Topic: Eagle cam

Is there any way to watch the Decorah eagle cam on chumby using a current widget?  If not, anyone out there willing to create one?

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Re: Eagle cam

This seems like a good idea for a webcam widget.  If I find a way of capturing the image, I probably will create a widget like this.

Re: Eagle cam

Yes. I was looking for a way to do the same thing with the Peregrine Falcon webcam here:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSF_large.htm

What is needed is a generic webcam widget and instructions on how to take some existing webcam stream on the web and put it into a Chumby widget. If this were explained clearly, step-by-step, I'd love to create some webcam widgets like this.

Re: Eagle cam

The technical problem with this is that there are multiple different ways of streaming webcams.  The Falcon cam linked by brianwc might be possible if the chumby can stream and decode quicktime; the one linked by Obnates is unfortunately wrapped in a flash video player with obscure parameters, so it'd take some sniffing with Firebug or the like to determine what format the stream itself is in (and thus determine whether the chumby will be able to decode the stream).

However, if you're willing to just have the eagle cam run by itself on chumby, that might be doable by creating a debugchumby script that calls the flash player, using the stream's source (http://static-cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/live/viewer:55.swf?vrsl=c:186&ulbr=50&loc=/&cid=3064708&channelid=3064708&sessionid=&share=false&group=channel3064708&imu=medrect&autoResize=false&localid=10158xxx.4f8f7461291f50.02206868&locale=en_US&autoplay=true&hasticket=false&vrsl=c:186&infobar=false&v3=true&enablejsapi=false -- that's a mouthful!).  You might have to do some escaping or the like on the URL to make it behave properly via the command line/script.

Re: Eagle cam

broken into four lines for "readability" (relatively speaking)...

http://static-cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/live/viewer:55.swf?vrsl=c:186&ulbr=50&loc=/&cid=3064708&
channelid=3064708&sessionid=&share=false&group=channel3064708&imu=medrect&
autoResize=false&localid=10158xxx.4f8f7461291f50.02206868&locale=en_US&autoplay=true&
hasticket=false&vrsl=c:186&infobar=false&v3=true&enablejsapi=false

Re: Eagle cam

How about the London Tower Bridge ustream channel

I would love to see that on the cumby

Re: Eagle cam

nilsa, I did a quick look at the ustream.tv API, and the streams they provide are in H.264 format which definitely won't work on the 3.5" Chumby devices.  I think it might be possible on the Chumby 8 devices with the latest firmware which supports FlashLite 4, but it depends on if that codec was included.  It can be very CPU intensive and usually needs some form of hardware support.