the ajaxcam guy is doing exactly what I posted. I just left off the cache busting random number (the Math.Random part) that he uses because it doesn't work with all feeds. It shouldn't be necessary with an IP camera; but I guess it is with the one you're using.

perhaps if you put a textbox on the page and give it focus, the browser will maintain focus and keep refreshing.

Is it a webcam taht ANYONE could or should see?
I am just asking because if yes, then i could make a mojocafe.net
widget out of it!

no, private

Well I had thought it was working with email notifcations off, but turned it on today and back to same issue it appears, seems as if the script just stops running in the browser for some reason. Not sure why it works sometimes and not others now :-\ Something must be takign focus or an issue with browser itself.

I guess maybe the N800 needs to go back to collectign dust at this point if a simple script wont work consistently and no other webcam viewer options

If it is indeed an MJPEG stream, then you can use mplayer as I'd originally suggested:

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view...gStreamViewing

If it's just a sequence of JPEG images that you must manually refresh, then your browser approach is probably the easiest solution; try turning the setTimeout value up so that it's refreshing a little less often and see if that has any effect.

It is just a series of JPEGs. The script finally worked yesterdya when I tyrned off email notifications, but today after a restart it doesn't work at all No idea why.

It appears to be perhaps some weird glitch related to the screen settings to auto turn it off. Even though I have it set to always be on when charging, it seems to stay lit but appear disabled. I reduced the time settings in there to 30 seconds and the website seems to freeze around that time. Only a guess at this point :-\

Edit - seems to be the case, set to 1 min on display settigns and web froze after 1 min, same at 30 seconds setting.

Any ideas why this would happen when it is plugged in and anyway to override?

My guess based on that feedback would be that the browser is doing power saving by stopping anything that it's running after the given idle time, whether the screen is "on" or not. (Remember screen on != idle or active).

Perhaps a better approach would be to build a simple python application that periodically loads the given image file and displays it on screen... shouldn't be very hard to do using something like pygame.
Hopefully somebody with a bit more python experience steps up here, but if not I'll see if I can throw something basic together at some point this evening...

Turned out it was the screen display setting. Set them to 24 hours instead of 5 mins and works fine.