Fingers crossed some muppet tries to drive out of here. those who had my running commentary of the muppet trying to park his car last night can clearly see the offending vehicle in the middle of the image, cunning parked in the road, at a good angle to stop anyone trying to get by.
We are predicted another 6 inches of snow throughout the day today, and it's coming down as I type...
Had to take it down as I had
Had to take it down as I had approximately 64,000 hits on the site yesterday, which put me about 6 gig over my bandwidth limit. That'll teach me to put a link on Twitter!
I now have the images being taken every 10 minutes, and currently storing them locally...it's running on the laptop, so it can be left running indefinitely...should get a good defrost sequence. If I can find a free hosting option that allows FTP upload I'll get it live again...
How much bandwidth are you
How much bandwidth are you using for it??
I went through about 9.5 gig
I went through about 9.5 gig yesterday
I'd be happy to host that
I'd be happy to host that for you, if you're interested.
Ah ha! I love the geekery of
Ah ha! I love the geekery of this. :)
I'm trying to sort out
I'm trying to sort out dynamic DNS, and use teh laptop as the host, then host the HTML on IJY... if that doesn't work I'll get back to you...
Can someone
Can someone try
http://itsjustyou.webhop.net
and tell me what they see please? It might be some kind of weird internal network thingy...
404 Not found.
404 Not found.
Well, thats better than the
Well, thats better than the admin page for the router. I shall see if I can get a 3G connection to test it, as internal testing is gibing weird results...
I think that should now work
I think that should now work for everyone not on my home network now... it'w working through a web proxy.
Some weirdness with the laptop not being correctly registered on the router. Set up a static IP address, and generally hit a few things...
http://itsjustyou.webhop.net
Should show the webcam page
Firefox says Unable to
Firefox says Unable to connect
Try again, just rebooted the
Try again, just rebooted the laptop to make sure all the config was correct
Working now. Now you just
Working now. Now you just have to wait for the masses to come and visit the SnowCam again
...and watch my connection
...and watch my connection die!
The refresh rate is much lower now, and snow panic is a bit less than Wednesday...
Cheers for checking the links. Quite chuffed that I now have a server in the house :-)
Pete, are you time lapsing
Pete, are you time lapsing these, some of them are great!
Yep...all the images are
Yep...all the images are saved to the log (roughly 300 a day). I'll need to try and work out some way of balancing the light (the webcam has issues with daylight, and over-exposes, so I have to swap it between settigns morning and evening).
I've done a test run, and it's looking OK, but the real piccies will come with the thaw, as the roads and houses re-appear...
There might be a photoshop
There might be a photoshop batch way of doing it (actually, I am pretty sure there is).
You going to be charging
You going to be charging Tesco for their product placement?
I think PSP has it as well,
I think PSP has it as well, but it'll need some fiddling to get the levels right.
I'm impressed, a Tesco van just got in...if he doesn't get out again do we get salvage rights?
lol...how sad is that...a
lol...how sad is that...a post of the view out of my office window, as it is right now :-)
How sad is that - a Tesco
How sad is that - a Tesco van can leave your road but you can't.
Agreed... the downside of
Agreed... the downside of 2-wheeled transport.
Do you need us to send a St
Do you need us to send a St Bernard with supplies or something?
LOL, Nice fish!
LOL, Nice fish!