Glastocam!

[Ayrshire Chris]

1 hour ago, deebeedoobee said:

 

Nothing compared to the thick perfume rising from the fields this week following the pumping of cow juice on them. Those fields don’t get that lush green colour from rain alone.

Anyone who lives in a rural area like we do is well aware of the stinky slurry spreading season.!   It was strange to see back in the fallow year of 2018 when we had a wee holiday in Pilton that the spring ground down to the JP was a field of cereal .   So different from seeing it full of tents. 

[leath02]

51 minutes ago, Cheesey said:

Here's my Javascript tool for retrieving webcam images, including stitching together the super high resolution images if they're available:

https://www.tievolu.co.uk/glasto/GlastoWebcamTool.html

Choose your date/time then click the image to download the highest resolution available in a new window. If the super high resolution image parts don't exist, or can't be downloaded for some reason, it downloads the "default" resolution instead.

Note: I can't be bothered to make it look nicer 😀

(I've had to use an open CORS proxy because the server responses for the older high resolution part images don't have the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header set. This seems to be an oversight, because recent snapshots have Access-Control-Allow-Origin set to allow all origins, as do the redirect URLs for the old images - but the response when retrieving the final URL does not. The CORS proxy is a bit of a fudge, and it's limited to 5 requests per second so it might not work properly sometimes.)

this is particularly excellent for anyone wondering what time the campsites fill up / trying to persaude their mates the genuine necessity to set off that extra hour earlier

[giantkatestacks]

@Cheesey you are a genius - now I can watch us work every morning!

[Sku]

13 minutes ago, leath02 said:

this is particularly excellent for anyone wondering what time the campsites fill up / trying to persaude their mates the genuine necessity to set off that extra hour earlier

Yeah I was just doing this.

When it comes to some of the more popular campsites that are in shot:
-9am plenty
-10am should be able to find a bit of space here and there
-11am your gonna have to search and squeeze in
-Midday "How about that spot next to the longdrops?"

[giantkatestacks]

Thankfully the resolution not good enough for me to see myself being hoicked over the barrier at Kylie in my gold shiny hot pants. 

[stuartbert two hats]

12 minutes ago, giantkatestacks said:

Thankfully the resolution not good enough for me to see myself being hoicked over the barrier at Kylie in my gold shiny hot pants. 

Or mine!

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, stuartbert two hats said:

Or mine!

Not that I'm suggesting @giantkatestackswears my gold shiny hot pants.

[rebus]

I've set up the webcam as an always upto date PC screensaver, bit clunky and I'm sure theres probably better ways of doing it - works for me though so though I'd post it in case its useful to anyone.

The screensaver I use is WPanorama from http://www.wpanorama.com/ and is freeware.  Its very good and pans the whole webcam image very smoothly.  Only real issue is that it works off a locally stored file rather than directly from the internet.  

So seperately I download the "https://live-image.panomax.com/cams/879/recent_full.jpg" file and then the screensaver uses that.

I do it automatically via a cron job on my QNAP Nas (instructions from https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Add_items_to_crontab ).

6-59/5 * * * * wget -q https://live-image.panomax.com/cams/879/recent_full.jpg -O /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/Photos/Glastonbury/recent_full.jpg --no-check-certificate

Above works perfectly, the webcam seems to update every 5 mins with a small delay, so I download at 6 mins past the hours then 11/16 etc, the above cron job achieves that

On windows you could also use something like "https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/seqdownload.html" which is a small app that auto downloads a file multiple times.

Its nice that everytime my screensaver kicks in it displays the latest webcam image and pans the image.

Ideally I'd have a screensaver that would download from the url every time it activates and theres probably one out there but I couldn't find one.

Edited April 7, 2022 by rebus

[blutarsky]

This is AMAZING @Cheesey!

Unfortunately the woods means I can't find my tent in 2019 - it's roughly where the red x is through the trees. 

[JoeyT]

Check out the Pyramid showing off it's abs

[tumbles]

Hopefully avoiding the absolute shitstorm of rain that's just laded in North Somerset. 

[deebeedoobee]

4 minutes ago, tumbles said:

Hopefully avoiding the absolute shitstorm of rain that's just laded in North Somerset. 

Pilton is basking in sunshine this afternoon. If it wasn’t for that pesky wind it would be taps aff.

[tumbles]

8 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

Pilton is basking in sunshine this afternoon. If it wasn’t for that pesky wind it would be taps aff.

Rain, Thunder/Lightening & Hail on and off here since about midday!  

[deebeedoobee]

8 minutes ago, tumbles said:

Rain, Thunder/Lightening & Hail on and off here since about midday!  

Blimey, hope the Pilton force field stays in place!

[Stokesy10]

41 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

Check out the Pyramid showing off it's abs

Forget the Pyramid look at the size of that horse at the back!

[tumbles]

5 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

Forget the Pyramid look at the size of that horse at the back!

Edited April 7, 2022 by tumbles

[Ayrshire Chris]

13 minutes ago, Stokesy10 said:

Forget the Pyramid look at the size of that horse at the back!

It’s a Trojan horse full of ticketless punters desperate to get in. 

[al_coholic]

1 hour ago, Stokesy10 said:

Forget the Pyramid look at the size of that horse at the back!

That genuinely made me LOL. Have and upvote sir. The sooner that horse rides off into the sunset the better

[Pinhead]

Seeing her get dressed for the first time since 19 is possibly the most thrilling thing I've seen in all that time....

[tumbles]

Glorious

[Smeble]

On 4/6/2022 at 3:33 PM, Neville Street said:

Chopper alert!!

Looks like a Merlin, which is quite appropriate for the area.

[Madyaker]

Why's it gone all wobbly like people at the stone circle?

[Dukeicon]

Just now, Madyaker said:

Why's it gone all wobbly like people at the stone circle?

If the wind blows as it's taking a picture, you get a wavy picture.

[Pinhead]

3 minutes ago, Smeble said:

Looks like a Merlin, which is quite appropriate for the area.

Military. Defence paradigm has changed recently. MOD been moving some of their big stuff around...

[pilton digger]

26 minutes ago, Smeble said:

Looks like a Merlin, which is quite appropriate for the area.

Merlin doing routine training from Yeovilton. Get lots of the egotistical gits flying over the site and village.