Webcam : remote rotor

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15-07-2004, 08:36
ALAIN

Webcam : remote rotor

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.
04-08-2004, 22:05
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 :)
04-08-2004, 22:54
Antiloop

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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

internally you should have a reasonable smooth image
05-08-2004, 00:57
bramfm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ALAIN

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.
05-08-2004, 11:02
ALAIN

Webcam from internet

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antiloop

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.
05-08-2004, 11:24
ALAIN

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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 :)

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!
05-08-2004, 11:41
ALAIN

Quote:

Originally Posted by bramfm

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.
09-08-2004, 12:39
WlanMan

Quote:

Originally Posted by ALAIN

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.