Hi folks,
Just fiddling about with my webcam stuff on my site. I’m currently uploading data stamped images ported through WD and an animated image showing 8 frames (1MB!), but I’d like to use the java applet that’s packaged in with WD. I’ve uploaded the html page it says to, plus the buttons and these are accessable fine. The problem is getting it to upload the webcam images to play in the applet… how do I do this for this purpose?
Ta for any help…
Sam,
That setup screen is under the Control Panel Web Cam button and you have to have it set to create time stamped files and also under the tab Java web page setup screen ticked for “Upload time stamped web cam files”.
If you keep having problems maybe posting a couple of screen shots of your setup files would help.
-Bob
Hi Bob,
I have all those settings set and I see it has created files named cam0.jpg through cam23.jpg on the server, which I presume are the hourly images for the java viewer? It doesn’t seem to want to upload them though. Do they need to be created in a particular place for WD to find them?
In the separate WD web cam capture .exe setup you have a directory set to save the files to? It has been so long since I set mine up I can’t remember the exact steps I took.
-Bob
Well I’ve not used webcamcapture.exe program as my camera FTP’s the image direct to my AWS Servers hard drive. Under control panel, webcam, Current webcam image/main settings, setup image settings for other webcam capture software image - I’ve set a source file, custom tags to show on the image and a location to produce and save a jpeg too, This is then uploaded and can be seen at http://www.photoweather.com/aws/cam/ as working ok. It is merrily using this image to create both time stamped files and cam0.jpg to cam23.jpg, which WD is saving in the same directory as the file you can see above. All that seems to be missing is finding some way to explicitly tell WD which files to upload for the javacamviewer and where to put them. WD seems to be producing the files on the server, just not uploading them…
Thanks for your assistance btw Bob… 
Sam,
Just for fun, LOL
Try enabling “Upload to my web site” from “Webcam images from day” on the View Screen…
never know LOL
-Bob
Already had all the ones that upload daily ticked, but I’ve ticked the other one now too. No sign of them being uploaded yet, but let’s see what happens in an hours time… perhaps the daily upload will kick things into action… :-k
Nope, still didn’t upload the necessary images as the day rolled over…
Sorry Sam,
I have run out of ideas 
Maybe Brian will pop by with the specific function that uploads those files…
-Bob
Thanks for your help anyway Bob… should give Brian plenty to go on when he surfaces! 
Does anyone else actually use this facility?
I’m thinking that the all day video is more popular -
Certainly looks more swish and I’ll have a go at that too, but a sizeable movie file isn’t as user friendly for someone on a low bandwidth connection, so I’d like the javacamviewer working too really…
Any idea Brian?
