catcam | Make Tech Easier , Damien shows
kandi X-RAY | catcam Summary
kandi X-RAY | catcam Summary
catcam is a PHP library. catcam has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.
At Make Tech Easier, Damien shows how to set up a motion sensing webcam on Linux, and suggests storing the files on Dropbox to view from anywhere. Great idea!. This repo simply makes use of the Dropbox API to list the Dropbox files with file sizes. Why use the API and not just the Dropbox web site, you ask? Well, because Dropbox doesn't list how big the files are (at least not in 2017), giving no indication of which files have significant content ..not without clicking each file's properties, which, umm.. no.
At Make Tech Easier, Damien shows how to set up a motion sensing webcam on Linux, and suggests storing the files on Dropbox to view from anywhere. Great idea!. This repo simply makes use of the Dropbox API to list the Dropbox files with file sizes. Why use the API and not just the Dropbox web site, you ask? Well, because Dropbox doesn't list how big the files are (at least not in 2017), giving no indication of which files have significant content ..not without clicking each file's properties, which, umm.. no.
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To use the Dropbox API, go to https://dropbox.com/developers/apps to create an app and get a token. To protect my other Dropbox data, I chose to use the kind of app that's restricted to a single folder.
To use the Dropbox API, go to https://dropbox.com/developers/apps to create an app and get a token. To protect my other Dropbox data, I chose to use the kind of app that's restricted to a single folder.
After downloading or cloning this repo, use the config template to create a config/catcfg.inc file with the Dropbox app name and token. For example: $c = Array( 'app' => 'myunique_dropbox_catcam', 'tok' => '56YrsSSSSSSome-Long-64-Character-Token-For-Your-DropboxAPP_BBBgh', );
Setup and run motion to capture the videos. I have a cheap webcam on a Linux box that runs the motion application. When it senses motion (a field of a few hundred pixels has changed), it writes a movie file to the same folder that is owned by the Dropbox app. See Damien's article for information on setting up the Motion application. The following diff shows the only changes I made to Motion's configuration file, based on where my camera was placed and the approximate size of a cat on the far wall on my home.
Upload this catcam folder to your web site. Note: If you're site doesn't run Apache or allow .htaccess file overrides, hide your catcfg.inc file some other way, such as moving it out of the web folder to another location on your server. Update the include statements in the PHP scripts accordingly.
Point your browser to the /catcam/ folder on your web site and click away!
To use the Dropbox API, go to https://dropbox.com/developers/apps to create an app and get a token. To protect my other Dropbox data, I chose to use the kind of app that's restricted to a single folder.
After downloading or cloning this repo, use the config template to create a config/catcfg.inc file with the Dropbox app name and token. For example: $c = Array( 'app' => 'myunique_dropbox_catcam', 'tok' => '56YrsSSSSSSome-Long-64-Character-Token-For-Your-DropboxAPP_BBBgh', );
Setup and run motion to capture the videos. I have a cheap webcam on a Linux box that runs the motion application. When it senses motion (a field of a few hundred pixels has changed), it writes a movie file to the same folder that is owned by the Dropbox app. See Damien's article for information on setting up the Motion application. The following diff shows the only changes I made to Motion's configuration file, based on where my camera was placed and the approximate size of a cat on the far wall on my home.
Upload this catcam folder to your web site. Note: If you're site doesn't run Apache or allow .htaccess file overrides, hide your catcfg.inc file some other way, such as moving it out of the web folder to another location on your server. Update the include statements in the PHP scripts accordingly.
Point your browser to the /catcam/ folder on your web site and click away!
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