PiWebCam is an old school webcam script, that will upload an image from a webcam, to a web server.
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Follow setup bellow.
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Let the camera do it's thing.
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install fswebcam
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plugin your webcam and run
lsusb, and look for some text only used by the webcam (i.e. "Webcam C920").
Replace <CAM TEXT> with your elected text.
- Fill out server info
Replace <USER> with your server's username, <DOMAIN> with your server's domain/ip, and <PATH ENDING WITH /> with were you want the file to go on your server's disk (i.e. /var/www/html/ (it must end with a /)).
- Do something cool
Now make a webpage that calls cam.jpg and boom, you now have a old school webcam. You'll want to set up a cronjob to run the script every now and then.
Running shutdown.sh will upload offline.jpg, and shutdown the pi.
If the script does not detect the webcam, it will upload offline.jpg. Plugging the webcam back in, will resume normal operation. A USB hub with on/off switches can be handy for this.
The uploaded image is a .jpg, the microphone is not accessed. The webcam only fires up for a brief moment to take the image, it is not always on.
Don't point the webcam at anything you don't want to be seen.
