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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
Here's a free program that you can set up to capture images on a schedule.
I used it for a long time for my birdhouse camera. It will capture still images and save them to a file and/or ftp them to a remote site. http://www.hilo.dk/pryme If you need video here's a low-cost program ~$20USD that you can try: http://www.tincam.com/ They're both super easy to set up if all you're wanting is to save the files for review later! -- Gary Visit Lucy & Gary and do the jigsaw puzzle at www.under-1-roof.com/PuzzlePage.html wrote in message ... I am in the unique position to offer some assistance to a company in the form of webcam monitoring. They don't want to spend anything, but it might lead to a job for me. Can someone fill me in on a cheap or even free webcam monitoring software that I can use? The computer would be running 8-10 hours during the day the webcam would need to ALWAYS be capturing the images I am hoping this is easy to set up, but time will tell. Thanks in advance, |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
Wow, that is great. It looks very comprehensive for such an
inexpensive piece of software. If it can let me archive the videos/ images streams as well as schedule times and dates to turn on and off, I think I have a winner. Thanks for that. Do you have a site that you have this webcam running on? On May 29, 10:16 pm, "Gary" wrote: Here's a free program that you can set up to capture images on a schedule. I used it for a long time for my birdhouse camera. It will capture still images and save them to a file and/or ftp them to a remote site. http://www.hilo.dk/pryme If you need video here's a low-cost program ~$20USD that you can try: http://www.tincam.com/ They're both super easy to set up if all you're wanting is to save the files for review later! -- |
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Well, I can't seem to get Tincam to capture via schedule for video. I
have emailed the creator, but haven't heard back yet. I also wanted to capture every 2 seconds from a spefic time (let's say 5:00 everyday until 6:00) but that doesn't seem to have that ability either...I will have to keep looking On May 29, 10:16 pm, "Gary" wrote: Here's a free program that you can set up to capture images on a schedule. I used it for a long time for my birdhouse camera. It will capture still images and save them to a file and/or ftp them to a remote site. http://www.hilo.dk/pryme If you need video here's a low-cost program ~$20USD that you can try: http://www.tincam.com/ They're both super easy to set up if all you're wanting is to save the files for review later! -- |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
"daviddschool" wrote in message
... Well, I can't seem to get Tincam to capture via schedule for video. I have emailed the creator, but haven't heard back yet. I also wanted to capture every 2 seconds from a spefic time (let's say 5:00 everyday until 6:00) but that doesn't seem to have that ability either...I will have to keep looking On May 29, 10:16 pm, "Gary" wrote: Here's a free program that you can set up to capture images on a schedule. I used it for a long time for my birdhouse camera. It will capture still images and save them to a file and/or ftp them to a remote site. http://www.hilo.dk/pryme If you need video here's a low-cost program ~$20USD that you can try: http://www.tincam.com/ They're both super easy to set up if all you're wanting is to save the files for review later! -- I've used WME to record using task manager. You can start recording with a command line and specify a duration for that recording. Set up a session to record and save to a file. Use the VBS script to start it. Something like this: cscript "c:\program files\windows media components\encoder\wmcmd.vbs" -wme myfile.wme -duration 3600 Your script can now move/copy the saved file. |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
On 28-05-2008 14:59:16, wrote:
I am in the unique position to offer some assistance to a company in the form of webcam monitoring. They don't want to spend anything, but it might lead to a job for me. Can someone fill me in on a cheap or even free webcam monitoring software that I can use? The computer would be running 8-10 hours during the day the webcam would need to ALWAYS be capturing the images I am hoping this is easy to set up, but time will tell. Thanks in advance, Active Webcam not lowcost but 100% ok i have used it for many years now. Take a look. http://www.pysoft.com/ /skibber |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
skibber wrote:
On 28-05-2008 14:59:16, wrote: I am in the unique position to offer some assistance to a company in the form of webcam monitoring. They don't want to spend anything, but it might lead to a job for me. Can someone fill me in on a cheap or even free webcam monitoring software that I can use? The computer would be running 8-10 hours during the day the webcam would need to ALWAYS be capturing the images I am hoping this is easy to set up, but time will tell. Thanks in advance, Active Webcam not lowcost but 100% ok i have used it for many years now. Take a look. http://www.pysoft.com/ /skibber I have been using a program called Conquercam available from he http://www.theill.com/ConquerCam/ It is not free, but only costs US$10. It hasn't been updated for a very long time, but has worked without problems for me for over 4 years. It has the ability to capture at any user specified interval (seconds to days), save the images to a local folder and/or upload it to the web, capture video, motion detection with full user masking and sensitivity control (either video or still images). Full captioning abilities (if required) with date/time stamping and/or user defined text placed anywhere on the image. Very small resources required and will run under any MS OS from Win95 to XP. Full scheduling ability to start/stop any time either daily or user defined days. It will accept the input from any USB camera or a video capture card (I am using it for that....I have a CCTV camera plugged into the composite input of a capture card). It will also accept the input from a digital or old analogue video camera providing the appropriate drivers are installed. I have had it accept the input from my Canon MV150i DV camera connected via firewire. Currently I have it running for about 10 hours per day (on average...some days it is less, some days more), 7 days a week, but I used to have it running 24 hours a day when I was capturing images from some endangered birds that were nesting in our front yard!. On a typical day it will save from 1100 to 2200 images to my HDD. Using 3rd party software (the free Photolapse fro instance) these can be compiled into a timelapse video. You can see conquercam in operation he http://users.tpg.com.au/athorncr/ during daylight hours (Australian Time (UTC+10)) |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
I have been testing out the conquercam and I can't seem to get it to
capture video at a schedule. It seems to capture an image, but for some reason won't start capturing a video. I am also noting that when capturing an image on my harddrive (I am not using this attached to a ftp or the internet) that it directly copies over the old image on the harddrive without renaming or renumbering it. So, I have tried to get a hold of the guy from conquercam on their forum, but nothing so far. How are you capturing video on a schedule? I am not using motion capture, but instead just want the video to start recording at a certain time and then stop at a certain time... The computer would be running 8-10 hours during the day the webcam would need to ALWAYS be capturing the images I am hoping this is easy to set up, but time will tell. Thanks in advance, Active Webcam not lowcost but 100% ok i have used it for many years now. Take a look. http://www.pysoft.com/ /skibber I have been using a program called Conquercam available from hehttp://www.theill.com/ConquerCam/ It is not free, but only costs US$10. It hasn't been updated for a very long time, but has worked without problems for me for over 4 years. It has the ability to capture at any user specified interval (seconds to days), save the images to a local folder and/or upload it to the web, capture video, motion detection with full user masking and sensitivity control (either video or still images). Full captioning abilities (if required) with date/time stamping and/or user defined text placed anywhere on the image. Very small resources required and will run under any MS OS from Win95 to XP. Full scheduling ability to start/stop any time either daily or user defined days. It will accept the input from any USB camera or a video capture card (I am using it for that....I have a CCTV camera plugged into the composite input of a capture card). It will also accept the input from a digital or old analogue video camera providing the appropriate drivers are installed. I have had it accept the input from my Canon MV150i DV camera connected via firewire. Currently I have it running for about 10 hours per day (on average...some days it is less, some days more), 7 days a week, but I used to have it running 24 hours a day when I was capturing images from some endangered birds that were nesting in our front yard!. On a typical day it will save from 1100 to 2200 images to my HDD. Using 3rd party software (the free Photolapse fro instance) these can be compiled into a timelapse video. You can see conquercam in operation hehttp://users.tpg.com.au/athorncr/during daylight hours (Australian Time (UTC+10))- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
Steve,
Thanks for the reply, but I don't even know where to start with Visual Basic. Does the scheduler need to have commands? I tried to run Tincam with the sceduler and got an error, but I didn't see a place to put in the cmd line. Does the script go in the encoder folder or somewhere else? I've used WME to record using task manager. You can start recording with a command line and specify a duration for that recording. Set up a session to record and save to a file. Use the VBS script to start it. Something like this: cscript "c:\program files\windows media components\encoder\wmcmd.vbs" -wme myfile.wme -duration 3600 Your script can now move/copy the saved file.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
"daviddschool" wrote in message
... Steve, Thanks for the reply, but I don't even know where to start with Visual Basic. Does the scheduler need to have commands? I tried to run Tincam with the sceduler and got an error, but I didn't see a place to put in the cmd line. Does the script go in the encoder folder or somewhere else? I've used WME to record using task manager. You can start recording with a command line and specify a duration for that recording. Set up a session to record and save to a file. Use the VBS script to start it. Something like this: cscript "c:\program files\windows media components\encoder\wmcmd.vbs" -wme myfile.wme -duration 3600 Your script can now move/copy the saved file.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - If you're using XP, the Task Scheduler is built in. You don't need to know VB. The script (wmcmd.vbs) comes with Media Encoder, or one of the other free Windows Media downloads from Microsoft. If you schedule the above command (starting with cscript), it will start at the specified time. |
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Low cost web-cam monitoring software?
Do I just type this into a cmd dialogue box?
cscript "c:\program files\windows media components\encoder\wmcmd.vbs" -wme myfile.wme -duration 3600 And does this enable me to work with more specific times after the script is loaded? cscript "c:\program files\windows media components\encoder\wmcmd.vbs" -wme myfile.wme -duration 3600 Your script can now move/copy the saved file.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - If you're using XP, the Task Scheduler is built in. You don't need to know VB. The script (wmcmd.vbs) comes with Media Encoder, or one of the other free Windows Media downloads from Microsoft. If you schedule the above command (starting with cscript), it will start at the specified time.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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