To help get wildlife counts we have been using the SkyIPCam500W as a wildlife camera.
Since it is not an outdoor camera we built a weather housing.
Details on the camera:
aicn500w
The neat thing about this camera is that it has a built in web server. It has built in motion detection with triggers. Those triggers can be set to ftp a still to a server whenever its triggered. It also has a built in time trigger. So it is possible to say email or ftp a still every so often.
I wanted the server on my local network to poll the camera once per minute and save a photo for each day. I wrote shell scripts to do that. During my reasearch on the camera I found some special URLs that allow you to interact with the camera.
Some of special urls: (assuming everything is setup as the default)
To get one jpeg image from camera:
lynx -auth=admin:admin -source http://192.168.1.240/cgi/jpg/image.cgi >image.jpg
To save the video stream:
lynx -source -auth=admin:admin http://192.168.1.240/cgi/mjpg/mjpeg.cgi >video.mjpeg
To change the brightness/contrast and osd:
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