I’ve just updated the Manx TT Webcams page I had on this blog with a new version as someone pointed out that one of the webcams wasn’t working. I’ve also increased the refresh rate to 15 seconds, alhough if the source for the webcam doesn’t update, then you won’t see much difference. I wish there streaming webcams around, but I can’t seem to find any available ones.
When the TT races are on, you’ll see that certain areas of the course will be closed off. Also, thanks to the webcams you’ll be able to see if it’s foggy over the mountain and the road is closed. So Jim, if you’re planning on popping down to Ramsey to collect your horse supplies, check the webcams first.
Apologies for the Bushy’s cam being a bit flaky, there’s a bug in the Axis firmware that means it can’t do a nice ‘FTP to temp file, quick-delete orig, quick-rename’ when uploading to modern Windows IIS servers. As a result, depending on the refresh you’ll get a partially-uploaded image some of the time, bah. (I’ve opened a bug report with Axis, but I can’t see them fixing it for a good while yet.)
@Stef: do you guys have the bandwidth to run the Axis in streaming mode? That would be pretty cool
Not this year, unfortunately. Joe from WiManx got in touch and very kindly offered us the use of their WiMax and hosting, but unfortunately it was too late to get it sorted before everything was set up. Next year, though!