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Comment by shirl on October 8, 2010 at 11:51pm

It's a tricky one, Jason. Software restrictions can be a pain. See you were discussing this in January. What are your thoughts now? I love watching the live feeds. Have a link to the hummingbirds in Ecuador on my blog ;-D

Comment by Wildlife Whisperer - Jason on January 25, 2010 at 11:00am

Much of it is auto generated by the software but I'll hunt through the user forums to see if there is a workaround.

Comment by Jane Adams on January 25, 2010 at 10:52am

I know the feeling! :)

or if not that, have the link that you get in the email to take you to the end of the comments? instead of the beginning?

Comment by Wildlife Whisperer - Jason on January 25, 2010 at 10:36am

I'm a little restricted by the software Jane I'm afraid but I'll investigate!

Comment by Jane Adams on January 25, 2010 at 10:26am

I'd be interested in having a cam on here..and seeing others. (would it be better to have new comments be on page 1? and be added to the beginning rather than getting added to the end? took me a while to realise there was a page 2)

Comment by Wildlife Whisperer - Jason on January 25, 2010 at 10:13am

Hi Paul.

That's another thing on my list to do! Hopefully the live cam section will develop over time and we can get a few other member cams on here too.

Please bear with me over the next few days as I add more content to this site and the main AWFN website

Comment by Paul Gregory on January 25, 2010 at 10:08am

I could have sworn I was looking at a patch of ground last night, looks like someones been busy this morning. :)

How about filling us in how you set everything up and what kit you used?

Comment by Jane Adams on January 24, 2010 at 9:14pm

Same thing happened to me last night when the badgers came through the garden. Infra red B&W picked them up, and then they triggered the security light and it turned to colour... http://www.talkwildlife.com/video/badger-in-the-garden-or-maybe

Comment by Kate MacRae on January 24, 2010 at 8:38pm

See, I am learning fast! Trouble is, the one I have does not have night vision..... so I can't try it out on the ground! Going to have to buy another one!

Comment by Debbie Alexander on January 24, 2010 at 8:36pm

Spot on Kate.

Comment by Kate MacRae on January 24, 2010 at 8:17pm

I think there is an outside light on the house, triggered by movement. When there is enough light, the camera is in colour, so when this comes on, the camera becomes colour as the light levels have increased. In low light, it switches to IR, so is black and white...... I think!

Comment by Gill on January 24, 2010 at 7:42pm

AWFN - does an outside light come on if there is activity?? - image suddenly went from black & white to colour

Comment by Gill on January 24, 2010 at 7:40pm

HURRAH !!!!! :-) I'm up and running - webcam working!!

Thanks Alex - downloaded codec from Finetra.

Fabulous!

Comment by Wildlife Whisperer - Jason on January 24, 2010 at 4:12pm

If anyone is interested in live streaming from Finetra give me a call 01473 327775 (http://www.gardenature.co.uk) as we offer some excellent deals :-)

Comment by Jane Adams on January 24, 2010 at 4:08pm

I posted the above before seeing your comment above about links. In that case you will need to pay... and Finetra weren't bad when we used them last year (camera went down a few times but not too often). I don't have the costs to hand I'm afraid see www.finetra.co.uk/

Comment by Jane Adams on January 24, 2010 at 4:05pm

Camstreams just ask for a link under the embedded player back to their site. It does have limitations though. As only a limited number of people can watch at any one time. I had it streaming live one evening (foxes) and no more than about 10 people could see the live streaming - however you might not need more than 10 viewers? (and if you do, I think you can reduce the quality of the picture to allow more people or contact camstreams if it's a special project). Don't think I'd personally recommend multiple streaming for your first venture... try one and see how you go.

Comment by Kate MacRae on January 24, 2010 at 4:03pm

My issue is with being able to 'isolate' our cam feed from other people's. I don't want kids to go to a site to watch our birdbox and then be able to click and watch someone else's 'less appropriate' webcam! That is why it is difficult to use anything from You-tube as there are links back to you-tube if you embed and kids can go off and look at other stuff. I just want our cams on a page on the school website and no way they can go anywhere else!

Comment by Debbie Alexander on January 24, 2010 at 4:00pm

Oops...I'm signed in as my wife at the moment!

Comment by Debbie Alexander on January 24, 2010 at 3:59pm

There are one or two options out there. Camstreams.com, Ustream.tv is another. I think there are one or two things they insist on though like links and logo overlays etc. but I've experimented with both and they are ok.
Finetra offered us the best, well managed service, so I suppose there's an element of you get what you pay for.

The biggest issues with multiple streams will be your broadband upload speed I think. The quicker this is the higher the quailty of the stream. I live about as far away from the telephone exchange as you can be and still receive broadband. This live cam is running on an upload speed of 192kbs.

Comment by Kate MacRae on January 24, 2010 at 3:54pm

ooohhhhh, now you're talking! I'll have a look!

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