Steve Woods, a freelance web designer and ASP.NET MVC Developer from Hull in the UK


06 May 2010Tyne Tunnel Webcams for Windows Mobile 6

As everyone who uses the Tyne Tunnel knows, sometimes it's good to be able to look ahead to see what road conditions are like, as it tends to get fairly busy at peak times of the day.
 
As a regular user of the Tunnel, last night I decided to build a simple application for my phone in C# using the Windows Mobile SDK so that I can quickly load up the webcams which are available at www.tt2.co.uk - hopefully it'll be of use to some other people with Windows Mobile phones, and i've made it available to download below.
 
Here's a few screenshots:
 
t_webcams01.png t_webcams02.png
 
t_webcams03.png t_webcams04.png
 
As you can see it's fairly basic but it has a user-selectable "auto update every X seconds" facility, a toggleable "auto cycle" through all available cameras facility, and that's er, pretty much it - obviously an internet connection is required and remember to close the app if you get charged for data (or it'll refresh every 30 seconds by default!)

This is only tested on an O2 XDA Orbit II handset - it requires QVGA Portrait mode and I have no idea whether it'll work on any other device - use at your own risk.
 
Download it from http://www.swoo.co.uk/public/TyneTunnelWebcams.zip (25Kb, drag the executable within to your device and run it).
 
I hope you find it useful - comments welcome :)
 

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