I think I might have one already.
I was considering that with Dropbox, just need to look into bandwidth restrictions on public files.
Yeah, I only have 12GB on DP, but 50 on Box, and 25 on skydrive. I'd look in to one of those I think. If you can't find anything to your liking we could test it on my server.
Do you have SSH access to the server?
If you do, you might want to look into using rsync to only upload the image when it has changed.
If you were to use a image format that is predictably consistent in how it saves (I'm thinking one that doesn't use compression / isn't lossless, i.e. saving the same image to 2 different files creates 2 identical files - bitmap for instance) you could then get rsync to only transfer the parts of the image that have changed.
Only upload the largest resolution image, with compression on of course, and on the server use some shell scripting on a cron to copy and convert the bitmap to a web-friendly format and also create the smaller resolution images.
If you don't have SSH, forget I said anything.
I don't (giggle)
The image does change every 20 seconds though.
The script on my webcam machine is basically...
Take photo
Resize photo
Upload photo
This runs every 20 seconds.
What kind of router do you have? With the new Asus routers (maybe new isn't the right word), with some Asus routers, like mine, you can connect an external drive and host it. Asus also offers some cloud storage. Without looking I can't remember what you said the reason was for wanting to upload them and not put them on your server, but I can't imagine it's bandwidth because you're still uploading them. So even if you're not using an Asus router, and if your router has usb ports you can install Tomato USB and host from there. Just an idea...
It is bandwidth at my end. My upload pipe isn't fat enough for proper hosting.
Uploading a single (or a few) images every 20 seconds is fine. But having a number of people requesting said images every 20 seconds isn't.
Anyway, I'm using that free service I linked to up there for the time being, hopefully it's not too shit.
I must have missed that post, I'll check it out. What is your upload speed?
Ah yeah, that's not going to cut it is it?
So the AntThomas.co.uk is where you're putting them now? Seems to work just fine!
And hey, it's raining and dark, it certainly shouldn't be dark this time of day!
No. antthomas.co.uk is my proper hosting. The page is hosted there but the images are on the spare hosting.
The spare hosting with 100GB bandwidth is
http://antthomas.comuf.com
Pitch black outside and it's just started chucking it down. Nice walk home from work for me :((
Ah I see. I'm pretty sure that DP doesn't have any bandwidth limit, so you could probably do the same thing with your public folder.
This time of year is depressing enough without pitch black AND rain. I'd probably eat a gun barrel.
*And I just realized it is about time for darkness over there, I was forgetting it was 5 hours ahead of me AND almost December. Dark at 5PM...sucks...
Good stuff.
I might do something similar with my Pi, seeing as it's not really all that cut-out for use as a HTPC just yet, especially playing a lot of HD content.
It really isn't, is it?
Well, actually, I've only tried a few .mkvs on mine, and it hasn't really had too many problems. It's just that RaspBMC just doesn't work too smoothly. That's the problem with using beta software, I suppose.
It plays the Big Buck Bunny 1080p MKV fine, just like it did when they first showed off XBMC on RaspberryPi all them moons again, but a large number of TV releases I've tried just don't cut it. The biggest problem I seem to have with mine is with audio sync. I wouldn't mine if it was predictably always out by the same amount, I could adjust XBMC to delay the audio, but it's not.
I don't pretend to understand what the problem is, I guess the TV release community isn't as stringent with their encoding as the Buck Bunny guys were.
XBMC 12.0 Frodo has just entered beta 1 and has official Raspberry Pi support. I might try that, see if it fairs any better than RaspBMC.
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Exactly. I've got two separate systems for HTPCs running XBMC and the RPi really doesn't cut it compared to them and I mainly watch live TV and I don't think the RPi is any good at deinterlacing.
Webcam was my best idea. Now just need some helium and some balloons!
I don't reget buying my Pi, but it is currently sat behind the TV until I work out something fun for it.
Me either, though I kinda wish I had waited and got the 512MB version.
I've got the very first revision that has a few issues and there's been a few board changes since to improve stability and possible power issues.
Yeah, mine isn't great either, though I think it may be more to do with the SD card. For example, last time I booted it, it was running Raspbmc fine. I turned it on (thanks to this thread) and it's done an auto update and it's now failed saying it can't mount the FS :(