Fri 30 Jan 2009
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:
May 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hi,
I use these cameras too. What did you use for the waterproof enclosure? I need to be able to use these outside, but haven’t been able to come up with a good design on the enclosure.
Thanks!
-Brian
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 pm
I used a small plastic box with a snap lid from the craft store I believe it was designed for holding index cards. The box had a lip where I could put weather stripping.
I cut a hole in the top of the box and replaced it with a piece of acrylic glass. I used hot melt glue to hold the glass inside the hole.