A simple Webcam????

[Peppercorn]

I am wondering if anyone can tell me where I can get webcam software??

It's not for anything naughty!

I want to set up a surveilance camera on my dog to find out where/how he is getting out of the yard. I want to watch it via Gkrellkam.

I have tried Gnomemeeting but I cannot get it compiled. I just keep going round and round in circles because it needs all these files that either are installed or cannot be found.

 

Thanks in advance

[Steve Scrimpshire]

A simple one would be http://gecius.de/vgrabbj/ You would start it as root in the directory you want the file saved into like this

 

[root@omarserenity omar]# cd /home/omar
[root@omarserenity omar]# vgrabbj -l 1 -f watchmydog.jpg -g
Forking for daemon mode

 

That sets it to take a snapshot every second and then you can set up gkrellmkam to update every second and to use the image (in my example that would be /home/omar/watchmydog.jpg)

 

Does that help?

Edited November 26, 2003 by Steve Scrimpshire

[aRTee]

urpmi camstream

urpmi SDLcam

 

should get you going; there's also a program called 'motion' ...

 

More info here:

(don't know how much is only for philips based cams, not all of it for sure)

http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/index.html

http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/working.html

[Peppercorn]

Hey thanks a lot guys!

 

I have given that vgrabbj a go and it is exactly what I want!!!

Thanks heaps.