Webcam : remote rotor

[ALAIN]

Sorry for my poor english, but I hope you will understand me !
I have a secondary home and I can monitor the main room with a webcam and a WL500g. It works fine, the only "poor" point is the rate of refresh : about one image per 6 seconds.
I want to add a rotor on the webcam in order to have many angles of view and for this to be able to send remote commands for the rotation of the rotor.

So I want to send "TTL" orders like start, stop, right, left.
Is it possible to use the outputs of the printer port for this ? and how ?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

[WlanMan]

Hi

The simplest way should be to go an buy a QuickCam® Orbit™ from Logitech. This is supportet with Philips Cam driver and features an inbuld Pan and Tilt Motor, and also has Digital Zoom.

Give it a Try

[Antiloop]

Sorry for my poor english, but I hope you will understand me !
I have a secondary home and I can monitor the main room with a webcam and a WL500g. It works fine, the only "poor" point is the rate of refresh : about one image per 6 seconds.
I want to add a rotor on the webcam in order to have many angles of view and for this to be able to send remote commands for the rotation of the rotor.

So I want to send "TTL" orders like start, stop, right, left.
Is it possible to use the outputs of the printer port for this ? and how ?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

I assume you are talking about refreshrate when connecting from the internet to your webcam

internally you should have a reasonable smooth image

[bramfm]

on the webcam in order to have many angles of view and for this to be able to send remote commands for the rotation of the rotor.

So I want to send "TTL" orders like start, stop, right, left.
Is it possible to use the outputs of the printer port for this ? and how ?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

You might consider the following :
http://www.digi.com/products/embedde...iconnectme.jsp
It has:
* I/O pins to control the rotor
* a build in web server to remotely control the I/O pins or
* you can write your own software to control the I/O pins
* UTP connection to connect to a router
* also a wireless version of this device is available:
http://www.digi.com/products/embedde...onnectwime.jsp

I was supprised about the price. I got three of those thingies.

[ALAIN]

I assume you are talking about refreshrate when connecting from the internet to your webcam

internally you should have a reasonable smooth image

Yes the refesh rate is from internet : DU meter indicates 130kbps (which is my maximal rate in upload). Locally i have near 2 mbps and more than one image per second.

[ALAIN]

Hi

The simplest way should be to go an buy a QuickCam® Orbit™ from Logitech. This is supportet with Philips Cam driver and features an inbuld Pan and Tilt Motor, and also has Digital Zoom.

Give it a Try

thank you for your answer. I read the specifications of Logitech (they are not detailed!) and I did not find the possibility of a remote control it by Internet!

[ALAIN]

You might consider the following :
http://www.digi.com/products/embedde...iconnectme.jsp
It has:
* I/O pins to control the rotor
* a build in web server to remotely control the I/O pins or
* you can write your own software to control the I/O pins
* UTP connection to connect to a router
* also a wireless version of this device is available:
http://www.digi.com/products/embedde...onnectwime.jsp

I was supprised about the price. I got three of those thingies.

Thank you for the answer. I also want to obtain a minimum of consumption by using only the WL500g. I am persuaded that with software, via internet it is possible use the parallel port, but my knowledge is too weak to write it.
In France, there is a similar product:
ET493 :

http://www.comelec.fr/categorie2.asp?cat=10&sscat=

But there is no detail on the applications. I sent a mall at this firm, but it did not answer me yet.

[WlanMan]

thank you for your answer. I read the specifications of Logitech (they are not detailed!) and I did not find the possibility of a remote control it by Internet!

Hi
No problem, the cam is supportet by the PWC Driver, and you can controll all extra funktions with setpwc od palantir.