The wireless webcam was one of the toys I purchased when I retired at the end of 2009. Once set up at our home in Town Bush Road, I hacked a Java program to make it possible for us to copy images from the webcam to our Linux box. From there a cronjob was used to upload the latest image to a server every 10 minutes. Bruce then got Weather Underground to display the latest image from the camera on the page they generated for Pietermaritzburg's weather forecast.
Weather Underground archives these images and it is interesting to either view a video of the images for a twenty four hour period, or to look at the noon images for a calendar month. This is a useful way of comparing different places in terms of their sunniness. I have done that comparison for Pietermaritzburg, Perth and Cape Town during the mid-summer and mid-winter.
Since then a number of other websites have included the webcam image on their pages. If you would also like to use the image on one of your web pages, you can do so by embedding the following code in the page:
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