Technical Information

A number of people have asked me what webcam equipment and software I use on this site, so here is a brief description.

Note, this information is now outdated.

Hardware

This is the harbour webcam in place on the living room window sill

The Camera (on the right) is an IPKamera9000 which is a stand-alone unit (network camera) with a small built in web server. It connects directly to the home network via a wireless link provided by the unit on the left, a Linksys WGA54G. This is actually a wireless gaming adapter intended to be used with XBoxes etc, however it works perfectly well in this application as well.

In the spare room (the computer room :) ) is a Linux server (Centos 4.3) which runs this website, and the software which generates the camera images/videos.

It's a Dell Poweredge SC430 (the black one on the left). The machine on the right is a Windows file server and has nothing to do with this website/webcam. The Linux server is connected to the network via a Billion 7402GL wireless ADSL modem/router (the small box on top of the file server at the back). This provides a 13Mbit ADSL2+ connection to the Internet via my ISP, Internode

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