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Created June 6, 2011 13:16
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Take a webcam capture, store it and push a notification.
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face-capture-timed.sh
#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%s`
FILENAME="/home/username/CamStream/$DATE.jpeg"
# Call the streamer
streamer -f jpeg -o $FILENAME
# Display a user notification
DISPLAY=:0.0 notify-send -u 'low' -i $FILENAME "Cheese!" "Stream saved!"
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Tested on Ubuntu 11,
added to Crontab :

(every 10 minutes)

*/10 * * * * /home/username/CamStream/streamer.sh

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