Re: taking pictures at certain times

I've looked at tldp's webcam howto, and it offers several applications,
streamer is one of them, there's camE and they also say sane ( the
scanner handler program ) can also capture from any v4l device

the nice thing I've noticed about camE is you can add text (
transparent if you need ) to the pictures, so you will be able to add
place, time IN the photo.
So, create like in the below script a dynamic name for the photos,
and then add this script as cronjob.

Just don't forget to organize archivation of all these pictures, since
in months they can eat up disk space, and, of course you need to
backup all this stuff - otherwise the idea of taking them in the 1st
place has no puprpose.

Regards, Max.


On 10/23/06, Rick Miles <[email protected]> wrote:
> Leon, I picked up a cheap Logitech QuickCam Express and had a play with this
> over the weekend.
>
> The application xwatv comes with some CLI aps that access webcams for saving
> video to disk, streaming video on a network and also for saving jpeg images
> to disk.
>
> Using the below script I saved a bunch of avi clips to disk
>
> #!/bin/bash
> COUNT=0
> until [ $COUNT -eq 60 ]
> do
>    streamer -q -c /dev/video1 -f rgb24 -r 24 -t 00:00:20 -o /videos/test/`date
> +%m%d%H%M`.avi
>    sleep 60
>    COUNT=$(( $COUNT + 1 ))
> done
>
> The streamer command does the work. It'd be smarter to run it as a cron job.
> In this script a 20 sec video is made every 60 seconds Each file gets a
> unique date/time name.
>
> QC Express is a low end webcam if you went this route you'd need to buy
> something better for long distance focus and greater pixels.
>
> Contact me offline if you want more info
>
> Leon Blakeley is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there someone clever enough to get a linux box to capture still pics
> > from a web cam hourly during daylight hours for months?
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