Thread: [Announce] Smartcam Maemo 5 Port - Now with more Qt
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2011-04-12 , 22:45
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Originally Posted by azkay View Post
So instead of using it as a webcam, your watching the n95 stream- on the n900?

That might work. I mean, I dont have an N97 anymore for testing, but I should be able to get around that (I can just use what I already use the n900 for, and relay it back or something for testing).

I can look into it once I figure out this GUI situation. It should be easily doable, though.

Maybe an always running background "monitor" process? Running on the n900, every X seconds it would tcpconnect to the PC smartcam server, if it exists, start smartcamM5+connect? If not, wait a few seconds and check again?
Why not be able to use smartcam on the n900 as on the a PC - sorting out the kernel driver issue for one I imagine? But yes, it would be nice.

As for the always available cam issue, it in fact means making the n900 smartcam more server-liḱe and the PC more client-like (the classic webcam design) and thus the very opposite of how smartcam was conceived. Your description above sounds good. Perhaps as an option - ie it can go away for good as it does now, or it can spawn the listener process?