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PostHeaderIcon Skyscape Cam: Information

The CWS Skyscape Cam

We have a DogCam HQ1 bullet camera connected to the Weather PC and by using ImageSalsa Weather Edition, we are able to produce the images and movies you see here.

Current View

The current view is generated every 5 minutes and overlayed with data from Weather Display. This image is then uploaded to the site.

Movies

ImageSalsa saves the Weather Display overlayed images every 10 seconds from 80 minutes before Sunrise to 80 minutes after Sunset into a timestamped jpeg.

We then use MovieSalsa and it's Scheduler to generate a movie from these images every few hours and then uploaded to the site. This movie can be viewed as "Today".

We then do a final movie as the end of the day which can be viewed as "Yesterday". This is normally generated at 11pm.

We then copy and zip all the day's image files with the aim to produce seasonal videos in the future.

Last Motion detected (Coming soon)

ImageSalsa is able to detect motion by comparing the current and previous frames and if there is a difference within the threshold, a motion is considered to have happened. The frame is then overlayed with the date and time of the motion and stored.

This image is then uploaded to the site.

Periodically, we copy the better ones to the gallery.

Expect to see: The Window Cleaner, Birds, Wasps, Flies and the most important one: Lightning!

As the Cam is interlaced, the motion detection is not very good!

 

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+2 # Nigel Mitton 2010-01-05 12:26
Re: Last Motion detected (Which means something very different to us in the Medical trade.

Will it record you doing the washing up?

It is 29 Deg C here!

[img:error] That's not going to work is it?
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0 # Chester Weather Station 2010-01-05 15:40
I expect there's quite a lot of motion detected where you are!

Picture added to gallery.
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0 # Oscar 2010-01-07 17:18
Quoting Nigel Mitton:
Re: Last Motion detected (Which means something very different to us in the Medical trade.


LOL Nice comment Nigel...well pointed out
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0 # Richard Tatton 2010-05-19 09:31
I am new to this site, only having discovered it this morning! Very impressive and well laid out. Am I correct to deduce that the Skyscape camera is looking towards the west?
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0 # Chester Weather Station 2010-05-19 16:33
Hi Richard and welcome.

Thanks for the kind comments.

The Skyscape Cam is pointing North West towards the Dee estuary.
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