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Thread ID: 97859 2009-03-02 05:06:00 Website. pine-o-cleen (2955) PC World Chat
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752673 2009-03-02 23:07:00 Cheap PC - What is needed here? Just saw the price of IP cameras (way too high), so needs a capture card.

Woah, slow down there. Just get a cheap $20 webcam and Dorgem (http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/) (free, no longer maintained). It supports uploading over FTP, and can be set to take photos with or without timestamps, at various intervals, and can also be motion-activated.
ubergeek85 (131)
752674 2009-03-03 01:21:00 Be careful about following suggestions of buying MetService data and then posting it on your website for others to read for free. I'm sure their terms and conditions wouldn't allow you to do this. Reposting their publicly funded data may be ok.

Given that if you signup for their "business" services and one of those services is the ability to include metservice forecasts directly into your website, I think this is a non-issue.

www.metservice.co.nz
(internet service)
dyewitness (9398)
752675 2009-03-03 01:24:00 Woah, slow down there. Just get a cheap $20 webcam and Dorgem (http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/) (free, no longer maintained). It supports uploading over FTP, and can be set to take photos with or without timestamps, at various intervals, and can also be motion-activated.

There are some unknowns:
- budget
- quality of info required by the service

e.g Maybe a stock-standard webcam image is sufficient or maybe a higher quality one from CCTV is required.
dyewitness (9398)
752676 2009-03-03 04:23:00 www.windsurf.co.nz shermo (12739)
752677 2009-03-03 04:30:00 Yeah something like that shermo. Except that website is ugly and half the cams don't work. pine-o-cleen (2955)
752678 2009-03-03 07:26:00 ditto, somethings up with that site hueybot3000 (3646)
752679 2009-03-03 19:59:00 e.g Maybe a stock-standard webcam image is sufficient or maybe a higher quality one from CCTV is required.

Then get a webcam that takes better stills (eg 4mp, etc).
ubergeek85 (131)
752680 2009-03-04 01:25:00 You could get one of those cool cheap as NAS which have ftp built in and just connect into it to veiw the pics, or some sort of VPN VNC program?? Gobe1 (6290)
752681 2009-03-04 05:52:00 I don't understand, why would the NAS be necessary? pine-o-cleen (2955)
752682 2009-03-05 00:04:00 It wouldnt be necessary but he was asking for ideas and it is just another one. The VNC is a free download Gobe1 (6290)
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