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[mattmanmm]

Hey can anyone help me out here. I have no experience with this language what so ever and I kinda want to know how easy it will be to make a program closes / minuses certain windows when a webcam sees movement and also shuts down the web cam.

is it complicated or simple?

thanks a lot 4 the help guys!

Matt :thumbup:

[Alexander]

I believe you can utilize a Python extension of a software to access the web cam, VideoCapture - A Win32 Python Extension for Accessing Video Devices (e.g. a USB WebCam, a TV-Card, ...) but you would need to learn how to work with it in, and possible some algorithms to detect simple movement, which may be fairly complicated in itself.

[mattmanmm]

hey thanks but I mean just any movement would that be hard?

[Alexander]

I am not sure, you would need to calibrate for the webcam's quality (such as random static possibly counting as movement), I believe a forum suited to electrical engineering may be able to help you in this topic, it is just very specific (and may not had been done before really in Python)

[kctan]

You may want to take a look at OpenCV.
OpenCV 2.1 Python Reference — opencv v2.1 documentation