Re: webcamd
On 2022-03-21 21:39, Russell L. Harris wrote: I am having only limited success configuring the Debian webcamd package. I wish to display images from a Logitech web cam pointing out the window as a weathercam, uploading a new image about once a minute. I plan to upload the images to a subdirectory "webcam" of my weather website, www.example-weather.org/webcam. I am running Debian 11; but I also have machines running Debian 10 and Debian 9. I would like first to get things running in Apache on localhost before uploading to a shared host on hostgator.com. Ideally, the image would be on both. The example webcamd.conf calls for a font named "clean" to write dates on the pictures, but "fc-list" does not show "clean" installed. I have tried to specify "Monospace Regular" but that does not seem to work. My latest effort has the index_up.html and index_down.hthl displaying, but no photo. I also had the photo displaying without a date. Is there a webcam application more suitable for this application? RLH a solution would be to composite the date over the photo with Graphics Magick, Image Magick. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31
webcamd
I am having only limited success configuring the Debian webcamd package. I wish to display images from a Logitech web cam pointing out the window as a weathercam, uploading a new image about once a minute. I plan to upload the images to a subdirectory "webcam" of my weather website, www.example-weather.org/webcam. I am running Debian 11; but I also have machines running Debian 10 and Debian 9. I would like first to get things running in Apache on localhost before uploading to a shared host on hostgator.com. Ideally, the image would be on both. The example webcamd.conf calls for a font named "clean" to write dates on the pictures, but "fc-list" does not show "clean" installed. I have tried to specify "Monospace Regular" but that does not seem to work. My latest effort has the index_up.html and index_down.hthl displaying, but no photo. I also had the photo displaying without a date. Is there a webcam application more suitable for this application? RLH -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: Bug#143343: ITP: webcamd -- Capture images from video devices and upload or save it in a directory
#include Julien Danjou wrote on Wed Apr 17, 2002 um 10:45:10PM: > * Package name : webcamd > Version : 0.7.6 > Upstream Author : Pierre Dinh-van <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://webcamd.tuxfamily.org/ > * License : GPL > Description : Capture images from video devices and upload/save it in a > directory I hope it does not break on webcams with limited set of operational modes/resolutions, like those CPIA things. > webcamd captures images from webcam and put it in a web directory or upload > it by FTP I still wait for a webcam daemon which can open ONE ssh connection and refresh the picture through this connection. I tried camE a while ago, it allways tried to spawn a new ssh connection, which needs some seconds to be established, of course... Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wer Stabilität aufgibt, um Benutzerfreundlichkeit zu bekommen, verdient keins der beiden und bekommt meist auch keins. -- frei nach B. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
