Acacia Projects - Belconnen Live Fishcam

Belconnen Live Fishcam

Use this page to control our live Fishcam. If the camera moves unexpectedly, someone else may also be controlling it.

The camera is pointed at a fish tank to show a bit of live content. You may need to hit one of the arrows to see an image or refresh on your browser after the move.

Local time is Monday, 06-Feb-2012 21:08:24 EST






Light	Darker	Norm	Lighter
Expos	Norm	Back	Night

Set Status Light on camera Off On

The camera supports control signals for pan and tilt via port 1600 and also streams live video back to a client from this port. What you see here is a single frame that is taken after you have pressed one of the buttons.

The Fish

The fish in this tank include:

2 1 x Blue Gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus)
3 1 x Bristlenose Pleco (Xenocara sp.)
2 x Glass Catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhis)
1 x Gold Angel (Pterophyllum scalare)
4 25 x Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
2 x Hatchet Fish (Gasteropelecus sternica)
10 4 x Neon Tetra (Paracheirodon innesi)
1 x male and 2 x female Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens)
5 4 x Tiger Barb (Barbus tetrazona)
5 4 x Golden Barb (see photo)
4 x Glowlight Chilli Barb (see photo)
2 x Black Ghost Fish (see photo)
2 x Unidentified Grey Fish

How It Works

The following dot points explain how this Fish cam works.

A person clicks on one of the control links or navigation buttons on this web page.
The links and buttons cause a Perl CGI script to run on the web server. Just hover your mouse pointer over over the links and buttons, and check the status bar on your browser to see the parameters being passed.
The CGI script executes commands in the Veo.pm Perl Module to talk to the camera on the local network. It uses port 1600 for control signals and video streaming.
The <img src="/cgi/veo.cgi?action=getimage"> command gets a single image back from the camera and streams it to your browser.

CGI Script Commands

You can pass any of the following commands to the CGI script to control the camera. Note that all start with /cgi/veo.cgi?

move=

left
right
up
down
fullleft
fullright
fullup
fullleftup
fullrightup
fullleftdown
fullrightdown

action=goto&val1=3&val2=3 (x ranges from 0 to 5 and y ranges from 0 to 6)
action=setbrightness&val1=5 (brightness ranges from 0 to 35)
action=setlight&val1=1 (Normal=0, Backlighting=1 and Night=2)
action=setstatuslight&val1=0 (Off=0, On=1 - manipulates the status light on the front of the camera)
action=getimage (returns an image)
action=reset (resets the camera)

The core code in the cgi script is.

	<img src="/cgi/veo.cgi?action=getimage">
	<a href="/cgi/veo.cgi?move=fullup">Move Up</a>

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