jambo135
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:18PM (#26457426)
On a clear day this would definitely help however where I live in the UK there is frequent cloud cover. As the sun passes in and out of the clouds the light levels end up changing a surprising amount, causing frequent exposure flashes on the camera which essentially voids the calibration. In trying to achieve very high sensitivity I could not really make any kind of rolling calibration work sadly
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:20AM (#26456113)
There is a hard limit of 100 saved images per capture session so no risk of blowing up your phone . Yeah I would like to add a settings page for people who know what they are looking for. That is a good idea thanks!
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:13AM (#26456056)
I wasn't able to test much on iOS unfortunately. I know on Windows 10 if one browser is already using the camera it will say camera unavailable when launching a different browser. I am not sure if it is related to this?
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:29AM (#26454766)
Cool I will look into this. Thank you
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:02AM (#26454626)
haha I have experienced lots of these problems while testing and tried my best to build in logic to detect 'real' motion. However since I wanted it sensitive enough to detect things like a slow moving woodlouse there will always be false detections unfortunately. One of my tests I couldn't work out why tin foil was flagging as motion, turned out it was the moon outside the window hitting it at different angles during the night!
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:58AM (#26454611)
It will use whichever camera the browser has configured as it's default. You may be able to change this in your browser settings
Re:Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image ...
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:55AM (#26454599)
Yeah the original image is retained, when you open the image full size there is a button in the modal that lets you toggle the motion highlights on and off. The downloaded image will also just be the original as captured by the camera