{"id":23,"date":"2012-07-02T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-07-18T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T19:40:03","slug":"i-took-some-pictures-while-i-was-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/i-took-some-pictures-while-i-was-making.html","title":{"rendered":"Outlet Control Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I took some pictures while I was making a permanent enclosure for my web-controlled power outlets. These are going in the kitchen and are attached to the old Gateway that plays my fridge music and serves up my tunes. I made it work in a way that each plug on the outlet can be independently controlled.<\/p>\n

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I took 12V DC control wiring from the IDE drives’ power wires and ran it out of the front of the computer.<\/p>\n

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New update relating to my lamp: I was successfully able to install a webcam and set it up to monitor the lamp. This is more of a temporary solution until I can learn Python.<\/p>\n

Any way! I installed a program called “streamer” which can do many things, including take a JPEG picture from a webcam. Then I wrote a script to run this program every second.<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/sh<\/code>
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 streamer -s 640x480 -f jpeg -o \/var\/www\/images\/snapshot.jpeg <\/code>
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The picture gets rewritten every time it runs. That way the web server doesn’t need to think about which picture to show. Now I need to execute this program as root at boot time. I added a line to the \/etc\/init.d\/rc.local file:<\/p>\n

\/home\/bryan\/streamer &<\/code><\/p>\n

Hooray! This method obviously takes quite a bit more system resources. If this was something that people would look at all the time, maybe it would be a good method, but I’ll maybe use this once a week, so hopefully when I learn Python I’ll figure out a way to execute the “streamer” program once when the page is requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took some pictures while I was making a permanent enclosure for my web-controlled power outlets. These are going in the kitchen and are attached to the old Gateway that plays my fridge music and serves up my tunes. I made it work in a way that each plug on the outlet can be independently … <\/p>\n

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