taking pics every hour with isightcapture

by barce on March 23, 2007

I just started using isightcapture, a command-line tool for creating pics from your isight on Mac OS X. It’s pretty easy to use.

Save isightcapture to your bin.

Type isightcapture name_of_your_pic.jpg and voila, a pick of you.
You can also crontab it with

5 * * * * isightcapture $HOME/Pictures/icons/crontab.jpg

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catalyst April 18, 2007 at 8:08 pm: I did something similar with this but I have it take a pic and grab network info and email it to myself.
Frank June 30, 2007 at 3:31 pm: I have been doing the same thing but since about a week ago, isightcapture will not save any pictures when run via the crontab. When run via the command line, it works fine, but from cron, I see that it executes because I save the output via the -d command line option. Can you please see if it still works for you via a crontab?

I also tried running it via the sudo crontab -e root level crontab with no luck. I’m thinking a security update is not allowing this anymore?