The weather station has been mostly on auto-pilot for several months now.\u00a0 I do still check the logs and keep an eye on things, but it hasn’t required any real intervention on my part.\u00a0 I’ll consider that a good thing as my attention has been focused elsewhere for the last few months.\u00a0 The only real issue I was having with the weather station was the webcam software.\u00a0 I had begun experiencing periodic lockups of the software where the image was no longer being captured or uploaded to my web site.\u00a0 I had been using a trial version of Conquercam, which is not free software, so it was time to either pay up or find an alternative.<\/p>\n
In the past I had looked at several free webcam packages.\u00a0 My favorite had been Yawcam.\u00a0 I don’t remember all the details, but I remember I abandoned that software because I was having to unplug and plug in the webcam fairly often to reset the driver.\u00a0 My server had a fairly fresh install of Windows Server 2012 Essentials, so when Conquercam began having issues I decided to give Yawcam another chance.\u00a0 I’m happy to say that Yawcam has performed quite well for me since I switched back to it.\u00a0 It also has the advantage of being able to provide better streaming support.\u00a0 For Conquercam I was using a page that refreshed the image every second rather than doing actual streaming.\u00a0 Yawcam provides a Web page with fairly decent streaming support. So for now I’m a Yawcam user again.\u00a0 It’s been running for several weeks now without a hitch.\u00a0 I’ll continue to keep an eye on it and report back here if I have any problems with the software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The weather station has been mostly on auto-pilot for several months now.\u00a0 I do still check the logs and keep an eye on things, but it hasn’t required any real intervention on my part.\u00a0 I’ll consider that a good thing … Continue reading