Webcam grab & upload using webcam command

[Gina]

I'm trying to upload my webcam images to my website. The built-in webcam command is supposed to do it (run from terminal) but I can't get it to work. It read the grab section of the info file then nothing.

gina@AMD64-Jaunty:~$ webcam ~/weather/webcam.conf
reading config file: /home/gina/weather/webcam.conf
video4linux webcam v1.5 - (c) 1998-2002 Gerd Knorr
grabber config:
size 320x240 [none]
input (null), norm (null), jpeg quality 75
rotate=0, top=0, left=0, bottom=240, right=320

I'm wondering if it isn't finding my webcam - in fact, I don't really know exactly what to put in the configuration file.

My message log shows

May 23 16:29:39 AMD64-Jaunty kernel: [29205.202410] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Sweex Webcam USB (0ac8:3343)
May 23 16:29:39 AMD64-Jaunty kernel: [29205.205396] input: Sweex Webcam USB as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-10/1-10:1.0/input/input15

Can anyone help please?

EDIT... I should add - the webcam works fine in xawtv It refers to it as Camera 1

[Gina]

With more testing I have found one problem. Although the webcam command output shows it as having read the config file, in fact it hasn't. When I tried changing the settings, they didn't change in the terminal display. I then tried using the default config filename and location without the option in the command line and now the result is different.

gina@AMD64-Jaunty:~$ webcam
reading config file: /home/gina/.webcamrc
v4l2: open /dev/video1: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video1: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video1: No such file or directory
no grabber device available
gina@AMD64-Jaunty:~$

Changing input device back to device = /dev/video0 and Input = Camera 1 gets a bit further.

gina@AMD64-Jaunty:~$ webcam
reading config file: /home/gina/.webcamrc
invalid norm: pal
gina@AMD64-Jaunty:~$

So it seems norm = pal is wrong and yet that is in the example given in man webcam and the webcam is the UK version which I assume uses the PAL standard.

[Gina]

Sorted... Commented out norm = pal and it's grabbing images and uploading them to my website

[Gina]

Not quite solved after all

Got the web page done and updating regularly and the webcam applet uploaded regularly BUT it's not grabbing a new webcam image for each upload although it's updating the title/date/time watermark. It's just not grabbing a new webcam image

[Gina]

Working alright now - using webcam to add a "weathercam" to my weather station website

[Robt6]

Trying to do the same- upload webcam pic to my webpage server.
How exactly did you get it to work? Not very linux savy. Have been searching for an app since I installed 8.10, Feb 09, No previous linux experience. DOS, whey back when? Wish it had a GUI!

[ixnull]

I'm trying to configure a webcam server using the same webcam-program as Gina, but instead of uploading the images to a server, I want to save them locally. The webcam works fine with cheese, but something is wrong with the webcam program. No image is produced to the /var/www folder. I pasted below what happens when I run the program as well as the conf file. Any ideas?

test@test:~$ webcam /etc/webcam.conf &
reading config file: /etc/webcam.conf
video4linux webcam v1.5 - (c) 1998-2002 gerd knorr
grabber config:
Size 352x288 [none]
input spca561, norm (null), jpeg quality 75
rotate=0, top=0, left=0, bottom=288, right=352
write config [ftp]:
Local transfer /var/www/uploading.jpeg => /var/www/webcam.jpeg
libv4l2: Error reading: Invalid argument
v4l2: Read: Invalid argument
capturing image failed

[grab]
device = /dev/video1
text = "webcam %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
#infofile = infofile
fg_red = 255
fg_green = 255
fg_blue = 255
width = 352
height = 288
delay = 5
wait = 0
input = spca561
#norm = pal
rotate = 0
top = 0
left = 0
bottom = -1
right = -1
quality = 75
trigger = 0
once = 0

[ftp]
host = localhost
user = webcam
pass = xxxxxx
dir = /var/www
file = webcam.jpeg
tmp = uploading.jpeg
passive = 1
debug = 0
auto = 0
local = 1
ssh = 0