Nekochan Net

Does anyboy know how to get the default script to work for sgi-camera. I click on the snap script and it doesn't seem to work at all. Do i need to edit the script or am i missing a setting somewher to make it work. -thanks

You might want to contact lisp. I think she runs her website and webcam from a Sgi box. Look her up in the "Memberlist".

I just checked and her website is up but the webcam is down at this moment. It's been up most of the time recently.

James

You need to edit /var/www/cgi-bin/sgi-camera/snap and just comment the disable line and uncomment the enable line. Thats all you should have to do.

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I haven't been able to get this working either - even after commenting out the camera="DISABLED" and uncommenting camera="ENABLED". All I ever get is the "Please Stand By" image.

I never had a problem using the Galileo/IndyCam on my old Indigo, which uses the same script. A couple years ago I had the live IndyCam output on the front page of nekochan.net; you could view the current weather conditions outside my window.

Not sure if this is an O2 issue or if an IRIX upgrade killed it along the way.

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I'll have to retry it on my O2 when I get the chance..has it was working last time I tried. If anything it could be related to the use of fw_apache or something and the script being read from someplace else. Not sure, but it's something to consider.

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WolfLord -

"Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun" - Troy McClure

Could be, but I haven't changed where the website lives from machine to machine, nor have I used anything but fw_apache

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i tried setting it up on my o2 with the old netscape server + fw_apache...i think the problem is that SGI changed some of the perms on the video interface so that only the user who is logged in has access...when i ran apache as me it worked....but when running as "nobody" it didnt.

I just tried wolflord's tip on my freshly installed 02 6.5.27 and now the O2cam snaps a picture and beatly displays it in a webbrowser.

Finally, I can now log-in from work and watch the dust settle in my living room (naturally through a VPN-tunnel for security)...

The O2 web server webcam function quit working when I installed 6.5.22f to run nekochan software. It did work with 6.5.13 previous to the upgrade.

The camera is enabled in the 'snap' script, but it dosen't generate a picture, just the camera-off test pattern appears.

I patched the 'snap' script to route various command results to a file instead of /dev/null as it ran, and I see the following when it tries to run vidtomem: /usr/sbin/vidtomem: couldn't open video

vidtomem is globally executable (755), and runs when called manually by root when logged in, but su to any other user seems to give the same 'couldn't open video' error, so the comment by SenDep7 that only the logged-in user works seems valid.

Is there any fix or workaround?

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=^_^= Tigerwolf

Not that I ever found, no.

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That bites. I'd really like to get the webcam going again. :/

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=^_^= Tigerwolf

I re-wrote the webcam script myself after getting the irix one to work was too much bother.

I've hacked this script to make time lapse movies but you can edit it as you wish.



You could be a real botch artist and have a web page that includes an image /var/www/images/webcam.jpg

put this in crontab




easy as that. You could do something a little neater but that would work
If you want more help let me know.

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