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Okay my task for today is to set up a webcam on my website. Anyone done that before?

I have my webcam installed and running. Now I just need to find some software to FTP the images to my website.

I'll blog my progress in this thread so others can try it themselves =) I mentioned before about a friend of mine who set up a site with live feed on his chickens. =)

Digitrader wrote:
> and host should be
> http://www.mydoamin.net

It depends on your host, my host I just have to add "ftp.mydomain.net" but not sure about your host. Are you with Freeola? If so you should be able to find out the correct ftp address in your MyFreeola settings =)

> and what about passive mode? tick or untick?

Wasn't sure what this does so I just left it ticked, heh.

and host should be
http://www.mydoamin.net

and what about passive mode? tick or untick?

Nope, your correct path should be this for the webcam image.

http://www.mydomain.net/webcam.jpg

So it should end up in the same folder as the webcam.html file.

Its no working? I set the destination path as

http://www.mydomain.net/webcam.html/webcam.jpg

is that correct format? and should I be in passive mode?

Kev

Digitrader wrote:
> So how easy is this to set up? I have a web cam and I never use
> it as I only used it on MSN and it got boring! same folk every
> day sort of thing - please if you have time post some easy
> instructions
>
> Kev

Sure no problem Kev as long as you have a webcam, a website that you can FTP to, then anyone can do this =D

Step 1 - Plug your webcam into your computer.

Step 2 - Download BooruWebCam software. It's free and it's very easy to use.

Step 3 - After you install the software it should detect your webcam straight away. You'll notice a little video box on your screen displaying what your webcam sees.

Step 4 - Right click on this and click Settings > FTP. Here you'll have to enter in your websites FTP address, the username, password and where on your site you want the image to be uploaded. Now click "OK"

Step 5 - Right click on the box again and scroll to Settings > Image. Here you can change the quality of the image that goes onto your site and how often it is uploaded. You can also add a title and a date & time stamp. Click "Apply" and then "OK"

Step 6 - Next you need to create the webpage for the webcam image. First you'll want to have the page reload itself and not cache. Add these meta tags into the head tags of your page.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="[B]30[/B]" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />

30 represents 30 seconds, change this to however many seconds you want, though 30 seconds tends to be the standard.

Next we have the code to call the webcam image.

<img src="webcam.jpg" width="320" height="240" border="0" alt="My webcam" />

You could have the image any size you want but it's best to go with the resolution of your webcam. To find out what this is, right click again on the video box, scroll to Camera Settings > Format here you can see and change the camera resolution.

Step 7 - Right click one last time on the video and scroll to Run and it will start uploading the images to your website =) Clicking it again will stop it.

Hope this helps =)

NOTE: If you want to hide the video feed from your webcam, right click the box and scroll to Hide. To activate it again just click the icon in your IconTray

Ah good =D now people can watch me as I surf the net and watch TV shows.

At 7pm I'll be showing Doctor Who Series 2 =)

So how easy is this to set up? I have a web cam and I never use it as I only used it on MSN and it got boring! same folk every day sort of thing - please if you have time post some easy instructions

Kev


Machie wrote:
> Yeah sorry Kev I turned it off :) I'll turn it back on and put
> something else.

Ahh its changed I see a monitor!

Yeah sorry Kev I turned it off :) I'll turn it back on and put something else.

The picture didnt change I waited ages?

Kev