For any of you that use Blue Iris CCTV software, there's an option to overlay data from an external file onto the display. This allows you to write a small script to show weather data from Cumulus on the CCTV image.
To get a decent amount of weather data on the overlay, you end up using an awful lot of image "real estate", so my VBScript pulls data from Cumulus's realtime.txt file and outputs a selection of weather parameters on a sequential basis with a 5-second delay.
An example of the results can be seen in the attached video. The weather data I have selected is displayed in the top-right corner. Any of the available parameters can be used and they can be different for each camera up to a maximum of ten cameras. The video shows an outdoor camera with corresponding outdoor data, but I have indoor temperature and indoor humidity overlaid on my indoor cameras.
Welcome to the Cumulus Support forum.
Latest Cumulus MX V3 release 3.28.6 (build 3283) - 21 March 2024
Cumulus MX V4 beta test release 4.0.0 (build 4019) - 03 April 2024
Legacy Cumulus 1 release 1.9.4 (build 1099) - 28 November 2014
(a patch is available for 1.9.4 build 1099 that extends the date range of drop-down menus to 2030)
Download the Software (Cumulus MX / Cumulus 1 and other related items) from the Wiki
Latest Cumulus MX V3 release 3.28.6 (build 3283) - 21 March 2024
Cumulus MX V4 beta test release 4.0.0 (build 4019) - 03 April 2024
Legacy Cumulus 1 release 1.9.4 (build 1099) - 28 November 2014
(a patch is available for 1.9.4 build 1099 that extends the date range of drop-down menus to 2030)
Download the Software (Cumulus MX / Cumulus 1 and other related items) from the Wiki
Weather Data Overlay onto CCTV
- WirelessCH
- Posts: 9
- Joined: Thu 29 Dec 2011 12:59 pm
- Weather Station: Watson W-8681
- Operating System: Windows 7 Pro
- Location: Switzerland
- Contact:
Weather Data Overlay onto CCTV
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Watson W-8681 -- Windows 7 HP -- HP ProLiant Microserver
Website : www.five-hundred.com (hosted locally)
Weather Underground : IVAUDBUR2
Met Office WOW : 23607968
Website : www.five-hundred.com (hosted locally)
Weather Underground : IVAUDBUR2
Met Office WOW : 23607968
- William Grimsley
- Posts: 833
- Joined: Thu 22 Sep 2011 5:22 pm
- Weather Station: Davis Vantage Vue
- Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- Location: Latitude: 50.70189285 Longitude: -3.30849957
- Contact:
Re: Weather Data Overlay onto CCTV
If you really want to get some nice data on your IP Camera, use Webcam 7 to do it, it looks really nice on there.
- Werk_AG
- Posts: 198
- Joined: Sun 13 Jan 2013 8:04 pm
- Weather Station: WeatherDuino 4Pro
- Operating System: Windows 7
- Location: Cercal CDV - Portugal
- Contact:
Re: Weather Data Overlay onto CCTV
Nice ideia... I also use Blue Iris for CCTV. Can you please publish your script, or give me some direction do build one myself.WirelessCH wrote:For any of you that use Blue Iris CCTV software, there's an option to overlay data from an external file onto the display. This allows you to write a small script to show weather data from Cumulus on the CCTV image.
I'm not a programmer, but if it's not too complicated I can try.
Regards
-
- Posts: 29
- Joined: Tue 31 Jul 2012 2:08 pm
- Weather Station: Davis Vantage Vue
- Operating System: Raspbian on Pi B+
- Location: United States
- Contact:
Re: Weather Data Overlay onto CCTV
If your site is running on a linux system, you can also overlay next with image ImageMagick and pull the temp/windspeed out of realtime.txt
http://www.warrenskywarn.org/weather/shot2_000.jpg
http://www.warrenskywarn.org/weather/shot2_000.jpg
- Werk_AG
- Posts: 198
- Joined: Sun 13 Jan 2013 8:04 pm
- Weather Station: WeatherDuino 4Pro
- Operating System: Windows 7
- Location: Cercal CDV - Portugal
- Contact:
Re: Weather Data Overlay onto CCTV
Thanks for the sugestion.
The system where I run Blue Iris is a Windows system.
The system where I run Blue Iris is a Windows system.