On Tuesday 14 April 2009 11:37:46 am Kimball Larsen wrote: > My company is building a new building, as we have outgrown our current > digs. The new building is being erected about 1000ft from our current > location - just across 2 parking lots. From the roof of our current > building, we have a very clear line of sight to the construction plot, > and would like to put a little camera up there that will snap a photo > every day that we can stitch together into a time-lapse movie of the > building going up. > > There are 2 issues to deal with: > a) Zoom. The new building is far enough away that it would appear > too small on most run-of-the-mill webcams. > b) Distance from nearest linux box. It is likely that we'll have to > run a cable in excess of 50' to get from one of our always on linux > servers (where I could set up some software to take the shots > periodically) to the mount point for the camera. Can usb go this far? > (ok, 3 issues) > c) Software. I am not at all familiar with what sorts of software > are available for doing this sort of thing in linux. Can anyone make > any recommendations? > > Thanks in advance! > > > - Kimball > http://www.kimballlarsen.com > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */
Max length of USB cables are about 16 feet. So that won't work so hot. I'm sure that there's a terminal program that'll capture an image from them, then you could just set up a cron job to take care of that. -- Jessie Morris
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