Webcam Plugin Setup.

[tremors834]

I've been trying to work out setting up the Webcam Plug in, unfortunately its not going all to well.

I'm running MeteoBridge with Meteotemplate. My site is www.tremors834.com.

I have set up the webcam block but am stumped with the plugin.
Searching the forum leads me to believe I am missing a big step and that is setting up a CRON Job.
I'm not sure at all on how to set up a CRON Job. I've seen a recent post about using the Meteobridge/Services Tab/HTTP to set up a CRON. But truthfully, have no clue what to put in those fields.

Where would I find my update password? Obviously I need this to run:
www.tremors834.com/load/cron.php?passwo ... E_PASSWORD

Thank you all

[Dehatter]

your update password in in the main set file.

It is about the first thing you did.

main setup.jpg (5.8 KiB) Viewed 5145 times

See

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=1247&p=5843#p5843

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=125&p=5954#p5954

Tom

[Dehatter]

Step 1 - Create a folder on your server to store your image using your ftp software. Mine is ../cam. My folder structure is here:

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=125&p=5954#p5954

Step 2 - Make sure your camera can upload an image to this folder using the camera software (or IPTimelapse, iSpy, etc computer software) with the same name every time (This is usually found under something like FTP or Upload Settings...it is different for about every single camera maker out there). I personally use IPTimelapse see:
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=1185&p=5892#p5892


If yes continue.
if no, send me a PM.

Step 3 - Using your ftp software, move or copy updateWebcam.php to the ../template/load/crons folder. This file comes with the pulgin and is located in the plugin folder when you installed it.

Step 4 - Setup the config for the plugin using your admin control panel.

Step 5 - The image location is www.yourwebsite.com/yourimagefolder/yourimagename.jpg

Step 6 - goto https://cron-job.org and create an account

Step 7 - Create a cron job. Use your website and your update password. Example is here:
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=125&p=5954#p5954

Done!

[tremors834]

Thank you Dehatter. I'll give it a go.