Capture image from usb webcam and save to NAS drive
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I have two questions / scenarios I need help with:
- Mount a Network Attached Storage device (it is a Seagate Wireless Plus
- Capture and save an image from an attached USB webcam
I've looked af fswebcam and streamer but neither are installed and I've not been successful in trying to install them. I'm not sure either will actually take a photo via the webcam either...
Once these issues have been solved I plan to run this on a loop every 5 minutes to capture a new image. We travel full time in our motorhome and would like to capture an image every 5 minutes to document our travels. Eventually, geo tagging the image would be awesome as would adding a button to the contacts to take a photo now.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Patrick
www.rvsikeseeing.com
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Hi Patrick!
I'd love to help get your plan into motion. What exactly are the problems you are encountering when installing fswebcam and streamer? Could you provide any error messages you've been receiving?
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thanks so much for any help!!
I got fswebcam setup and working, now just need to get the nas drive working....
I installed openssh-sftp-server but when I try to run sshfs to mount the drive it errors out that the command is not found.
root@Omega-017D:~# opkg update
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/base/Packages.gz.
opUpdated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_base.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/base/Packages.sig.
kSignature check passed.
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega/packages/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_onion.
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega/packages/Packages.sig.
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/Packages.gz.
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/chaos_calmer_packages.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/Packages.sig.
Signature check passed.
root@Omega-017D:~# opkg install openssh-sftp-server
Installing openssh-sftp-server (7.1p2-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05.1/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/openssh-sftp-server_7.1p2-1_ar71xx.ipk.
Configuring openssh-sftp-server.