Integrating CSB 5. and a webcam

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Currently using CSB 5.0. Would like to integrate a camera with still uploads every 5 minutes or so to show projects in the shop. From my limited knowledge I believe I can choose from many programs that will publish a still image on the schedule I desire to a file at our URL. However it's not clear to me how the CSB 5.0 would access the info in that file to display it and what the simplest way is to manage a URL with CSB and whatever webcam software that's chosen. Anyone here have experience in this feat? Thanks

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Welcome to the forum 

If your web cam software will upload an image to a folder/imageName on your web space
then on the page where you want the image to display
use the insert html feature to add

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<img src="domain/folder/imageName" width="" height="" alt="web cam" />

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Thanks Turtle that's a start. However, it's still not clear to me how I would create and maintain the destination file with CSB. If the destination file is not contained within CSB, would it not overwrite and delete it each time I publish with CSB?

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You would set up the folder for the images separately, outside of CSB.
Use an FTP software to ADD a new folder to your website.  Or many control panels have a FILE MANAGER or way to access the folder list to add new folder.

For a free FTP tool, check out CoreFTP Lite.  http://www.coreftp.com/

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The web cam image would be uploaded automatically by the software you choose.
Be sure to have the image go to a new folder, then link to it in CSB
The visitors browser will load the current image whatever it is.

I upload all my images and link to them this way.
So my tlx file is very small.
Other wise it would be huge with more than 104 meg of images.
I can't imagine how big the tlx file would be and how slow.

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One of my clients who builds with CSB4 links to all photos on his site.  More than 1000 graphs and charts updated daily or weekly!  Just uploads new set of images (keeps name the same) and the web page pulls in all images into page.

We split his OUTRAGEOUSLY large tlx file to 9 subs, took out the images and the remaining TLX files still average 8-11MB each.   Works out GREAT.