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    Yard Cam


    Created on Wednesday, April 30, 2008        Bookmark and Share

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    As you may have noticed, there is an (almost) real-time picture of my backyard on my homepage and my weather page. There is a little bit of magic behind this but not too much.

    I have a TrendNet TV-IP400 camera in the hot tub room and it points out the back window:



    This unit does a few things. First, it can be fully controlled by opening it up in the browser. Check it out here. Second, it has an ftp function that will both create a picture file and then drop it on my server on whatever schedule I set. In my case, it is 30 seconds. My ftp server catches the file and then drops it into my html directory. At that point I can reference it anywhere on my site (it is always the same filename).



    The last part of this is allowing users to get to my camera using their browser. I use a service called No IP for my domain registration. This company does a few things. First, since the evil cable company can change my IP address at any time, this company will change the dns to the new IP within a second or two. Second, this service will create a redirect that will allow me to push web cam traffic through port 82. I merely have to point all traffic on this port to the web cam and set an administrator password. At some point I may set a password for general traffic but not too many people know of this site as of this writing :-).

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