Camera Paused for two Days

On Wednesday evening, right in the final preparations for my upcoming travel, I found an email in my inbox, from webcams.travel, where I had registered our Leeds Met Caedmon webcam: the email stated that the status of my webcam has changed, and that it was not active. That surprised me a little, because I had just seen it running ok before I left office. So I checked the live image on our web site - and indeed, it showed a picture from Tuesday morning! Since I had seen the capture on my PC working ok, I concluded that the problem must be with the ftp process onto the web server.

So just before travelling to the airport at 3:00 am, I stopped at Uni, asked the guards to let me into my office, and had a look at my PC. Indeed, the capture software was running fine, the image sequences were captured ok. But for some reason the check box for "ftp image" was unchecked... I corrected this and left for the airport.

Apologies to everyone for this mishap. The camera is now running ok. Fortunately the image series capture had been running all along, so there is no problem of missing images when I will assemble the time lapse series video.

Slower Capture Framerate

The web camera framerate had been set to 1 picture per minute, and all images since the beginning of the Marquee construction have been saved.

From tomorrow on (Thursday, 18.7.) I will be on travel for a few days, and in order to avoid a problem due to the HD filling up, I have reduced the capture frame rate to 1 picture every 5 minutes. Everybody who is using the widget for this camera on their website, will get the new framerate set automatically.

Current image setting is 640x480.

The current version of the software is 1.0.0.374 - a small bugfix has been applied to correct an error in the automatic image numbering while saving an image series.

Sometimes Over-Exposure of Cam Image

The webcam sometimes does not properly expose the image. This happens despite all setting being on automatic. Most often this happens when the frame rate is set quite low: at 5 fps this seems to happen constantly, while it very rarely happens at 30 fps.

Today early aftenooon I noticed this overexposer and have reset the framerate from 5 to 30 fps - now the exposer appears to be ok.

Preparation for the Graduation Marquee

This morning, the Acre has been fenced off, for the preparation of the building of the Marquee. Yesterday I had turned the camera towards the Acre, to show how students are enjoying the warm and sunny weather in the grass.

I now leave the camera pointed towards the Acre, and I have set the camera to record the images in a series. This will document the building of the marquee from the very beginning.