21 cm Detector Day 10

Today was a productive and exciting day.

This is the picture of when we were able to successfully get the raspberry pi connected to the internet by its ip address.

This is one of the first images that were captured when we got the stream from the camera to the internet.  We were able to figure out the port number. As long as the camera is running, anyone on the Siena network can access the live camera feed from the ip address and the port number. Any time motion is detected, the webcam takes a photo and stores it to the raspberry pi.

 

Since the camera will be on the Viper telescope, we had to make sure that we were detecting motion outside. We were able to adjust the settings of motion to put on an auto brightness. There are other settings in motion that will allow us to change the number of pictures that the webcam takes.

From here we need to see how far the camera will detect motion from. We need to test wether or not the camera will detect motion from Dr. Weatherwax's office. If it is not able to detect motion from the office, we need to find a way to mount the camera outside and find a way to remotely power the raspberry pi. No matter where the camera ends up being placed, we need to figure out how to upload the photos to dropbox which we were having difficulty with last week. Tomorrow we travel to Union College to test our detector.