This is the British Broadcasting Corporation broadcasting live from Alexandra Palace
If you replace British Broadcasting Corporation with Polaris Digital and Alexandra Palace with The Green Building, Manchester then we’re close.
After a night of hacking at some shell script, plus a little tinkering with some AppleScript, I managed to create a program that every 60 seconds five minutes takes a picture and posts it on the internet, effectively creating a live web cam.
I know these are so 1996, but what the hey. I wanted to learn some shell scripting and AppleScript’ing for no particular reason and chose a web cam as the project.
But on a plus side, you’ll all be able to keep an eye on me from now on. To access the camera you can select the link on the header called ‘live camera’, or look at the image above that is sourced from the same location. (You’ll need to refresh the page every minute or so for the latest image)
Depending on bandwidth usage, I may alter the frequency of the captures if the current frequency starts effecting normal business operations. This has now happened and the frequency is every 5 minutes.
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