garagedoor with a webpage and livestream

Hello all,

I am a student IT and I need to make a model garagedoor and operate it with the arduino uno. I have to be able to control it on a webpage that also has a livestream from a webcam showing the garagedoor. I know the ethernet shield can't handle livestream but is it possible to host the webpage on my computer and send the commands to the ethernet shield to tell the uno to open/close the garagedoor? Or is it better to leave the webcam and just host the webpage on the ethernet shield? Also can someone give me some information how to do this?

Kind regards
Jos Coeckelbergs

is it possible to host the webpage on my computer and send the commands to the ethernet shield to tell the uno to open/close the garagedoor?

The Arduino-as-server can be sent GET requests (or POST requests, but GET is easier to deal with) that contain the data needed for the Arduino to determine whether to open or close the door, as a result of a submit button on a form served by a different server. That server could be your PC.

Also can someone give me some information how to do this?

How to do what? Have the Arduino act as a server? Have the Arduino parse the GET request? Have the Arduino open and close the door?

What part are you going to be doing?

j_coeckelbergs:
is it possible to host the webpage on my computer and send the commands to the ethernet shield to tell the uno to open/close the garagedoor?

Yes, that's the way I'd do it. Whether the door opening command comes from the PC or the Arduino depends how you want that to be triggered. If you intend to have somebody sat in front of the PC all day clicking the door open and closed as required, it should be initiated from the webapp. But if it's going to be triggered from a radio control/keypad/etc at the door operated by the person wanting to get in, then it would make more sense to have the Arduino controlling it directly.

Somebody else asked a similar question recently - presumably one of your classmates - so if you search out their post you might find some more hints.

PeterH:

j_coeckelbergs:
is it possible to host the webpage on my computer and send the commands to the ethernet shield to tell the uno to open/close the garagedoor?

Yes, that's the way I'd do it. Whether the door opening command comes from the PC or the Arduino depends how you want that to be triggered. If you intend to have somebody sat in front of the PC all day clicking the door open and closed as required, it should be initiated from the webapp. But if it's going to be triggered from a radio control/keypad/etc at the door operated by the person wanting to get in, then it would make more sense to have the Arduino controlling it directly.

Somebody else asked a similar question recently - presumably one of your classmates - so if you search out their post you might find some more hints.

The idea is to just operate it on a computer since it's just small scale and I don't have any understanding of arduino etc. yet.

Thanks for the information :wink:

PaulS:

is it possible to host the webpage on my computer and send the commands to the ethernet shield to tell the uno to open/close the garagedoor?

The Arduino-as-server can be sent GET requests (or POST requests, but GET is easier to deal with) that contain the data needed for the Arduino to determine whether to open or close the door, as a result of a submit button on a form served by a different server. That server could be your PC.

Also can someone give me some information how to do this?

How to do what? Have the Arduino act as a server? Have the Arduino parse the GET request? Have the Arduino open and close the door?

What part are you going to be doing?

Thanks for the information :wink:

I'll probably be hosting the page on my computer so I can also put videofeed on it from a webcam