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• WebCam | WebCam on Server

The WebCam on Server provides the captured images to all connected clients.
Supported clients:

• Rocview
• Rocweb

The captured WebCam image should be as small as possible to save bandwidth. This is especially important in case of connected mobile clients.

• Refresh must be set to zero
• The WebCam option must be activated
• The new captured image will be searched in the Image Path

The action calls an external Capture Script for capturing a new snapshot image from the WebCam.
The Asynchrone option should be disabled for this action.

This action will be called every second, fixed, with the state set to "webcam".

The script must provide an image in JPEG format and should be as small as possible and must be smaller then 100kB.

The wacaw –CIF option will generate a small image of 352 X 288. (Common Intermediate Format)

#!/bin/bash
echo "Snapping a new image of the webcam..."  
/Users/rob/Projects/Rocrail/unxbin/rocnet/webcam/wacaw -d 2 --jpeg --CIF /Users/rob/Projects/Rocrail/unxbin/rocnet/webcam/_picture
mv /Users/rob/Projects/Rocrail/unxbin/rocnet/webcam/_picture.jpeg /Users/rob/Projects/Rocrail/unxbin/rocnet/images/picture.jpg

Line explanation:

1. The used interpreter
2. Terminal message
3. A call to the wacaw program to capture a new image
4. move the captured image into the image path

#!/bin/bash
picfile="/home/sven/rocrail/images/$(basename "$0").jpg"
tmpfile="/home/sven/rocrail/images/_$(basename "$0").jpg"
device="/dev/video${0: -1}"
 
echo "Snapping a new picture from $device to $picfile"  
 
avconv -f video4linux2 -i "$device" -frames 1 "$tmpfile" 
mv "$tmpfile" "$picfile"

• Example with all needed files and programs:
  https://github.com/tedburke/CommandCam/blob/master/CommandCam.exe