Online (Mostly) Streaming Fishtank!!

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gapsaph

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Finally got my fishtank up on the web! It's mostly streaming, but it's actually just a picture that updates every 5 minutes. I used a Playstation Eye camera, and Ubuntu 12.04 (Linux) coupled with a cron job and webcam. The picture is only taken between 8am and 6pm while the lights are on, so I don't have a completely dark picture hanging around on my page for the other 14 hours.

See it here.

And here's how I did it.

If you have any suggestions, let me know!
 
Careful, I had mine as an open stream and people would hold the stream open for hours killing my bandwidth. I had to take it off line. If there is a way you can cap the stream to like 30 sec and then they need to refresh that would help with the bandwidth issues.
 
Haha, that's why I did pictures instead, no actual stream, extremely low bandwidth.

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