ENGLISH - Installation of Webcam, and FTP all datato website
Verfasst: 10 Mär 2009 13:20
The local school in the Whirinaki Rainforest, North Island NZ, have installed an IROX weatherstation at Community web portal http://www.whirinaki.org.nz.
Our weatherstation installation is described at http://www.kaitiakitanga.net/projects/1 ... energy.htm. The webpage that will display this foir the world is at http://www.whirinakirainforest.info/weather
We have got PC Wetter operating in stand alone mode but have two items to complete it.
1. We have installed CoreFTP- Lite to upload weather information to our webpage hosted by our ISP. We can manually transfer the files required perfectly using the Core FTP control panel. However when calling for FTP transfers in command line mode from Wetter (after hourly readings have been processed and web files created) FTP seems to run but no transfer to the website happens. If anyone else has done a similar thing and can help us (in English sorry) sort out the solution we need, that will be greatly appreciated.
2. We also want to take a webcam image every hour and FTP that up to the ISP hosted site as well.
(a) Has anyone got any advice as to the quality pf webcam needed to convey local condition under a wide range of light conditions. We assume it need to have good iris control.
(b) Can anyone recommend a simple webcam scanning program (pref freeware) that will do this for us from where (a) will FTP it to the site after each hourly scan.
(c) As we want the whole weatherstation installation to be powered off a 10 w solar panel, we want to power up the Wetter Laptop automatically using its Bios timer, start Wetter, get IROX Data, process readings, get and store the webcam image readings, FTP data to the website, then power down (with a hardware wakeup scheduled for the next hour) Has anyone done anything like this who could advise us please.
I am helping the school set this up initially. I am not a software Guru, nor are the young students who will keep it going. However we hope to have an IT Student team from The Auckland University of Technology start soon to sort out the final installation and make it robust enough for a school environment. They will store hourly records collected by Wetter on the school server where it will be used for assignment / research work. There are other schools already interested in installing a similar configuration for their learning programmes.
My email is pgoldsbury@stratex.co.nz
Regards
Peter
_________________
www.kaitiakitanga.net
NZ User of Wetterstation at Te Whaiti School
Our weatherstation installation is described at http://www.kaitiakitanga.net/projects/1 ... energy.htm. The webpage that will display this foir the world is at http://www.whirinakirainforest.info/weather
We have got PC Wetter operating in stand alone mode but have two items to complete it.
1. We have installed CoreFTP- Lite to upload weather information to our webpage hosted by our ISP. We can manually transfer the files required perfectly using the Core FTP control panel. However when calling for FTP transfers in command line mode from Wetter (after hourly readings have been processed and web files created) FTP seems to run but no transfer to the website happens. If anyone else has done a similar thing and can help us (in English sorry) sort out the solution we need, that will be greatly appreciated.
2. We also want to take a webcam image every hour and FTP that up to the ISP hosted site as well.
(a) Has anyone got any advice as to the quality pf webcam needed to convey local condition under a wide range of light conditions. We assume it need to have good iris control.
(b) Can anyone recommend a simple webcam scanning program (pref freeware) that will do this for us from where (a) will FTP it to the site after each hourly scan.
(c) As we want the whole weatherstation installation to be powered off a 10 w solar panel, we want to power up the Wetter Laptop automatically using its Bios timer, start Wetter, get IROX Data, process readings, get and store the webcam image readings, FTP data to the website, then power down (with a hardware wakeup scheduled for the next hour) Has anyone done anything like this who could advise us please.
I am helping the school set this up initially. I am not a software Guru, nor are the young students who will keep it going. However we hope to have an IT Student team from The Auckland University of Technology start soon to sort out the final installation and make it robust enough for a school environment. They will store hourly records collected by Wetter on the school server where it will be used for assignment / research work. There are other schools already interested in installing a similar configuration for their learning programmes.
My email is pgoldsbury@stratex.co.nz
Regards
Peter
_________________
www.kaitiakitanga.net
NZ User of Wetterstation at Te Whaiti School