Webcam script for NVRs

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!

It’s webcam_cron.php

Tested so far with the FTP backup features of Lorex, Uniview, and Reolink NVRs

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Hi l was using All Sky Cam Uploader software its stopped working on my windows 10 laptop :disappointed: 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 ?