Save camera image ever minute to a location

[wonderlander]

I'm running on a Windows Home Server and I'd like to upload an image from one of my IP cameras directly to an FTP site every 60 seconds.

Failing that if I could just set it up to save in a folder every 60 seconds that would be a good start, ideally always with the same name, over writing the file already there.

[bbqkees]

If you have a Hikvision camera it can do that from within the camera webinterface.

[wonderlander]

This camera doesn't have that function which was why I resorting to Domoticz

[maomanna]

make a bash script that takes a snapshot.
I believe that Thinkpad has a script on his bitbucket.

After making that bash script, make a cron that runs every minute.

something like this

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#!/bin/sh
today=`/bin/date '+%d-%m-%Y__%H-%M-%S'`;    #Used to generate filename
IP="ip_of_camera"                       # IP address Camera

#Ping IP-address of camera to see if it's online, otherwise we don't have to $
if ping -c 1 $IP > /dev/null ; then  #Grab snapshot

#Get Snapshot from camera
wget "http://ip_of_camera/pah_of_snapshot (foscam example: cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?cmd=snapPicture2&usr="user"&pwd="password"") -O location/for/taken/snapshot/camera1-$today.jpeg

#Send snapshot to FTP
scp /location/for/taken/snapshot/camera1-$today <username>@<hostname>:<destination path>