maemo.org - Talk - Webcam Viewer app for N800?

Nice, though remember you'll have to click on your tablet once every 24 hours! lol

Anyways, if you're still looking for an alternative, I threw together a VERY basic python app that will do the same sort of thing (without needing the browser)

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python2.5



import urllib2

import os, sys

import pygame

from pygame.locals import *





def updateImage():



        tempFile = os.tempnam();

        #

        # find yourself a picture on a web page you like

        #

        # (right click on the picture, look under properties and copy the address)

        #

        picture_page = "http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logo.gif"

        #

         

        #

        # open the web page picture and read it into a variable

        #

        opener1 = urllib2.build_opener()

        #

        page1 = opener1.open(picture_page)

        #

        my_picture = page1.read()

        

        #Save to temp file

        #

        fout = open(tempFile, "wb")

        #

        fout.write(my_picture)

        #

        fout.close()

        

        

        

        screen = pygame.display.get_surface()

        

        myImage = pygame.image.load(tempFile).convert()

        

        screen.blit(myImage, (0,0))

        pygame.display.flip()

        

        os.remove(tempFile);



def main():

        #init PyGame

        pygame.init()

        window = pygame.display.set_mode((700,400))

        

        UPDATE_EVENT = pygame.USEREVENT + 1

        

        updateImage()

        pygame.time.set_timer(UPDATE_EVENT, 1000)

        

        while True:

                event = pygame.event.wait()

                if event.type == QUIT:

                        sys.exit(0)

                elif event.type == UPDATE_EVENT:

                        pygame.time.set_timer(UPDATE_EVENT, 0)

                        updateImage()

                        

                        pygame.time.set_timer(UPDATE_EVENT, 1000)

                

        #loop.run()



if __name__ == "__main__":

    main()

Just change the picture_page variable to whatever the URL of your webcam thing is and you should be good to go. It's not fancy and the coding is probably horrendous by most standards, but it should work regardless of display settings/etc.