Hi Chris, Watching you now and it seems to go.
Vik :v) On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 21:30, Chris Hellyar wrote: > Hi-ho > > Following on from the analogue dials on the computer at the fest (Which > I'll bring to the next meeting BTW) I've got my remote controlled webcam > working.. > > You can find the prototype at http://chris.trash.co.nz for tonight, I'll > move it to work tomorrow... The interface sucks, and it's hosted on a > slow connection, so don't expect too much, but you can look around my > 'office' :-). The image quality is a bit poor as I'm using high > compression on the jpeg's to help the slow line for testing... > > It also dosn't do 'sessions' so it's a first-in first served for > controlling it, and you can fight over it.. :-). > > For the Linux relevance.. > > It's a Creative webcam 5 plugged into a toshiba 440cdx laptop running > Redhat 7.3 (no gui). > > The laptop runs Apache 1.3.22, and some custom C cgi stuff I've written > to move the camera in a small robotic 'yoke' of sorts.. Same servo > controller circuit that I used at the installfest for the dials. I also > had to re-write part of 'webcam' which is part of xawtv as my images > were comming out mirror image.. > > It's a USB device which is supported under the kernel using the pwc > module, but the maintainer has a comment on his site about mirror > imaging which says basically 'you're not alone, but I've not fixed it' > so I fixed it at the app end after trying three different kernels, and a > custom pwc.o as well.. > > You're getting to the camera via a dynamic dns address which points at > my linux (RH7.1) based firewall machine, which nats to the laptop which > is on my home LAN. > > I'm quite happy to go into more detail if anyone is interested in any > aspect of this... I did it as a learning project, so if others can > learn a bit all things are good.. > > The theory is that I'll put it in different places around the WAN at > work, and people will be able to get to varoius views of the district > depending on where the camera is on that day. I'll have to work on the > HTML first of course.. > > The cam will be online untill I got to bed, probably 1am ish. > > Enjoy :-).
