2015-02-01



Over a decade ago I bought a webcam, just to experient with it. I
haven't  used it much since then, and hardly ever during the last
five years. Now, I thought that it would be cool to automatically
take pictures of the weather outside ... over a year or so. ;-)

I plugged the webcam in. It worked at once. I could grab pictures
with  the  program  `webcam' (Debian package) and get a live view
with:

     mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0

Unfortunately, I am not able to take the weather pictures I want.
The  webcam works fine inside the room, where everything is quite
dark, but as soon as I aim it outside, in to the light, it  kinda
hangs:  The whole picture goes white and flickers ... just as the
webcam would be

overwhelmed by all the light. If I turn it back to the  room,  it
starts  to  work  again. I'm not sure if the problem is the cheap
webcam or the driver.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>