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One of my little side projects is building outdoor web cameras.
The number of cameras I've setup has grown over time. It all started with the Tammisalo Webcam back in January 2006
so that I could look at the snow levels while I was in the UK.
The Tammisalo and Vuosaari webcams are in the eastern suburbs of Finland's capital city, Helsinki. The Vuosaari cameras
show the views from the tallest residential building in Finland. The Ruka web camera is on the hillside of a popular skiing resort in
Lapland, northern Finland.
Clicking a cam loads a larger version. Also, check out the time lapse videos
further down the page. You can also view the
Vuosaari Webcams and the Ruka Webcam on their own sites.
For more detailed information on how they are set up please see the technical details
at the bottom.
Vuosaari Cam 1
(11°C)
Last update:
17:01:09 EEST, 20 April 2018
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Vuosaari Cam 2
Last update:
16:03:05 EEST, 20 April 2018
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Vuosaari Cam 3
Last update:
16:04:05 EEST, 20 April 2018
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Ruka Webcam
(0.1°C)
Last update:
17:04:08 EEST, 20 April 2018
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Tammisalo Webcam
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Last update:
16:03:08 EEST, 20 April 2018
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Everyday the webcam images are archived and over time I'll be adding a few time lapse videos to this page.
You can see a year in 35 seconds from the Tammisalo and Chalfont cams by clicking on the thumbnails below.
More coming soon.
Chalfont Cam 1, 10:00, Time Lapse
January 2007 - January 2008
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Tammisalo Cam 2, 16:00, Time Lapse
January 2007 - January 2008
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Tammisalo Cam 1, 10:00, Time Lapse
March 2006 - March 2007
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The cameras are various mixtures of analogue PAL cameras connected to Aviosys IP9100A and Vivotek VS8100 video servers.
These video servers allow you to plug in standard analogue CCTV cameras and broadcast them directly on the Internet.
The exception is Vuosaari Cam 1 which is an
Axis 207MW web cam with built in server and produces slightly higher resolution images. The Ruka and Tammisalo
video servers are connected to standard home ADSL lines and the Vuosaari cameras are on a high speed fibre connection.
A remote web server at a data centre in London then collects daily images from the four locations using a couple of home made PHP and
bash shell scripts, stores them for presentation on this web site, and archives them for collection later.
More recently I also wrote an automated script to show the last 24 hours
of "action" on Vuosaari Cam 1. It can produce some nice sequences at times.
One of the home CCTV cameras
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An Aviosys IP Video 9100A server
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