Thought y'all might get a kick out of my methods...
So I'm still in the stages of only using WeatherLink and my free Earthlink hosting, but inspired by a thread in the Weather-Watch forum, hooked up an older Canon S30 digital cam for hi-res photos.
Click on the thumbnail on the main page
http://home.earthlink.net/~marcpilot1/weather It's only running during the day.
Here's what I'm doing.
1) Run Canon RemoteCapture utility program to take snapshot every 15 minutes. (not nearly as flexible as VM95 software)
2) Let WeatherLink create a DOS batch file by processing a *.htx file every 15 minutes--contains pertinent weather data and ImageMagick commands.
3) Using Windows scheduler, run the DOS batch file created in step 2.
4) DOS batch file calls ImageMagick to add bottom row of weather data to photo taken in 1. Also creates thumbnail.
5) Fling FTP program monitors folder for new file created in step 4, then FTP's to my website.
Manually start #1 on the hour, #2 starts on the hour, #3 offset by 3 minutes to make sure #1, #2 complete.
Could take an even higher res photo, but it would really be BIG... current one is good tradeoff between size and quality...
Rube Goldberg award? I just wanted to see if I could do it with what I had on hand and free software...
I've had a new site layout on paper for a while, just need to commit to some HTML code--one of these days...
