Load Image from URL

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Load Image from URL

by: jvcleave (community developer)

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created:12/13/07
popularity rank:2/79
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Loads single jpg, gif or png from given URL.

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Comments:

  • Plug Nickel

    September 29, 2008

    Hello, I asked a question in the forum under widgets...it seems that although my cmaera shows up fine and works under the dashboard, all I get is a white screen on my chumby. Any ideas?

  • brendanjcrlsn

    August 19, 2008

    Can You Provide A Link to The FLV of This I'd like to make A widget similar to It But I need the Flv For the Source Code

  • ccolumbu

    August 14, 2008

    It is great to see my idea helping so many people and special thanks to jvcleave for creating the widget which I could not. It looks like the community is expanding the idea a lot! That is GREAT, I hope everyone enjoys Chumby even more and will continue supporting it.

  • nickovs

    August 5, 2008

    This is an excellent widget. Just what I was looking for! The only thing that would make it better would be if the time between refreshes could be configured.

  • obhchum

    July 26, 2008

    Since I applied the July 24 firmware upgrade the .png images have become even more difficult to view. Something about how large images and scaled down. Does anyone else see this problem? Try this as a sample: http://www.pust.it/eth0-month.png

  • Cartmanland

    July 5, 2008

    whats the "prevent caching" for exactly?

  • Grummond

    June 8, 2008

    Best Webcam widget by far, fantastic job!

  • obhchum

    May 26, 2008

    Has anyone else tried displaying .png graphs from the MRTG network monitoring software with this widget? When I configure to do this the graph is "doubled" making it difficult to view. Otherwise, this is a great widget. Here is an example file that shows the problem: http://www.pust.it/eth0-month.png

  • grey3000

    May 25, 2008

    Hate to double post, but is there anyway to add a small text title like to the top left corner or anything through the config? I'd like to label the cam like "fishtank" or "halfdome" etc.

  • grey3000

    May 25, 2008

    This is probably my most favorite widget, I've got my fish tank, my favorite hiking places ( that have webcams ), volcanos. the uses are endless! :)

  • AlanM

    May 16, 2008

    In trying to use this widget, I discovered that the URLs for most of the images I'd like (such as "photo of the day") change from day to day. I went through about 10 sites, but the URL of the main image was dynamic for each. So I can't use the widget as-is. So it would be nice for the widget to be able to display the largest image on a web page. I realize that this is much more difficult to program.

  • jvcleave

    April 28, 2008

    alexholy, it still works. email me at jvcleave@gmail.com if you are having problems or post support questions in the forum and I may be able to see what is going wrong

  • alexholy

    April 24, 2008

    Seems this widget does not (does no longer?) work! Tried with several static .png on a variety of servers, but the Chumby screen always stays all white :(

  • renefhenke

    April 11, 2008

    Hi, first off....thank you! I was waiting for that a long time... One question: I would like to use this widget to check security cam's in my office, but they use authentication. I tried the standard way e.g. user:password@ste.com/pic.jpg but that isn't working... any chance you could get this to work ? I'm willing to help e.g. provide a cam to try and even donate some paypal cash!!!

  • jvcleave

    March 21, 2008

    Mikkel (or anyone else interested), I have a version I personally use that does reloads every second (not configurable yet). If you would like to beta test it add "jvcleave" to your chum list and email me at jvcleave@gmail.com and I will forward it to you.

  • Mikkel

    March 20, 2008

    Is it possible to make the widget reload the image with a user configurable interval?

  • HuckFinnWork

    March 12, 2008

    I have several instances of this widget loaded on my Chumby - thanks for this widget. I do have one request though, could you change the default color to something darker? I am not sure if this is your widget or just the way the widgets are handled, but as the image loads the screen flashes white. This can be very annoying in the early morning just after the Chumby wakes up. Anything dark would be fine with me - black, dark blue, dark grey, etc. Thanks again for this great widget.

  • rleyba

    February 18, 2008

    Hi there! Your widget may very well be the killer app in my chumby but the most important web cams I need just show up as a red blank screeen. I saw your comment above in an earlier post, but perhaps there is hope?? Sample webcam I need is this: http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/trafficreports/cameras/camera_images/harbourbridge.jpg Thanks very much!

  • nzenergy

    February 4, 2008

    this is great, I added two load image from URL to my channel to switch between the two cameras at http://mauiwindcam.com It works perfectly.

  • mmaslen

    January 29, 2008

    all I get is a red chumby screen when I put in a valid URL?? any ideas?

  • jvcleave

    January 25, 2008

    The swf loading is kinda a hidden feature as most of them not work correctly. Animated gifs are not supported in Flash 8/Flash lite so thats just not currently possible. The first frame of an animated gif should load and display though.

  • McConnell

    January 25, 2008

    You have doubled the intrinsic value of my chumby. Many thanks!

  • hlcno

    January 25, 2008

    This works with swf too!

  • hlcno

    January 24, 2008

    this is sweet, anyway for it to support animated gifs? that would be awesome.

  • ccolumbu

    January 20, 2008

    Thank you for creating the widget we designed in the Forums. I can't encourage this kind of collaboration enough; it is what makes open source great.

  • anthony

    January 19, 2008

    works awesome...I use it to finally get nexrad weather displayed from the weather.com site. Can do it for nation or any area..works perfect. Thanks for putting it up!

  • dcjohn

    January 18, 2008

    thanks so much for creating this widget!

  • jmiller29

    January 17, 2008

    Awesome all purpose image displayer. Use for anything like weather images, webcams, etc.. Makes chumby more useful.