Webcam "unsupervised" until 3.July

For the next 2 weeks, the webcam will remain in an unsupervised state. This means that it might be possible that due to a power outage the server would shut down, and no new images would be uploaded. The current refresh rate is set to one image per minute. This means that it can be seen from the date of the last image upload if the server is live or not.

During the past 2 weeks, one image has been recorded every minute. This allows that a video can be constructed from this image sequence, documenting the building of the Graduation Marquees on the Acre. Since there is still some construction / clean-up being done, this image storing will continue during the next 2 weeks.

Refresh Time Reduced: 60 seconds

During the Carnegie Great Student Run, the webcam was set to a refresh time of 10 seconds, so that viewers could get a rapid update of the acrivities in the Start/Finish area, where the camera was pointing to.

Now we have reduced the camera refresh time to 60 seconds, because the server bandwidth will be used for other purposes. This means that even if the refresh is set by an external website to a faster rate, there will only be a new image available every 60 seconds.

Since one week, the camera has slightly been turned towards the Acre, giving a vew of the Marquee tent which is being built for our upcoming Graduations and the Leeds Met Staff Development Festival in September. So for the next few months, the camera will show those big white tents.

I have set up the system to record a picture every minute, so that one can create a time-lapse recording of the tent contruction. We will see how this comes out...

Live image - embedded in any web site

This live image was embedded here with the following code:

< IFRAME src="http://creativetech.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/_LiveCam/index.phph=240&w=320" 
height='270' width=320 frameborder='0' >
< IFRAME >

This code snippet can be embedded in any other website. In this specific code it will show a 320x240 image, with the refresh time being encoded in the web site (this will be sometimes subject to change).

The users who embed the image can also parametrize this image more:

< IFRAME 
src="http://creativetech.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/_LiveCam/index.php?w=320&h=240&r=120&t=Leeds Met" 
height='270' width='320' frameborder='0' >
< IFRAME >

The parameters in the URL mean:
w = image with (both width and height parameters will create a resized image)
h = image height
r = refresh time in seconds (if the user wants the update in a certain interval)
t = caption text

In addition to the URL parameters, the IFRAME parameters need to be set properly to include the imave completely (height, width).

A full 640x480 image is shown when no h/w parameter appears in the URL:

< IFRAME 
src="http://creativetech.inn.leedsmet.ac.uk/_LiveCam/index.php" 
height='510' width='640' frameborder='0' >
< IFRAME >

Webcam Blog setup

This blog will serve simply as a log of activity re. the webcam. It appeared to be necessary to inform viewers about changes, outages, etc.
Nothing very deep here, just simple technical info.