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Ivista Home Security motion detection image capture size
The Ivista Home Security motion detect feature seems to work well, except
the video captures 16 small images in one .jpg. I would like a larger image capture, but Ivista says it's not possible to make the images larger. Does anyone have a work around? When the program detects motion, it will play a .wav of a dog barking, or send an e-mail, or open another program. maybe there is a way of opening another program to capture a larger images ? any ideas ? thanks Doug |
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"Nash" wrote in message m...
The Ivista Home Security motion detect feature seems to work well, except the video captures 16 small images in one .jpg. I would like a larger image capture, but Ivista says it's not possible to make the images larger. Does anyone have a work around? TrackerCam Software or CamPanel (multi-camera) from www.trackercam.com can capture 20 frames per second when they detect motion. The images are stored as jpg's which can be played back in sequence at up to 100 frames per second depending on your hardware. TrackerCam Development www.trackercam.com When the program detects motion, it will play a .wav of a dog barking, or send an e-mail, or open another program. maybe there is a way of opening another program to capture a larger images ? any ideas ? thanks Doug |
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Eagletron Inc. wrote:
"Nash" wrote in message m... The Ivista Home Security motion detect feature seems to work well, except the video captures 16 small images in one .jpg. I would like a larger image capture, but Ivista says it's not possible to make the images larger. Does anyone have a work around? TrackerCam Software or CamPanel (multi-camera) from www.trackercam.com can capture 20 frames per second when they detect motion. The images are stored as jpg's which can be played back in sequence at up to 100 frames per second depending on your hardware. TrackerCam Development www.trackercam.com When the program detects motion, it will play a .wav of a dog barking, or send an e-mail, or open another program. maybe there is a way of opening another program to capture a larger images ? any ideas ? thanks Doug And the trackercam software is free....but wait, if you want to capture more than 100 images in one day...which we all do....you have to buy the trackercam hardware. I learned this sad fact after investing several hours in trying to figure out how to use it. Find another application. And let us know what it is...I want one too. mike |
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And the trackercam software is free....but wait, if you want to capture more than 100 images in one day...which we all do....you have to buy the trackercam hardware. I learned this sad fact after investing several hours in trying to figure out how to use it. Find another application. And let us know what it is...I want one too. mike Sorry for the inconvenience, Mike. Due to your feedback we have updated our download page so that it is now clear that only 100 images can be saved in one day if you don't already own a TrackerPod ($125 +) or a TrackerKey ($99). TrackerCam Development www.trackercam.com |
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I like that Ivista Home Security has the ability to let you highlight the
specific area of the cameras field of view that you want the motion detection to respond to. I can focus it to look for differences on the lawn and the road in the center of the field, and ignore the trees on the side of the view, swaying in the wind. I have been looking for a way to use Ivista Home Security motion detection, to capture a larger image instead of the 16 postage stamps it does. Ivista customer support said the motion detection image capture size was not adjustable. Si 's comments got me looking for a program to capture a .jpg I thought of a printscreen button type thing, and went looking for something that could work with Ivista's ability to send e-mail, make .wav dogs bark, and run a program. I found an automatic adjustable printscreen button type program, which works on command, and captures the screen as a .jpg http://www.gadwin.com/ Gadwin PrintScreen 2.6 It is simple program, was very easy to set up. A very nice program and plus it is freeware. The Gadwin Printscreen programs help section has a page of "Command Line Arguments" it mentions one called "justnow" which - Causes Gadwin PrintScreen to do a capture using current settings and close when finished or canceled I used this in the Ivista - Motion Detection - Edit - Response - Change - Run Program : under Program Name: C:\Program Files\Gadwin Systems\PrintScreen\PrintScreen.exe and under Parameters: /justnow I have Gadwin Printscreen program set to capture the entire screen. I adjust the size of the Ivista Video Preview window as large as I like it. When Ivista detects motion, it starts barking, and e-mailing, and causes the Printscreen program to capture the entire screen, of which the big, big, video preview window is now a part of, as a .jpg and saves the file to a folder. It's not an ideal arrangement. I would like to be able to capture a large image without having to look at it on the desktop. But for now it works. For now I'm using a second PC, until I can find another way. thanks for your help ! Doug "Si Ballenger" wrote in message ... On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:43:49 GMT, "Nash" wrote: The Ivista Home Security motion detect feature seems to work well, except the video captures 16 small images in one .jpg. I would like a larger image capture, but Ivista says it's not possible to make the images larger. Does anyone have a work around? When the program detects motion, it will play a .wav of a dog barking, or send an e-mail, or open another program. maybe there is a way of opening another program to capture a larger images ? any ideas ? Another capture program probably won't be able to access your capture device since ivista is using it. I think there is a program that can call up a web page and caputre it as a jpg or bmp file. Ivista will supply single frames upon a web request. When motion is detected, a batch type file could be executed that calls the program to get and save the single frame provided in the web page called. Putting the called web page in a popout that is the size of the frame would minimize the size of the page captured. |
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I tried Trackercam for several hours.
Some programs seem intuitively easy to follow. This was not one of them. It seems like there are only a few things to adjust related to motion detection and capture, and yet i think i found most of them in this program frustrating. I especially found the player used to view the captured images very confusing to learn. This is the first program I have ever used, that i enjoyed uninstalling. But, maybe it works nice with their tracking camera Doug "mike" wrote in message ... Eagletron Inc. wrote: "Nash" wrote in message m... The Ivista Home Security motion detect feature seems to work well, except the video captures 16 small images in one .jpg. I would like a larger image capture, but Ivista says it's not possible to make the images larger. Does anyone have a work around? TrackerCam Software or CamPanel (multi-camera) from www.trackercam.com can capture 20 frames per second when they detect motion. The images are stored as jpg's which can be played back in sequence at up to 100 frames per second depending on your hardware. TrackerCam Development www.trackercam.com When the program detects motion, it will play a .wav of a dog barking, or send an e-mail, or open another program. maybe there is a way of opening another program to capture a larger images ? any ideas ? thanks Doug And the trackercam software is free....but wait, if you want to capture more than 100 images in one day...which we all do....you have to buy the trackercam hardware. I learned this sad fact after investing several hours in trying to figure out how to use it. Find another application. And let us know what it is...I want one too. mike |
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 00:44:28 GMT, "Nash"
wrote: I like that Ivista Home Security has the ability to let you highlight the specific area of the cameras field of view that you want the motion detection to respond to. I can focus it to look for differences on the lawn and the road in the center of the field, and ignore the trees on the side of the view, swaying in the wind. I have been looking for a way to use Ivista Home Security motion detection, to capture a larger image instead of the 16 postage stamps it does. Ivista customer support said the motion detection image capture size was not adjustable. Si 's comments got me looking for a program to capture a .jpg I thought of a printscreen button type thing, and went looking for something that could work with Ivista's ability to send e-mail, make .wav dogs bark, and run a program. I found an automatic adjustable printscreen button type program, which works on command, and captures the screen as a .jpg http://www.gadwin.com/ Gadwin PrintScreen 2.6 It is simple program, was very easy to set up. A very nice program and plus it is freeware. The Gadwin Printscreen programs help section has a page of "Command Line Arguments" it mentions one called "justnow" which - Causes Gadwin PrintScreen to do a capture using current settings and close when finished or canceled I used this in the Ivista - Motion Detection - Edit - Response - Change - Run Program : under Program Name: C:\Program Files\Gadwin Systems\PrintScreen\PrintScreen.exe and under Parameters: /justnow I have Gadwin Printscreen program set to capture the entire screen. I adjust the size of the Ivista Video Preview window as large as I like it. When Ivista detects motion, it starts barking, and e-mailing, and causes the Printscreen program to capture the entire screen, of which the big, big, video preview window is now a part of, as a .jpg and saves the file to a folder. It's not an ideal arrangement. I would like to be able to capture a large image without having to look at it on the desktop. But for now it works. For now I'm using a second PC, until I can find another way. thanks for your help ! Doug I'll have to check the capture program to see how its works. Ivista can capture single frames, so you may want to try this simple setup. If the capture program can be set to capture the active window (like alt-printscreen), then you can better optomize the frame captures. Copy the below capture.bat batch file and paste in notepad, and save as capture.bat (watch for line wrap, the start http://127... should be on one line). When run, capture.bat will sound a chime, open the default brouser and load a captured ivista frame, delay for ~1 sec. (the ping line, increase the number after the -n to increase the delay one sec. per increase), actuate your command line capture, then repeat. Have the motion detection run the capture.bat file (just double click it to test). You can increase the frame size as desired in the ivista line. The brouser opened size can be minimized in size to just fit the frame. Brouser tool bars can be eliminated to save size. Just capturing the active brouser instead of the whole desk top is ideal. =======capture.bat below======== @echo off sndrec32.exe /play /close %windir%\media\ringin.wav start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here start http://127.0.0.1/cgi/nph-jpeg.exe?-a...ice+0+-video+0 ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 nul ' capture command line here cls |
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"Nash" wrote in message
... The Ivista Home Security motion detect feature seems to work well, except the video captures 16 small images in one .jpg. I would like a larger image capture, but Ivista says it's not possible to make the images larger. Does anyone have a work around? When the program detects motion, it will play a .wav of a dog barking, or send an e-mail, or open another program. maybe there is a way of opening another program to capture a larger images ? any ideas ? thanks Doug Hi, You could try Crime Catcher available at www.new-software.co.uk This should capture images of a 'reasonable' size and allow you to play them back in sequence/save them as an avi etc. Cheers, Edd |
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Thanks Si,
Appreciate your suggestions Doug |
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