View from Caedmon Hall onto the Acre

The image should refresh itself automatically. If it does not appear, then reload the page.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Webcam server ok again

The server has now been completely upgraded. Image delivery works fine, the images are routed again to the Leeds Met server.

Temporary URL for webcam

Due to the server problems, I have moved the live webcam to another domain. The captured image as shown above is now at http://www.reinholdbehringer.co.uk/_LiveCam/index.php
If you have any links in your web pages, linking to the original site, you might want to update the URL to this one.

Server update - camera is out for a while...

On Sunday, 13.9., an upgrade of the basic server scripting components was carried out. For some reason, this affected the web cam software as well. I am investigating what the problem is.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Problems with Opera Browser on Windows Mobile

As I have just found out, the mobile webcam site that I wrote for displaying the webcam image on a mobile phone web browser does not work well on the Opera web browser (ver. 9.5, build 15445) on Windows Mobile 6.1.

With the default display setting "Mobile View" checked, the image is not shown at all. With the "Mobile View" unchecked, the image is shown, but the whole page is reduced to fit on the screen. This is independent of the setting "Automatic full screen".

The reason appears to be that Opera tells JavaScript an incorrect screen size. The screen on my mobile phone is 240 pixels wide, which is correctly reported by Mobile Internet Explorer. But Opera reports 480 pixels wide. This leads to a too large request of the image, which then is squeezed onto the narrow screen, by reducing also the rest of the web site (text from this blog). Therefore, the text becomes unreadable.

Also, in the process of the size reduction, Opera adds white space to the side of the image. hereby not only reducing it by a factor 2 from 480 to 240 pixels, but reducing it even further, although the web page is set up to show the image as 100% of the page width. Works ok in any browser on a regular PC, but Opera here does something wrong.

The mobile webcam site appears to work correctly as intended on MS Mobile Internet Explorer.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Camera Outage

During the summer break, the camera had been running fine, until on 21.August, 7:04, the server restarted. I will have to identify why this happened. Since I was not here to restart also the capture software, the web cam website only displayed the last captured image from that morning.

It is up and running now, currently capturing at a rate of 1 picture per minute, without saving the image series.