Different Computers wrote:Rather than try this and discover I misunderstand something, I thought I'd explain what I'm going to attempt and see if I have the right idea.
Install the plugin.
Create a variable called CurrentCam.
Get the URLs of my cameras on my LAN (though they could be from anywhere, I suppose.)
Create schedules that sets CurrentCam to the URL of each camera I want appearing on the Control Page I'll build. (Is there a better way to do this? Python scripting? I can't think of how to make one schedule rotate through changing variable values that aren't incrementing or decrementing.)
Create a Control Page that has a refreshing image URL of
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http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@localhost:8176/variable_url_redirect/redirect?name=CurrentCam
Enjoy my new rotating image.
And for other potential uses, questions: Could this be used for arbitrary valid URLs? If I insertedas the variable value, would the refreshing image URL display it?
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http://forums.indigodomo.com/static/www/images/wordmark.png
EDIT: I've got this working as above, but haven't tried to implement a schedule yet, as right now all I could figure would be to create a schedule for every cam that inserts its URL into the variable. Even so, this plugin is SUPER COOL.
The URL to my cameras seems tricky ! Cheap eBay items limited instructions. I can get to the web interface but can't see how I get a real URL link to the actual image . Thought it would be straightforward....