On Mon, May 9, 2005 12:11 pm, Jim Cheetham said: > Andrew Errington wrote: >> Well, I am sure you have a very nice webcam. If you paid a lot for it >> then >> it is quite likely to be of high quality. It is also possible that you >> paid too much and that a "disposable" webcam would have been more >> appropriate. > > It sounds to me like Steve has an Axis camera - I have one myself, > they're a very nice self-contained unit, you provide power and an > ethernet cable, and they take care of the rest, running embedded linux > with a decent set of options - i.e. time series or motion detection, > with automated notification by email, or outgoing ftp, etc. > > It beats having to have a full PC running 24/7 with a USB cable dragging > out of the window :-) Much much quieter. Sometimes expensive kit is > better than the compromises you have to go through with cheap stuff - > our time is worth money too. > > Having said that, I can't believe that direct sunlight is good for these > devices, even in the medium term. Guessing that Steve isn't taking > pictures of clouds, you probably should simply mask out the entire > skyline by moving the camera or using a modified hood. > > -jim > It's something like that. Can't remember the make, but power and an ethernet cable ( and a polariser stuck to the front, and you're off!
However, as the result is visible at http://www.diamondharbour.net/index.php?id=37, masking out the sky would ruin it a bit (: Cheers, Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
