High-Resolution Weather Cam

[maltbie]

Thanks to all of the great tips in this forum and specifically in this thread, I was inspired to get a digital camera to use as a webcam to share my view with the world.  It took me almost a month to figure out how to make it all work with WD/WDL, but the payoff is worth it.  Here are the results taken with a Canon A-520 hooked up to an old Dell C600 running Cam2Com uploading to www.westsandlakeweather.com:

[TokKiwi]

Brilliant example.  You can use WD to capture it as a local file on a LAN and add some weather details overlay detail to it as well...

[choc-a-holic]

Overlay and weatherdata is plotted by a php-script called with a rewrite-rule in htaccess-file so when visitor call the .jpg it is resent to the php instead.

Did you write the php-script yourself?  I would love to be able to have the photo date stamp on my webcam photos.  I did try using the utility provided in WD however there is a big degradation in photo quality which I was not happy with.

[niko]

Try Mike's php image handler http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts-image-handler.php

[choc-a-holic]

Try Mike's php image handler http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts-image-handler.php

It looks good... I will give it a go.  Have you tried it with WDL?

[niko]

No I haven't.

[choc-a-holic]

I just tried using Mike's PHP script, however it does not seem to work properly in WDL.  I didn't change much except, the location of the jpg and filename, and put some text in text1, 2, and 3 to see what happens.  I left everything else as default.  Has anyone else tried it?