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Weather Station Hardware => Weather Web Cams => Topic started by: DAVE Z on March 02, 2019, 11:41:22 PM

Title: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: DAVE Z on March 02, 2019, 11:41:22 PM

I am using Image Salsa to grab images and FTP them to my website. It has some great features including the time stamping  and FTP. However it will not grab the image on my DLINK IP CAMERA. There are some local cameras I would like to grab an image from also but it refuses. I can copy the URL from these cameras and put the URL in a browser Window they pull up an Image but I.S. yields nothing. Is there other software I can use? I have seen Blue Iris mentioned. Also Webcam XP PRO.

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: SteveFitz1 on March 03, 2019, 12:12:15 AM

I, too, used Image Salsa several years ago then moved to WebcamXP Pro. However, I moved to Blue Iris a few years back. It's a great product and works well with all my different versions of IP cameras.

Steve

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: ConligWX on March 03, 2019, 04:38:14 AM

you could try iptimelapse

http://iptimelapse.com/

know a few people who use this in Windows.

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: Cutty Sark Sailor on March 03, 2019, 11:10:39 AM

I still use my Webcam 7 live stream /stills and overlays.. ... for other files use FLING, and some smaller stuff... I don't worry about time-lapse... If I've an event warranting it, I'll take over manually...
Still Slideshow link... (if cursor over image, it pauses)
http://frankfortweather.us/still/seq.html

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: ke9lz on March 03, 2019, 06:16:15 PM

I also used Image Salsa for many years but ended up switching to a combination of Iptimelapse for uploading my cam images as well as time lapse and use Netcam Studio for the live and motion detection that I wanted.  Both have worked flawless for me.  http://weather.athelstanewi.com/wxwebcam.php (http://weather.athelstanewi.com/wxwebcam.php)

Steve

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: ConligWX on March 03, 2019, 06:30:32 PM

Personally I just use a bash script since the image is processed on my Webserver (linux)

wget - to grab a snapshot image
Process a template file for what  weather values I want on the image
Then use Imagik's "convert" to add the layers and values onto the top and bottom of the image.
copy the image to a base image for the website, updating it every minute.
Convert another image for WU (150kb)
upload the WU image every 5 minutes using a different script in Crontab.

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: DAVE Z on March 08, 2019, 05:06:37 PM

I looked into  IPTIMELAPSE and it is exactly what I need. Thanks

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: SoMDWx on March 14, 2019, 05:18:33 PM

Does IPTimeLaspe work with USB cameras (local)?

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: Bushman on March 14, 2019, 05:26:05 PM

As long as the USB camera can store a JPG locally - yes. (AFAIK)  You need the pro version to do overposting of data, though.

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: SoMDWx on March 14, 2019, 05:27:46 PM

Then you still need something like ImageSalsa to grab the actual video from the USB camera then it goes to IPTimeLapse.

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: Bushman on March 14, 2019, 06:45:14 PM

Or http://www.nirsoft.net/video_streaming_capture.html if this is video.

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: SoMDWx on March 14, 2019, 06:51:25 PM

Sorry for the confusion...

I have a Logitech 9000 webcam (USB) that ImageSalsa captured...

I don't know it IPTimeLapse can grab the video from the camera directly or do you need an intermediate program to do that?

Jim

Title: Re: Image Salsa alternate
Post by: thomas on March 14, 2019, 09:40:42 PM

If your camera has some command line scripts, this can be put in IPtimelapse to grab a picture.

Something like this:   DCS-936L - http://IPADDRESS:PORT_NUMBER/mjpeg.cgi?user=[USERNAME]&password=[PASSWORD]