Timmicam Readme

I have done this in a rather round about way.

I am taking the pictures on my notebook and serving them from my webserver, which is connected to the notebook by our HAN (Home Area Network).

Hardware

Casio QV10a
Data lead for above (supplied)
6v Power supply
Tripod
TI Xtensa Notebook
PC 486
Pace ISDN router

Attempt One

Software

I have had a few 'false starts', which I would be grateful for any help with:

qvplay.exe seems to think that the images are twice as wide as they are, so I am using the HTML width tags to get the image back to size, it works but what a bore:)
I am only visible when online, this is fine really, as I would have to be online to FTP, but I wanted to be able to FTP from a batch file, but there does not seem to be a mechanism by which you can put the FTP password into a batch file.

Attempt Two

The camera is plugged into the laptop and powered up. This batch file is run:

:top
qvplay -D com1 -t

qvplay -D com1 -F jpg -o tmp.jpg -S top -g 1

qvplay -D com1 -r                                               

qvplay -D com1 -d 1

qvplay -D com1 -r

del cam.jpg
ren tmp.jpg cam.jpg

goto top

This ensures that there is a file called cam.jpg on the hard disk most of the time.

The hard drive of the laptop is mapped to a drive under NetBUI (ie drive K:), this in turn is mapped within my webserver (website).

So the page that is served by Direct Connection, but the image is served by me.

Attempt Three

I downloaded an evaluation copy of QV Autocam, it turned out that I was one of the first to download, in day 10 of the site:)

Bob Prangnell turned out to very responsive to bug reports and is very approachable. You have me to thank for the 'overwrite last file' feature (useful if you do not have infinite disk space).

The software is very easy to use and seems to take better and better pictures, as the versions roll out.

Last Modified 12/03/98