[thelist] Novex 2000 - webcam software

[Richard Bennett]

Hi,
I don't know about Novex, but I got a cam program from here:
http://www.coffeecup.com/webcam/

I think it does everything you want, and it's very simple to setup.
They have a trial version for testing.

Richard.

PS Have others noticed that Hotmail seems to be running very slow, and
timing out a lot now they're hosting on ISS5?
Or am I just being to negative about MS :o)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Melody Kerchhoff" <mel at kingsley.co.za>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:02 AM
Subject: [thelist] Novex 2000 - webcam software


> Hello Listlings,
>
> I sent a query about this before and received some excellent advice
> regarding Webcam 32 software. Anyway, at the time I did not know what
> software my client had etc. and I now have some more information and have
> some more specific questions. I have approached Novex themselves as well,
> but thought I would try the trusty list in the meantime for some unbiased
> opinions.
>
> A client of mine has four cameras on his house and he would like pictures
> from those cameras to be made available on his web page. He is running the
> Novex 2000 software. http://www.novexcanada.com/overview.htm I am a web
> designer and have never worked with web cams before and am not familiar
with
> the Novex 2000 software.
>
> However, I have been to the house and had a look at the software and what
I
> have managed to find out is the following:
> 1. Novex 2000 does allow scheduled recording, but does not seem to allow a
> scheduled snapshot. The help file says that you can grab a frame when you
> are in video playback mode but not when you are in recording mode. The
> shortest recording I was able to make was 5 minutes. Is it possible to
> record for shorter periods? Ideally I would like to record a single frame
as
> a snapshot once an hour and save it as a jpg. Does the software only save
> video files e.g. avi?
> 2. I need to schedule the computer to dial-up once an hour to FTP this jpg

> to an ISP. Novex 2000 seems to enable the computer running the software to
> be set up as a web server, but this is not what the client wants. The
> computer will be not be online all the time. Can Novex 2000 be set up to
do
> scheduled FTP uploads?
>
> I hope this makes sense. To recap, what the client requires is for the
> software to grab a snapshot from each of the 4 cameras once an hour during
> the daylight hours. The PC must dial-up at scheduled hourly intervals soon
> after the snapshot has been grabbed to FTP it to the ISP. Preferably this
> will be in jpg format and preferably it will have a generic name like
> camera1.jpg so that it overwrites the jpg that was there before. I will
then
> display these pictures on the web page.
>
> Is this possible with Novex 2000? If not, do you know of any other
software
> that does this that you can recommend? This whole process has to be
> automated and I can't see that it is possible to do it with the Novex 2000
> that he has at the moment. Please tell me I am wrong : ) Am I missing the
> point entirely? Is there a much easier way to do this? Any advice would be
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Melody Kerchhoff
>
>
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