Waterton Web Cam

I get tonnes of hits on this blog from people looking for Waterton's webcam. - Update March 2011 - There final is one -

The other week I thought I would poke around for some free webcam publishing software. I tried evocam as its email function was supposed to enable auto-posting to your blog. It didn't work.

With a minute or two to spare tonight I think I found a solution. Use camspinner, save the file to a public dropbox account adjust the save rate to 1 file every 15 minutes.  Then, all I need to do is have a permanent link to this image on the sidebar of the blog.  Dropbox autopublishes, and camspinner allows you to specify where the file is saved.  It automatically overwrites filenames, so there is really nothing fancy, complicated or involved about publishing your own webcam.

It will be two weeks till I'm next in waterton.  I'll pull out an old G3 laptop, plug in a firewire isight camera and see if I can get a half decent view down the lake.  The view won't be great (no windows directly face south), but I'll start somewhere.

Look for this in about 2 weeks.