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By: stefan

stefan — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:57:05 +0000

Yeah, I would have preferred to keep it where it was but the plug links I was using to get Internet into my fathers shed were not working very well. I may move it back there later. The outside exposure actually didn’t affect things all that much.

If I don’t move it back to it’s previous location I will have to look into what you have done to fix the window glare.

By: darethehair

darethehair — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:15:23 +0000

Looks like you moved the camera inside and away from the harsh elements? Good idea, but internal reflections are a nuisance — I set up my camera so the lens was right against the window glass, and surrounded by a sheet of black construction paper — from which I had cut a hole the same size as the camera lens. Helped a lot!

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[...] the beginning of this year I announced the launch of a webcam I had setup at my parents house in the Kootenays. In the announcement I talked briefly how the [...]

By: stefan

stefan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:30:36 +0000

Ha yes! I think the sensor on the camera is slowly dying. I am going to do a timelapse of today, and see how that purple tinge looks in video form!

By: darethehair

darethehair — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:26:32 +0000

Hey, I just noticed that the images from your webcam appear to be failing in some sort of strange and beautiful way

By: darethehair

darethehair — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:32:25 +0000

Well, let us know what ultimately was the source of the problem, since we are now quite curious! Maybe your parents can attempt a reboot of the computer in the meantime?

By: stefan

stefan — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:32:14 +0000

I did yes. However I am pretty positive the machine went down. It is tough not being on location to debug the issue.

By: darethehair

darethehair — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:24:06 +0000

As a wild guess, the camera takes/saves a pic in about 5 seconds and USB2 allows it to be uploaded in another 5 seconds, so only doing this once per minute is easy for the camera. I was worried that after running it 24×7 for *years* that it would eventually burn out, but it keeps on ticking! Apparently a DLSR *would* have its shutter mechanism wear out from doing this.

Could/did you not make your remote PC/camera accessible (i.e. SSH)? That would tell you if the PC was down, or just the camera (?).

By: stefan

stefan — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:49:05 +0000

interesting. Have you had any issue with your camera using it via cron at such a high interval rate? I am trying to diagnose what happened to my setup, and wondering if I might have burnt out the camera. However if you are running at such a high rate I am almost thinking now it is the linux box.

By: darethehair

darethehair — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:54:20 +0000

Yep, gphoto2 for the camera, and M-JPEG streamer for the webcam. I am simply using ‘cron’ for the scheduler, so it is running at the max interval rate of 1/minute that way. I think for ‘smooth’ timelapse of shadows and sun, it would have to be quicker than this

My frustration has been that my camera does NOT work with gphoto2 on my tiny NSLU2 computers — which was my original intent