Hello

I am using Image::Grab to gr1ab images off an IP Camera. That is all working OK.

The problem I have is that the timeout for a bad connection is 3minutes but I expect to be grabbing images every 60 seconds. If there is a problem with the camera, I will end up with multiple threads running waiting for an image. I have looked at the documentation here http://search.cpan.org/~mahex/Image-Grab-1.4.2/lib/Image/Grab.pod

I need to change the value of Timeout.

My code looks like this:

#get the latest image from the IP camera
my $snapshot = new Image::Grab;
$snapshot->timeout(5);  #sets the timeout (sec) for image::grab (defau
+lt is 180s)
$snapshot->url("$Camera{$key}");  # create the grab object
$snapshot->grab;    # grab the image
open (IMAGE, ">$lastsnap{$key}")  || die syslog(LOG_ERR, "Couldn't ope
+n file, $!"); # opens and clears th$
binmode IMAGE;  # for MSDOS derivations.
print IMAGE $snapshot->image;  # save the image to the /var/images/Tra
+ckcam folder
close IMAGE or die $!;

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Perl debugger spits out the following error message: 
Can't access `timeout' field in class Image::Grab at upload-images.pl 
+line 79.
 at /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2/Image/Grab.pm line 81.
        Image::Grab::AUTOLOAD('Image::Grab=HASH(0x8698344)', 5) called
+ at upload-images.pl line 79

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My question is how do I change the Timeout property to 5sec?

In reply to Setting Timeout in Image::Grab?? by dazz

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