• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Webcam as Weather Cam - Timed Shot Software

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czenzel

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Hi everyone,

I recently started looking into turning a web camera into a weather camera inside my house.

Can anybody recommend a software package (free or under $30) that I can get timed-based shots from the camera? My goal is to have a picture taken and upload it to my other machine via FTP or run a scheduled script to use SSH (SCP) to upload it to my server.

I have tried the Windows XP Powertoy (Timershot from Microsoft) and I had success with it, but I would like something that works with Vista as well. There was one Java software package I tried but I had little success with it (camera picture flickered too much).

The web camera I got was the Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000.

Thanks,
Christopher Zenzel
 
Another vote for Yawcam. Free and lots of features, I've run as many as three cameras in different locations with it. It's a java app though, so it's an inefficient resource hog. If you're running it on an older machine, you can't do anything else at the same time.
 
Flix isn't free, but $10 is cheap enough (shareware). You'll have a light watermark until you register.

Doesn't apply to the original questioner, but if you are a Logitech webcam (Vista) user you might want to play with a couple of free utilities from Logitech. It sounds like one of them might do time-lapse capture (at the very bottom of this page). Not sure what they mean by "time-delay recording function" to turn a web cam into a security cam.
 
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Thanks everyone for your input...

I think I am going to try YawCam. It seems that the latest Java update does cause flickers in the Camera Images. In their forums there is a way to fix it by updating a library. So I'll give it another try tonight.

Does anybody here also upload to Weather Underground (FTP) for Weather Cam Images?
 
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