FTP - IP Camera Image

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Hi all,
I have a Davis weather station which has been running for years now,and publishes its readings to my webpage.

On the webpage I have a web cam image showing current conditions which is uploaded on a regular schedule by a program called 'Yawcam'. I have now replaced the webcam with an Hikvision IP camera and have run into a couple of issues.

1) Yawcam does not recognise the RTSP streaming format so it can't connect to the camera, so that's ruled that out of uploading.

2) I can, and have uploaded images to my web host directly from the IP Camera, however the images are individually timestamped so I cant simply add a link to an image to display the latest image (I gave the Yawcam a simple name for the images it uploaded so it simply overwrote the image on the server with the latest image).

Ideally what I need is a simple program that will run on my PC that sees the image from the IP Camera and uploads it on a regular interval (say every 5 minutes) but keeps the same image name.

Are there any recommendations out there as I seem to be struggling.

Many thanks

Nottub
 

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I also have a Davis Instruments, it's a Vantage Vue 6250. I FTP a still image every 5 minutes to my webpage, but it's done by Blue Iris.

You're on a Blue Iris forum, but it appears you either don't have BI or don't use it for that purpose. Which is it?

Also, I am curious about the HTML code used to display the image on your webpage uploaded directly by the IP Camera. Such as

<img src="broadcast.jpg"> or the like.
 

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Hi,

I don't have 'Blue Iris' (yet) and am still using my old webcam through 'Yawcam' direct to my web host.

The new IP camera is currently uploading to Weather Underground (as of half an hour or so ago) directly via the camera FTP function. I had difficulty with the timestamp of an image file name on my own website but this is sorted out by Weather Underground.

I was looking at Blue Iris to see if it would fulfil the role of taking a live image from the webcam, giving it a set filename and uploading to my web host.

With regards the live streaming I was trying to avoid opening up my network to incoming traffic and the associated threats.


I'm not experienced in all these protocols and transfers, I only have a limited knowledge.

BTW I have an old Weather Monitor II which has been running since 1999 with all the associated readings since then.

What do you think of Blue Iris? Will it do what I want it to do? Is it worth the outlay?


Kind regards

Nottub
 
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