Hi all!
For those that do not have a webcam with the easiest FTP image uploading capability, i made a PHP script that can run in crontab that will take backup snapshots uploaded to a different directory by an NVR (or DVR), find the most recent file, copy and rename, then purge the extra backup files to keep the clutter off your web server.
Was wondering if there was interest, and/or if i may share it?
By amazing coincidence I just installed a NVR today so it may be of interest to me. I’ve only installed two indoor cameras so far so don’t have useful images to capture yet, and I haven’t investigated to find out how easy it would be to capture direct from the NVR.
Feel free to upload your script because it may be just what I’m looking for soon!
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Hi l was using All Sky Cam Uploader software its stopped working on my windows 10 laptop 
need a new app, or something to work with my usb video capture module. It’s been so long doing work on my sky cam I just don’t know where to start to add a new way of uploading images from my sky cam any help would be greatly appreciated
EDIT: After reading about AllSkyCam, given that it was discontinued in 2015, you may have better luck running it on Windows 7 or older. If you have a NAS or other way that you can run a legacy version of Windows OS as a virtual machine and pass the USB connection directly thru to the VM from the host, you may want to try that.
If you were using a Linux-based desktop OS, like Debian or Ubuntu, i could probably scrape something together. Unfortunately, i am not a Windows guru.
If you’d share the details of your usb camera, i may be able to develop something that you could run on a Raspberry Pi ?
Hello, I apologize for the delay in my response; I’ve been undergoing heart tests.
The camera in question is a CCTV that is directed towards a dome made of stainless steel mirror.
Cam info
Currently, the camera is attached to a USB video adapter, and I have Snagit running in the background. Snagit captures images and then uploads them to my website. I would prefer to use a different application.
My weather station is set up on another computer, so the camera operates on a Windows 10 laptop.
This is the image I get , snagit is setup to take a capture every 5 minutes then uploading to website, still setting up the software, some times the FTP gets an upload error something is putting the FTP to sleep
Firstly, i hope your medical testing went well and wish for you the best in your health!
My apologies for the delayed response. I typically suppress email notifications to prevent them from filling my inbox, and I don’t sign in to this forum on a regular basis.
Since i don’t have an AllSkyCam to dabble with, it would be helpful to know if the usb device driver is a generic video capture device, or something more proprietary.
If it is a generic capture device, it may be possible to create a bash script for a debian-based raspberry pi on a scheduled crontab to capture an image, rename it, then perform an FTP push to your desired server.
Due to multiple requests (which i assume originated here), i have renamed one of my GitHub repositories to be dedicated to projects related to the weather-watch forum and PWS_Dashboard.
If i am allowed, and if you wouldn’t mind, kindly open an issue on my GitHub and mark it as a feature request. That will help me to better organize these requests and projects.
I could not edit this post, perhaps because too much time has passed. The link for webcam_cron has changed, as i’ve reorganized the repository.
You are correct. Posts do lock for edits after a while.
It’s too bad that the posts lock edits, i feel bad deleting and then re-adding posts for link corrections.
I have finally settled on the new directory structure of the repo:
Sub-folders exist within this repo for each project.
All previously posted links are likely defunct.
@administrator are you able to remove the previous links, but keep the posts otherwise intact?
I have added scripts to support USB-attached cameras, as well as support for a limited selection of unifi protect cameras - subject to their capabilities.
I’ve removed two URLs. I think that’s all that needed doing. If I’ve missed anything please let me know.
Post edit locking is a little more nuanced than I previously suggested. It depends on your ‘Trust Level’ in the forum. As you use the forum more your Trust Level will increase and as that happens more functions become enabled. At your Trust Level (1) you aren’t allowed to edit posts after a period. At the next level you will be allowed to edit forever.
This is partly done because new users sometimes don’t use the forum in the best way. For example, what should happen is
Post 1 - OP - I’m having this problem
Post 2 - Someone replying - have you tried this…
Post 3 - OP - Yes, and everything turned red, etc
New users sometimes do this…
Post 1 - OP - I’m having this problem…
Post 2 - Someone replying - Have you tried this…
OP - Editing post 1 to now say - Yes and everything turned red…
This removes details of the original problem and makes the discussion difficult to follow.
Also, not everyone gets notified about edited posts, but (if you have notifications turned on) most people are notified of new posts. So if you edit an older post the intended audience may not see the changes.
I hope that makse sense?
If you fancy a wee project, Michael, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 and the Pi HQ camera in a housing, with 180° lens as an AllSky camera.
The software for the Pi is called AllSky and is available here:
The AllSky software takes & uploads still images, creates a timelapse video as well as a Kiogram & Star Trails image. Best thing, it does everything on it’s own through the RPi, you just tell it where to FTP the images & videos.
You can see mine here: Lochaber Weather - AllSky Camera
