Live Daytona Freeride HD surf cam **OFFLINE for 1/14

[shawn_NJ]

We are trying to get a surf cam setup of the freeride jetski zone. Testing the auto FTP with hotel internet. Let me know how it works. Its uploading 6x a min, we many have to tune that in later based on performance.

Its on the homepage of my website:

http://www.surf-mb.com

 

[special fx]

Killer!!

 

[WILKEY]

Cool!!!

 

[hfthe3rd]

No way!!! Killer.

 

[Cannibal]

Wow, way cool!

 

[element3488]

Looks like ill see the freeride after all. from MN that is

 

[JetManiac]

awesome!

 

[Freakrider]

"Great Scott !"

 

[CEMotorsports]

Can you leave that there when you leave lol I love seeing it rather than trust the surf report

 

[Proformance1]

Wow the only thing cooler than this would be if I was actually there right now.

 

[DAG]

hell yeah!!

 

[deftons56]

Badass!

 

[shawn_NJ]

Thanks guys. It was a success and I will try to keep the cam up everyday thru the freeride.

 

[rasper99]

SuperJett did something similar in 2008. I set up something to grab the stills and made timelapse videos:
http://www.barry-blanchard.com/movies/jetski/freeride/2008_01_new.html
Nice to see the resolution has gone up over the years.

 

[yamaslut]

very cool....

 

[vitalikol]

Just one word from everybody who will not come this year


THANKS

 

[rasper99]

It's running and grabbing pix 6 times a minute. Yeah, I know the cam isn't not running but I'm ready.

For those curious about how it's done using the power of Linux:

#!/bin/bash
while true
do
wget http://www.surf-mb.com/camtest/capture1.jpg
mv capture1.jpg `date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.jpg
sleep 12
done

This create files with the name as the date and time in the format 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit date, hour (00-23), 2 digit minute, 2 digit seconds. So right now it just grabbed 20120107154950.jpg. That took about 10 minutes to put together. Putting the time lapse vids together does take a little time.

 

[shawn_NJ]

Cam is back online. I currently have it down to 2 captures a minute because hotel wifi is not the greatest.

SUNDAY AM: WARM and there are occasional nice small tubes coming through.

 

[shawn_NJ]

It's running and grabbing pix 6 times a minute. Yeah, I know the cam isn't not running but I'm ready.

For those curious about how it's done using the power of Linux:

#!/bin/bash
while true
do
wget http://www.surf-mb.com/camtest/capture1.jpg
mv capture1.jpg `date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.jpg
sleep 12
done

This create files with the name as the date and time in the format 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit date, hour (00-23), 2 digit minute, 2 digit seconds. So right now it just grabbed 20120107154950.jpg. That took about 10 minutes to put together. Putting the time lapse vids together does take a little time.

Very cool, one thing though is that I do not even have a tripod. So everyday I the cam angle will change everytime I put it outside or someone kicks it over, ect. Over a long capture video it might look kinda jumbled.

 

[rasper99]

I have changed it to grab a pic every 30 secs. Here is a little test I did of 2.5 hours compressed down to 3 minutes. Looks pretty good when you full screen it and turn it up to 720 or 1080:

There is a Best Buy close by. Spend a few bucks and get a mini-tripod! :smile: This is important history to save at such fine quality.