On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:25:23 +0000 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:

I'm after a simple webcam image capturing program to run from the command line (well, ultimately from cron).

It's to run on my eeePc on the boat so must be simple and lightweight.

I am currently trying webcam and fswebcam without much success at the moment. If anyone has any experience of either of these programs then I'd be pleased to know.

It seems that webcam is the nearest to working, I'm am trying to get it to store images locally rather than FTPing them anywhere. It seems to grab an image but then when it tries to copy it fails:-

root@eeepc:~# mkdir -p /home/chris/public_html/images
root@eeepc:~# webcam
reading config file: /root/.webcamrc
video4linux webcam v1.5 - (c) 1998-2002 Gerd Knorr
grabber config:
  size 320x240 [none]
  input (null), norm (null), jpeg quality 75
  rotate=0, top=0, left=0, bottom=240, right=320
write config [ftp]:
  local transfer /home/chris/public_html/images/uploading.jpeg

=> /home/chris/public_html/images/webcam.jpeg open filename: No such file or directory open filename: No such file or directory open filename: No such file or directory open filename: No such file or directory

Chris

webcam works fine for me. Make sure you have "local=1" set in the [ftp] directives. Here's my config file:

# # Configuration file for webcam program. # [grab] device = /dev/video0 text = "Webcam on the slug at %H:%M:%S on %d %b %Y" fg_red = 255 fg_green = 255 fg_blue = 255 width = 320 height = 240 # delay is the time in seconds between snapshots delay = 30 # wait is the time in seconds before first starting wait = 5 #input = composite1 #input = usb norm = pal # quality = jepg quality quality = 80 rotate = 0 top = 0 left = 0 bottom = -1 right = -1 trigger = 0 # if once set to 1, webcam will upload a single file and quit. once = 0

[ftp] host = webcam.baldric.net # local = 0 for remote transfer 1 for local filesystem local = 1 dir = /home/web/webcam.baldric.net/images file = webcam.jpeg #tmp = uploading.jpeg # variables below not required for local file transfer - only for remote #user = webcam #pass = xxxxxx #passive = 1 #debug = 0 #auto = 0 #ssh = 0

and to see it in action, go here http://webcam.baldric.net/

Mick

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