Topic: Webcam server

[van]

How to make SME5.5 support USB camera and streaming server

[Jan]

If anyone knows how to do this I'm very interested. Also support for normal camera's using coax would be nice since these are less troubled by the cabel length than us camera's.

regards,

Jan

[Schotty]

R u guys sure u want this on a firewall/gateway server???
I mean, sure its nice to think about a server that can do just about everything.....but its not realy effekive...or am i missing something

[Jan]

Schotty,

I'm using SME in server only mode. The streaming video could be used for security purposes. It doesn't need to be accessible from the internet.However what security problems do you mean? If I can run my webpages of of it why not my webcam?

regards,

Jan

[Matt]

Wouldn't it be better to just run the webcam off of another PC and use some webcam software to upload a new image to the e-smith server every 30 seconds or so?  That's what you'd normally do anyway.. and I mean, it makes sense considering that as Schotty said E-smith is meant to be a gateway/file server and that's more or less it.  I wouldn't think that it's so much of a security issue but more just that E-smith was designed for a purpose and it should be left at that.

[steve]

dont know about usb but chuck in an old wintv card and i think the software was 'camserv'

[jose velez]

Dlink/Trendware and others makes video camera with built in webserver with IP.  They are available in wire and wireless and you can see about 16 cameras at a time.  With vpn you could enter your site and see the cameras remotely.

[Craig Foster]

Have you got it working in frame capture mode first?

in /etc/modules.conf

pre-install usbvideo videodev usb_uhci
alias char-major-81 ov511 remove_zeros=1 debug=0

and use something like w3cam.cgi to take grabs. If that works, then you can look at streaming video.

[Chris]

Sorry to reignite this thread

I am trying to get my quickcam going on SME 5.5.

I have the driver on and it shows in the logs that it is being detected. What I can't do, is find some camera grabbing sw that doesn't need a stack of libraries that emsith does not have

Any Suggestons?

Thanks
Chris Parker

P.S - I realise it is not good practise to run a webcam on esmith but i would like to give it a go