Cumulus Support

ended up with a Foscam 1905w webcam. I could only get ispyconnect to see/use webcam. yawcam won't connect to camera, so its ispyconnect, what's a good way to do timelapse???I was thinking of 2 options, currently ispyconnect uploads every 10 minutes to my web server overwriting the image file, this is displayed on my site.
option 1 : make ispyconnect create the time lapse.... how??

option 2 : let Foscam upload to my NAS ftp and some how convert to video


over all I need to minimise the CPU power if the computer taking care of cumulus(its a media centre)

By far the easiest way is to sign up with weather underground and they'll do it all for you.

I want my own un branded videos

I've never used their video before as I use maani SWF and PHP to create a slideshow of the last 24 hours, but as a test I created a web page and embedded the weather underground video and this is the result. Apart from a line underneath, which I suspect you could remove, there's no branding.

Its not as high res or as fast as my replay 24 hours, but for the effort required its not too bad IMHO.


http://members.ozemail.com.au/~storerfa ... erswu.html

(BTW I only started sending images to WU as of late yesterday afternoon, so there's not 24 hours worth there yet)

hills wrote:I've never used their video before as I use maani SWF and PHP to create a slideshow of the last 24 hours, but as a test I created a web page and embedded the weather underground video and this is the result. Apart from a line underneath, which I suspect you could remove, there's no branding.

Its not as high res or as fast as my replay 24 hours, but for the effort required its not too bad IMHO.


http://members.ozemail.com.au/~storerfa ... erswu.html

(BTW I only started sending images to WU as of late yesterday afternoon, so there's not 24 hours worth there yet)

My ISP's web space does allow PHP, so i'm stuck with html.

Just after an easy solution that playable on any device, so flash is out of the question...

My camera's software/interface allows a schedule for snap shot taking and uploading via FTP. Which could be an option as ispyconnect if taking a photo and uploading directly to my website every 10 mins

Hi Guys,

Just stumbled across your post, as I have also just added a time lapse video to my site.

I am using images from my Axis M1011 which I use as a front security camera on video analytics, and have IPTimelapse by SebecTec grab images at 30 second intervals.
This are uploaded hourly to my site, between the hours of sunrise & sunset on a daily basis.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Its still works in progress

Regards

John

http://www.rushden-weather.co.uk

I had a go using ispyconnect, but I wasn't happy with what resources it used and the picture quality as well. SebecTec wouldn't use my camera and image processing had no automactic image handling, only to monitor a stream.
So I made my own, kind of..

My camera upload every 17 seconds to a NAS drive on my network, no PC required.
Every 10 minutes i run a script That take the current photo from NAS and uploads to the web site. At the end of the day, I have yet another script that take all the jpg's, compiles to a mp4 renames the other 2 on site and uploads the new one, then makes a copy of the new for my archive storage.
Also this uses no programs except a command promp ffmpeg to convert to mp4, a schedule app(windows task manager is dead) and cumulus toolbox to upload the files.

The end result is 3700 images(between 5am - 9_pm) made into a 2 minute video at 1280 x 720 with a file size of 20 odd MB..

With a software cost of zero dollars and next to no resources used on my media centre.

http://www.users.on.net/~ace2/video.htm