Comments on: The Live Cam is Now Live!

By: alek

alek — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:17:48 +0000

I stumbled across this blog and awesome job Mike – good luck with the whole project.

BTW, I helped a friend set up a webcam for his home construction project – some misc. photos and videos can be found at http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/pictures-andrew-house/

Like you, I archived images … and my approach was to use the Linux “convert” program to generate video from the command line … but that’s a pretty old program … I too would be curious what you are using for the stitching.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:17:43 +0000

Would you mind posting how you stiched the images together. I have had a camera on our project taking an image very 5 minutes but have not figured out how to turn them easily into a movie. Also if you know of a way to easily filter out the night time images that would be useful info too!

Great blog btw.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:02:16 +0000

Ulises: Oops, looks like I had a path problem in Firefox. Should be fixed now.

By: Ulises

Ulises — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:32 +0000

the timelapse movie is not loading for me ..

hmm

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:47:14 +0000

Mike, the cam is working well. Look forward to hearing about what was involved in setting it up.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:57:35 +0000

Kevin: Yep, it’s across the street at the neighbors’ house. They were nice enough to let me mount it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:38:49 +0000

Where is the camera located? Did you convince a neighbor to let you set up a computer in their living room?

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:02:46 +0000

Kyle: Yep, I’m saving one image every 5 minutes to an archive. Need to figure out how to do some command-line stitching of those. It would be good show a new day-long timelapse every day.

Ulises: Yep, I just found out the decon crew works 4 10-hour days so they aren’t there on Fridays I guess. Makes for a rather boring debut day on the live cam. Monday and Tuesday should be action packed though.

By: Ulises

Ulises — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:55:53 +0000

hmmm, it seems the guys tearing the house down are taking quite a long break

i haven’t seen much movement, except for a couple of guys in bicicles that seemed to stop to take a look around.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:24:46 +0000

Any plans to save something like an image every hour or day and put a “stop-motion” video together when the whole project is over?

Something similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P25AZQO_d9U

Anyways…loving the blog! Thanks!