It's working, a little buggy, but nothing to stop me from registering it. (thanks to a little translating help from Bable Fish)!
First, a couple of bugs, according to the developer, whom I emailed and received a response, there is supposed to be a status bar displayed while uploading. On the iPaq, you don't see that. My guess is because the ipaq's 'viewfinder' takes up the entire screen. Sometimes, when you first start the app, the first pic won't upload, but once a second is taken, it starts working. If the GPRS connection is dropped, you will have to stop and exit the app, re-establish the connection, then re-open the app.
Ok, now for the 'How-To'
First off, download it. It has a 15 day trial, and it's only about 11 euro's (about $15.00). I used Alta Vista's Bable Fish for translating the support, and the purchase pages. You will have to open the purchase site using bable fish in a separate window, you can't make the purchase through bable fish.
This is the official site where the support page is located
http://www.zone1.de
This is the site to purchase it from
http://www.pocketland.de/24022
You can dowload it from either site.
Here is the translation of the description of the config page, as well as a screen cap of my config (modified for security of course)
User considerations to the program Webcam for pocket PC
The necessary attitudes are to be registered into the file webcam.config. The exe File must be in the same file as.
Explanation of the entries:
< configuration >
< settings
cameraApp="Camera.exe" Name of the standard camera program. This is started with (genuine) a restart by PpcWebcam.exe with.
cameraWindow="Camera" Name of the camera Windows. For drawing the progress announcement during the data communication one needs. (THIS SETTING DOESN'T MATTER)
watchedFolder="\My Documents\My Pictures" File, into which the standard camera program puts the pictures down and will transfer from that it out.
watchedFiles="IMAGE_*.jpg" Name mask of the image files which can be transferred. The star stands for the sequential number. The type jpg (or bmp) must correspond to the photograph format stopped in the standard camera program. It will transfer no live-/preview-bild.
more server="MyFtpServer" Name or address of the ftp server. Indication of a haven number is not possible, internally the standard haven for ftp server (port 21) is always used. Examples: "zone1.de", "192.168.2.10"
user="MyUserName" Username for the ftp entrance
password="MyPassword" Password for the ftp entrance
destinationPath="/webcam" Goal listing on the ftp server, into which the pictures are put down. Must be present.
newRemoteFile="webcamimage.jpg"
/ >
</configuration > New name of the image file on the ftp server/on the Website
Only the values between the quotation marks may be changed. Further no inadmissible indications may e.g. "within the values < > verwendet werden.
The program was successfully tested up to now on the following devices:
* Pocket LOOX 720 (InterNet entrance over WLAN, standard camera program: Camera for pocket PC version 2.60 (provides 17114) of HTC Corp.)
Once you install the app, and create the config file, you will need to establish a connection with either WiFi or GPRS. Then you run the app, and snap away. I set my camera settings to 640 X 480, Compression=Better (this is because at "BEST" the image file was large and over the slow GPRS connection it would take too long to upload and wasn't successful a lot of the time). All the other settings are default, image size is about 35K and takes about 40 seconds to upload. Put about 5 minutes between shots to be sure the previous image is uploaded (because of the missing progress bar, you can't tell). And there is no error message if the upload fails.
How the app works, is that it will 'watch' your image folder and when it detects a new file, it grabs it and uploads it. Then waits for the next one. It doesn't delete any images, so if you have limited space, you might have to go in and delete the pictures from time to time.
the biggest mistake I was making initially, was the server setting. I kept trying to include the Protocal syntax of "FTP://" This is not necessary, as you can see in the image. Just put the name of the server. My current 'biggest issue' is not related to the app, but is my GPRS connection. It will disconnect once in a while, and because I'm in the Full Screen cam app, you can't tell when it disconnects unless you periodically exit the camera app. (the webcam server will remain running, so if your GPRS connection is lost, be sure to stop and exit the app then connect to GPRS then re-open the app.
Thanks again Steve, and everyone else... I hope my labors can save others some time!
Scott
, that can do all of this, PLEASE let me know!
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