IpCamTalk Wall Idea.

[dalepa]

I had a thought...

It would be interesting to have a site where members could use BI to FTP images and post semi-live (every minute or so) photos from their cameras to a "wall"

It would be cool to see all the cams updating from one website, filter cams by vendor, model,etc..

BI already does posting every X seconds, so we just need a website to take pics and organize and display them.

Maybe a site already exists lite this...

Thought end

 

[hmjgriffon]

I had a thought...

It would be interesting to have a site where members could use BI to FTP images and post semi-live (every minute or so) photos from their cameras to a "wall"

It would be cool to see all the cams updating from one website, filter cams by vendor, model,etc..

BI already does posting every X seconds, so we just need a website to take pics and organize and display them.

Maybe a site already exists lite this...

Thought end

I'm bout it, as long as we can restrict which cams go up, I don't want people seeing my indoor cams.

 

[dalepa]

I'm bout it, as long as we can restrict which cams go up, I don't want people seeing my indoor cams.

Yep, you can post individual via the POST tab... I already post my cloudcam to wunderground

pretty simple to do via BI...

I bet there's a photo service out there that does this already... looking now..

 

[hmjgriffon]

yep, you can post individual via the post tab... I already post my cloudcam to wunderground

pretty simple to do via bi...

I bet there's a photo service out there that does this already... Looking now..


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noice.

 

[bp2008]

I've been wanting to build something like that for a long time. I kind of did, but all the cams are hard coded and the FTP accounts have to be set up separately and everything is a mess. Also it can be slow at times since it is on Godaddy's cheapest hosting plan that has unlimited disk space. In this particular example, 5 of the cams on that page are completely 3rd party cams that we only just link to from that one page, but 7 of them are using FTP. The one on the lower right without a caption is a Hik 2032.

But I've always wanted to rebuild this in a way where I could log in and set up an account for someone in 30 seconds.

 

[hmjgriffon]

I've been wanting to build something like that for a long time. I kind of did, but all the cams are hard coded and the FTP accounts have to be set up separately and everything is a mess. Also it can be slow at times since it is on Godaddy's cheapest hosting plan that has unlimited disk space. In this particular example, 5 of the cams on that page are completely 3rd party cams that we only just link to from that one page, but 7 of them are using FTP. The one on the lower right without a caption is a Hik 2032.

But I've always wanted to rebuild this in a way where I could log in and set up an account for someone in 30 seconds.

Judging by your BI projects and that PTZ interface you built, I'm gonna say you could do a very good job, if all you need is a place to host it I am sure someone could come up with some space.

 

[bp2008]

Perhaps. Most web hosts are really stingy with disk space though, if not bandwidth too. At 10 minute upload intervals, each camera tends to use 5 to 10+ GB per year which really starts to add up when you've got a lot of cameras running for years. I think that site is up to about 200 GB of disk usage, for example, with just 7 cameras being stored there and most of them only online for about 3 years average. So this type of thing would fill up most disk quotas in a matter of 2 or 3 years, if not months.

Anyway Godaddy has "unlimited disk space" in their relatively cheap hosting plans, but they have a hidden limit of 250,000 files and when you exceed that they complain and say it slows down their backups if people have that many files. Apparently they give you about 3 days to fix it too. So about a year back I had to delete 2 years worth of pics from a bunch of cams and hack my app to store all new pics in a single file per camera per day. So it is a real mess up there and sooner or later I will be replacing that web app with a new smarter one that anyone can install and use on their own web server with their own cameras.

 

[hmjgriffon]

Perhaps. Most web hosts are really stingy with disk space though, if not bandwidth too. At 10 minute upload intervals, each camera tends to use 5 to 10+ GB per year which really starts to add up when you've got a lot of cameras running for years. I think that site is up to about 200 GB of disk usage, for example, with just 7 cameras being stored there and most of them only online for about 3 years average. So this type of thing would fill up most disk quotas in a matter of 2 or 3 years, if not months.

Anyway Godaddy has "unlimited disk space" in their relatively cheap hosting plans, but they have a hidden limit of 250,000 files and when you exceed that they complain and say it slows down their backups if people have that many files. Apparently they give you about 3 days to fix it too. So about a year back I had to delete 2 years worth of pics from a bunch of cams and hack my app to store all new pics in a single file per camera per day. So it is a real mess up there and sooner or later I will be replacing that web app with a new smarter one that anyone can install and use on their own web server with their own cameras.

Make it like 4chan, except images get to stay up for like a week unless they are deemed worthy of an archive lol.