Hi All,
Hope things are well.
Over the last year I've been uploading my webcam image to Weather Underground and just sort of left it at that. But over the last couple of months the playback and storage has been less than stellar and I wanted a little more for folks to look at. Not knocking WU, storage and maintenance for that many photos and videos takes a commitment and maybe that was lost when The Weather Channel bought them out.
Anyways, I treated myself to a small Christmas bonus this year and purchased
Sebectec Software and with the unusually cold Winter this year(-20.9 F this morning) I've taken some time to set it up on my site.
The cam is a BL-C140A from Panasonic located under the eave of my home looking over my backyard here in the valley. The software puts the current info on the pic and uploads it to my site. Then every hour, it takes the picks from the current day and makes an 'Intraday' video and uploads it to the site. The software also uploads the current 'thumbnail' image that I have on my homepage.
Since I have no lights in the back yard I only take pics during the day but I have the past seven days videos linked on the page. This is accomplished by a couple of small php scripts run by cron. The one script runs each day around 1pm and copies the current image.jpg and renames it for the day, say Tue.jpg Then at 9pm each evening, cron runs another script that copies and renames the latest intraday video to Tue.mp4 So when you click on a link to one of the days from the last week, you see the 1pm photo for that day and click on it to view the video for that day. It's actually pretty simple but just wanted to have something to look at incase folks came by the site when it's dark.
Anyways, if you have time to click the image and have a look all comments and critiques would be appreciated.
Thanks
Brad
