playing around
Been meaning to mess around with the webcam to see how well it can pickup images in low light. It does amazingly well actually, considering it has no IR lighting built in. So I threw the laptop in ralph's rooms and put a low light 40 watt bulb in for backlight just for kicks.
hopefully he won't mind the extra light tonight. Guess we'll see if he wants to make his webcam debut or not....
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How come you don't use streaming video like you used to? I'm all Attention-Deficit and can't don't have the patience to sit and watch a still screen for 30 seconds!!! :p
Posted by: Nora | May 18, 2006 11:49 AM
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heh, yeah he's just sitting there....wonder if the light is bothering him....or he could be plotting to swallow your soul...:)
Posted by: d | May 18, 2006 11:49 AM
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Long story short, when I moved I lost my static IP's which I had for free. Which means I could no longer setup the WME to point to the server the camera was on.
Now I could technically use dynamic DNS to correlate a refernce to a new server and then use port filtering to redirect the streaming video to the same box but this time making use of my DHCP ip. But honestly, it isn't worth the hassle and I really don't want to leave a computer running here 24x7 that sounds like a small engine and costs money to run :)
Also, I really think he doesn't like the light...and I haven't felt like building an IR rig to give my webcam night vision yet....
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Posted by: Anonymous | May 18, 2006 11:49 AM
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Ralphie is looking at me from the tunnel. He is making me nervous, please make him stop!
Posted by: Tim | May 18, 2006 11:49 AM