On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Bob Carpenter. [email protected]
wrote:
Do you think I’ll be able to access the ethernet port with Ruby? Or do
you see a better way to grab the image stream? Googling for Ruby
ethernet didn’t yield much, but I’ll keep digging.
Sure. via HTTP, FTP, &c. Ruby doesn’t much care about the hardware you
use for network access, since that’s OS level work. 
The question is if you need to, which is unlikely: IP cameras have a
web interface (make sure to secure that!). And how to access the pure
audio/video stream really depends on the camera and how it does stream
the video feed (if at all, but it should).
To discuss that, though, ruby-talk is the wrong forum.
–
Phillip G.
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A method of solution is perfect if we can forsee from the start,
and even prove, that following that method we shall attain our aim.
– Leibniz
Phillip G. wrote in post #1011814:
The question is if you need to, which is unlikely: IP cameras have a
web interface (make sure to secure that!). And how to access the pure
audio/video stream really depends on the camera and how it does stream
the video feed (if at all, but it should).
To discuss that, though, ruby-talk is the wrong forum. 
Thanks again. I am studying the Ruby Sockets class now and will see if I
can make some progress.
I’ll post further questions to the appropriate forum.
–Bob
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Bob Carpenter. [email protected]
wrote:
Thanks again. I am studying the Ruby Sockets class now and will see if I
can make some progress.
Take a look at Mechanize, too: It allows you to programmatically
navigate a web page. Could be useful if there’s no SNMP support, for
example.
And please, don’t hesitate to ask Ruby related questions!
–
Phillip G.
phgaw.posterous.com | twitter.com/phgaw | gplus.to/phgaw
A method of solution is perfect if we can forsee from the start,
and even prove, that following that method we shall attain our aim.
– Leibniz