Kurt, What about a cheap webcam in your office pointed outside?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Weather cam for work Yup. Any you'd care to recommend? I can see tons of them on CDW, Provantage, etc. Picking one that will work well without a recommendation is, well, not fun. Tedious, you might say. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 15:12, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > There are ip based webcams that have their own built in web server. > Give them an IP Address and people can browse to them depending on > security settings. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Didn't take it as smartassery... >> >> Because of what is known as the Puget Sound Convergence Zone, the >> region sometimes has wildly variable weather over relatively small >> distances, and we have people commuting from as far away as 60 miles, >> though I don't know what the average is. I suspect the average is >> around 20 miles, though it could be as much as 25. >> >> I've been snowed in and needed to use chains to get out of my >> driveway, and the parking lot at work was nearly bare. Others have >> experienced the opposite. >> >> See especially the reference to the April 18th, 2008 snowfall here: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_Convergence_Zone >> >> Cliff Mass is a meteorologist in the area whose book and blog posts >> discuss the phenomenon quite a bit. >> >> Here's his most recent post: >> >> http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html >> >> Kurt >> >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:35, Sean Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can they not look out their own window at home or do some of them commute >>> such great distances the weather could be that different? >>> >>> *I'm really not trying to be a smarta$$ >>> >>> - Sean >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Don't need PTZ, either . >>>> >>>> Just a fixed view of the parking lot so they can gauge snow/ice >>>> accumulation. >>>> >>>> Kurt >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 13:30, Sean Rector <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > We have 3 Axis inside and 1 Panasonic w/ PTZ in a bubble for outside. >>>> > >>>> > Sean Rector, MCSE >>>> > >>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>> > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:26 PM >>>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> > Subject: RE: OTish: Weather cam for work >>>> > >>>> > +1 on Axis. We have 6 or 8 of them outside and they are trouble free for >>>> > a couple of years. Only issue is there is a codex or something (don't >>>> > remember for sure what it was) that requires admin rights to install on >>>> > the >>>> > desktop. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>> > From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:21 PM >>>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> > Subject: RE: OTish: Weather cam for work >>>> > >>>> > At my last job, we installed one of these on the roof: >>>> > >>>> > http://www.axis.com/products/cam_2130/index.htm >>>> > >>>> > Inside an outdoor weatherproof dome, of course. >>>> > >>>> > Really sweet camera. >>>> > >>>> > Might be overkill. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Phillip Partipilo >>>> > Parametric Solutions Inc. >>>> > Jupiter, Florida >>>> > (561) 747-6107 >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>> > From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:05 PM >>>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> > Subject: RE: OTish: Weather cam for work >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Yes, you will need 32 ports opened on your FW! :) Unless the camera is >>>> > a Celsius version. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Webster >>>> > >>>> >> -----Original Message----- >>>> >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> >> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:59 PM >>>> >> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> >> Subject: OTish: Weather cam for work >>>> >> >>>> >> All, >>>> >> >>>> >> We're looking at potentially getting an external cam that puts up >>>> >> pictures of the parking lot so that employees can see what the snow >>>> >> conditions are in the parking lot. 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