New IP Camera
Posted: Fri 12 May 2017 1:53 pm
Hi all.
When I first built my site I had a webcam running through a piece of software (IP Timelapse) that would manage the screenshots and webcam stream for me. It broke though and after much fussing about I removed it from my site.
A friend recently showed me his new IP security camera set-up so I treated myself and replaced my existing old security system with a new IP system which has much better image quality. I had a spare camera so set about finding ways to utilise it for my website.
What I've ended up with is a still image on the home page that is clickable to a streaming image run by a company called IPCAMLIVE. I send them one stream upon request and they re-broadcast it up to 100 times for free (more streams available at a cost). This means the camera and my internet connection don't get bogged down.
My website is here: www.westonweather.co.uk and I'd appreciate if people could let me know if they can see the static image and the stream loads when they click the image. I have had to do some jiggery pokery with the ports on my network as port 80 is already in use the webserver that runs the site, so 8080 has been used for the webcam. It seems to work fine for me, but would really like a few people to check it for me please?
I am happy to share information on the IP camera used and how I managed to get both a static image directly out of it and a stream for IPCAMLIVE to rebroadcast if that is of interest to people.
When I first built my site I had a webcam running through a piece of software (IP Timelapse) that would manage the screenshots and webcam stream for me. It broke though and after much fussing about I removed it from my site.
A friend recently showed me his new IP security camera set-up so I treated myself and replaced my existing old security system with a new IP system which has much better image quality. I had a spare camera so set about finding ways to utilise it for my website.
What I've ended up with is a still image on the home page that is clickable to a streaming image run by a company called IPCAMLIVE. I send them one stream upon request and they re-broadcast it up to 100 times for free (more streams available at a cost). This means the camera and my internet connection don't get bogged down.
My website is here: www.westonweather.co.uk and I'd appreciate if people could let me know if they can see the static image and the stream loads when they click the image. I have had to do some jiggery pokery with the ports on my network as port 80 is already in use the webserver that runs the site, so 8080 has been used for the webcam. It seems to work fine for me, but would really like a few people to check it for me please?
I am happy to share information on the IP camera used and how I managed to get both a static image directly out of it and a stream for IPCAMLIVE to rebroadcast if that is of interest to people.