-01-19 11:37:02.513 API.GetStationList: Ecowitt API Station List Response code: 200
2025-01-19 11:37:02.513 API.GetStationList: Ecowitt API Station List Response: {"code":0,"msg":"success","time":"1737283020","data":{"total":2,"totalPage":1,"pageNum":1,"list":[{"id":231118,"name":"Veronique Weather Cam","mac":"C0:5D:89:C3:2A:F0","type":2,"date_zone_id":"Europe\/Brussels","createtime":1736957330,"longitude":4.513135,"latitude":51.038096,"stationtype":"HP10_V1.0.8","iotdevice_list":[]},{"id":87767,"name":"Veronique Lightning","mac":"E8:DB:84:E7:1F:33","type":1,"date_zone_id":"Europe\/Brussels","createtime":1654682687,"longitude":4.4834,"latitude":51.024,"stationtype":"GW1100A_V2.3.6","iotdevice_list":[]}]}}
2025-01-19 11:37:02.517 API.GetStationList: Station: id=231118, mac/imei=C0:5D:89:C3:2A:F0, name=Veronique Weather Cam, type=HP10_V1.0.8
2025-01-19 11:37:02.517 API.GetStationList: Found Camera name=Veronique Weather Cam, vers=HP10_V1.0.8
2025-01-19 11:37:02.517 API.GetStationList: Station: id=87767, mac/imei=E8:DB:84:E7:1F:33, name=Veronique Lightning, type=GW1100A_V2.3.6
2025-01-19 11:37:02.517 API.GetStationList: Found Station model=GW1100A, vers=2.3.6
2025-01-19 11:37:02.531 939 web tags initialised

i set the camera: Use the web cam URL for your Ecowitt camera to true

but the it says:

2025-01-19 11:47:01.914 FTP[Int]: Uploading Extra web file: C:\CumulusMX\utils\meteocamrealtime.txt
2025-01-19 11:47:01.914 FTP[Int]: Processing Extra web file: C:\CumulusMX\utils\meteocamrealtime.txt
2025-01-19 11:47:01.914 FTP[Int]: The data is empty - skipping upload of wwwroot/Cutils/meteocamrealtime.txt

the GW1000 data is coming through but not the cam url

thx

alex