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http://www.flickr.com/photos/thwarted/sets/72157623777255069/ https://github.com/thwarted/picsofourlives These scripts take pictures from your webcam when certain events are detected. Requirements: bash mplayer a working v4l2 compatible webcam (test with the bin/cam-view script) Optional: netpbm (to work around camera warmup time) There are scripts to detect different actions: bin/watch-for-screensaver if you use xscreensaver, this will take a picture at some random time within a minute after the screensaver is deactivated. This way it almost guarantees that you'll be at the computer when a picture is taken. bin/watch-for-gnome-screensaver integrates with dbus to receive events from gnome-screensaver, same as above. bin/watch-for-quake this script attempts to take a picture every five minutes if it sees a connection in netstat to quakelive.com's XMPP server. This XMPP connection seems to be active all the time when quakelive is running. I'm trying to see if I can capture any good facial expressions while I'm playing (all I've found so far is that I barely move and am always in the same position when playing). You can put more scripts in bin named watch-for-foo and they will be started by the control script. Send me additional scripts for other events; pull requests on github are welcome. Control with ctlwatchers start ctlwatchers stop ctlwatchers status ctlwatchers restart ctlwatchers start-if-not-running The watch-for-* scripts will spawn bin/take-picture to actually take the picture and they will be placed in the same dir that ctlwatchers exists, unless you set PICSOFOURLIVES_DESTDIR to a directory name. The image files will be named YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.png YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (extra text).png where the latter form is used if bin/take-picture is passed arguments to be the "extra text". I usually start it manually when I first login, but you can put something like the following in your crontab: */5 * * * * PICSOFOURLIVES_DESTDIR=/target/dir /home/user/picsofourlives/ctlwatchers start-if-not-running > /dev/null 2>&1 which will attempt to start it every 5 minutes. My process is: - start it when logging in - every once and a while, check the directory for new images (it's a shortcut in my Places menu) - open kflickr using the desktop icon in the directory - drag the ones I want to upload, select the flickr set to upload to - move the ones I've uploaded into pics-transfered - move other ones I didn't upload but that I want to keep into pics-extra I don't upload every picture taken automatically because sometimes they come out crappy (blurry because of movement) and because I deactivate my screensaver dozens of times a day and I really only want to make two or three at most available from each day.
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