Birdcam?

[asterroc]

So now that I've got a Macbook w/ a built in camera, what do I need to do so I can have a Gabe-cam? :-P I was hoping I could use Automator to have Photobooth take a photo every hour and upload it to server space I have, but Automator can't seem to run Photobooth. Anyone know Macs and stuff better than I? I know there's such a thing as a "chron job" that I could write to have happen in unix to upload the files, but I don't know about actually taking the picture.

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[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I use CamSpiner (http://www.optima-system.com/camspinner/) on my Macs.

Publish a web cam on the Internet
Grab still images
Record and save QuickTime and MPEG movies

CamSpinner is the perfect companion to your iSight and it also works with FireWire and USB cameras supported by QuickTime in Mac OS X.

CamSpinner features:

• Built-in automatic FTP uploading of images
• Support for Mac OS X Apache web sharing
• Customizable WebCam page templates
• WebCam history
• Custom on-line/off-line messages
• AppleScript support
• OS X Keychain support

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hm, not sure it'll work with my server, it wants sftp or scp. I'll play around a bit. Thanks!

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Just went through the manual; looks like it only does FTP. What a gip! I'm running it directly on my home web server and never checked into it before. Sorry. I suppose you could have it save images to a local directory and then script an SFTP transfer from that folder...