Hello everyone.
I recently built a web site / application that some of you might be interested in.
Basically how it works is this:
1. You set up a camera to periodically send JPEG snapshots to a computer/server via FTP.
2. In the Timelapse software you "add a camera" much like you would in Blue Iris. You tell it where to find the JPEG snapshots and you tell it how to read the timestamp.
3. The Timelapse software organizes these images chronologically and presents everything in a simple web interface.
There is a little more to it than that, of course. You can see my very-customized instance of it running live, here: http://www.romehill.com/All.html (FYI the camera labeled just "Camera" is a Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I)
Technically this has existed in one form or another for about 7 years. It started as a software project that I "inherited" from my brother. It grew more and more unwieldy until about a month ago I decided to rewrite it and make it easy to use. I call this rewritten version "Timelapse Camera Archive". One of my secondary goals was to make it something that anyone could install and use themselves. So it is free and open source so if you like it and want to run a copy if it yourself, you can check out the (early) project page here: http://timelapse.codeplex.com/
When it comes to actually running the software, I tried to make it as flexible as possible. It can run as a command line application, a Windows Service, or as an ASP.NET web application. So right now I have it running in a cheap Godaddy shared hosting account because they offer "unlimited" storage space and bandwidth, but it could run on any old Windows box (XP or newer). It should even be compatible with the Mono Project so it would run on a Mac or Linux box as well (though I have not tried, I don't see why not).
I recently built a web site / application that some of you might be interested in.
Basically how it works is this:
1. You set up a camera to periodically send JPEG snapshots to a computer/server via FTP.
2. In the Timelapse software you "add a camera" much like you would in Blue Iris. You tell it where to find the JPEG snapshots and you tell it how to read the timestamp.
3. The Timelapse software organizes these images chronologically and presents everything in a simple web interface.
There is a little more to it than that, of course. You can see my very-customized instance of it running live, here: http://www.romehill.com/All.html (FYI the camera labeled just "Camera" is a Hikvision DS-2CD2032-I)
Technically this has existed in one form or another for about 7 years. It started as a software project that I "inherited" from my brother. It grew more and more unwieldy until about a month ago I decided to rewrite it and make it easy to use. I call this rewritten version "Timelapse Camera Archive". One of my secondary goals was to make it something that anyone could install and use themselves. So it is free and open source so if you like it and want to run a copy if it yourself, you can check out the (early) project page here: http://timelapse.codeplex.com/
When it comes to actually running the software, I tried to make it as flexible as possible. It can run as a command line application, a Windows Service, or as an ASP.NET web application. So right now I have it running in a cheap Godaddy shared hosting account because they offer "unlimited" storage space and bandwidth, but it could run on any old Windows box (XP or newer). It should even be compatible with the Mono Project so it would run on a Mac or Linux box as well (though I have not tried, I don't see why not).
