Camera feed refresh

I have a web camera on my site that shows the construction. It is refreshed at one min. intervals and I had the refreshing fine with my old site. I have just uploaded my new/first site with Freeway. Now in Freeway I can not seem to get this to auto refresh the page. I’m sure it is something simple I have missed but I’m stumped. rebuild is the page I am talking about. I have tried the meta content refresh tag but it just doesn’t seem to work. Thanks for any ideas in advance.
Dave


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You have the code for the meta tag all messed up. Instead of making it manually, try using the Timed Redirect Action to code this for you. Note how the following is essentially a tag inside another tag.

<meta name="refresh" content="http-equiv=refresh content="61; URL=http://sistudio.net/rebuild.html"">

If you do want to do it in the Page > Meta Tag dialog (manually), then click on the System (http-equiv) segment of that dialog, rather than the User segment (where I suspect you were). Click on New, and in the Name field, enter only the word refresh, and in the value field, enter 61. When you publish, you will see this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="61">

Which is what you want to end up with.

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Thanks that was it. I had tried to copy the line from the old site and that was where I wen wrong. It is working even better now than it did with the old site.


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OK I have now discovered a problem that I am at a loss to figure out. The refreshed image from the camera feed is 640 x 480 and I have no way to change this every 60 seconds, but I want it to display at 480 x 360 on the web page so that it will fit the browser window on smaller screens better. How would I force the refreshed image to maintain the 480 x 360 size? Or, Another thing that would help is when the page auto refreshes it also moves down to the image.


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How would I force the refreshed image to maintain the 480 x 360 size?

The crude solution would be to make sure the img tag that references
the image is given a specific pixel width and height size. That will
force the image to fit into that size.

The more sophisticated solution would be to use something like a PHP
script to use GD (graphics processing) on the server to resize the
image to the correct size before it is served. But that’s probably
overkill for this particular requirement, even though it would be
nicer in the sense that you wouldn’t be serving a
larger-than-necessary image.

Or, Another thing that would help is when the page auto refreshes
it also moves down to the image.

Put an anchor into the right spot, then make the refresh targget the
anchor as well, in the URL.

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As always someone has the answer I need.
Thank you, the size after the url worked.
I could have done this (or seen this easier) in a regular html page like Go live created but figuring out how to do this in Freeway is sometimes a challenge for me.

Someday I might even learn some more basic html.


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…but figuring out how to do this in Freeway is sometimes a challenge for me.

Brother, your not the only one. :wink:


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