MikeCam!

I always feel like somebody's watching me . . .

Camera 1

Camera 2

It took me a while (like a couple of years), but I finally got around to setting up a webcam. I'm grabbing images every 60 seconds, but only pushing every 5 minutes (currently), so that's what the refresh is set to. Don't bother reloading more often than that, it won't make a difference.

My current webcam hardware and software consists of:

• A Connectix (yes, pre-Logitech) Color QuickCam on the parallel port (yes, that really old one)
• The cqcam program (I usedto use the c-qcam video4linux driver, but it craps out in the dark, necessitating remembering to stop the grab or having to reload the kernel module in the morning)
• The stamp! program to timestamp images and transfer them outside my home machine.
• sitecopy to transfer the images to my webspace outside my home machine

What I plan to get:

• One or more X10 XCam2s, along with their Composite-to-USB interface. This will allow me to use 1 connection for 3 almost-simultaneous pics.
• A decent ISP so I don't need to ftp the images every few minutes

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