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Live streaming (beta)

Upcoming feature: Live streaming – create a 24/7 live stream only using your IP camera. We connect to your camera and stream the live video to YouTube.

Clip videos & YouTube export

today we improved the clips feature to make it more useful:

Dynamic text overlays

Until now, displaying temperature data in your webcam images (or other changing information) required the setup of another image processing step in your workflow.

With the new dynamic text overlays you can change texts for every image by calling our API (push mode) or by setting up a website with text data (pull mode).

How to use the Raspberry Pi as a Network Camera

The Raspberry Pi has become quite popular in the recent years. It is an inexpensive, universal piece of hardware for do-it-yourself enthusiasts that can be used in a lot of projects.

FTP-Upload

Today we introduce the FTP upload feature. With FTP (file transfer protocol) you can push images directly to our servers. Almost all IP cameras support FTP upload of the current image.

Text Overlays

The first feature from webcamtool.org is available now: The text overlays.

Widget ranges

Some changes in the widget section:

Sunrise sunset timer

The sunrise/sunset timer is available now.

Timer

By setting a time range for image collection, you can leave out images that are not interesting.