Keeping Tabs On Your Bot From Another Machine.

**tylrdiablos** · 03-26-2008

Rather than post pointless crap you've all seen before, I've been waiting until I thought of something worthwhile.
(Hence the "Leecher" title.)

At the moment I'm using Flo's Alterac Valley bot a fair bit but mainly whilst I'm in the same room watching a DVD or playing on the 360.
Today I'll have to venture out and I want to keep an eye on what the bot is doing.

Here's how I'll be doing it...

What you need:
Desktop Capture program - Free from Dna.ware - My cat's breath smells like cat food
(Desktop Grabber.)

A free webspace account that supports FTP.
(I'm using an Axspace.com account. You can create one here: AXSpace.com, Free and Cheap linux WebHosting, $1.00 USD per Month or anywhere else with FTP support. Simply Google for "free hosting with FTP support".)

Install Desktop Grabber and launch it. Click FILE and goto SETTINGS.
In there you'll want to enter the FTP details provided to you by the webspace host.
Make sure the "Uploaded Dir" is set correctly and for the sake of this tutorial set the "Uploaded File" as "cam" without the quotation marks.
I left the capture interval at 1 minute. You can change it if you wish.

Now you'll want to create a HTML file for you to view. Here is the code from mine:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="55;
 url=http://<YOUR-DOMAIN-INFO.com"/>

<title>Camera</title>
<html>

<IMG SRC="http://<YOUR-DOMAIN-INFO>.com/cam.jpg"></IMG><p>
This Page Should Auto-Reload Itself Every 25-30 Seconds.<br>

</BODY>

</html>

Edit the <YOUR-DOMAIN-INFO> to whatever address you registered.
The content="55; is the time between page auto-reloads.
If you changed the capture interval on Desktop Grabber then 55 is useless to you.
Change it to reflect your capture time.

Launch WoW and your bot and set Desktop Grabber to "Start Capture".
(You can do this by right-clicking the taskbar icon, you don't have to
fully open it's main window.)
I like putting WoW in Windowed mode to make things easier.
The bot will go about it's usual business and the Desktop Grabber program will take a screenshot every X seconds
and then upload it via FTP to your site. (Overwriting the previous image.)

Make a note of your URL in your cell/mobile phone or email it to yourself
so it's always handy when you're away from your WoW machine.

Now when you're at work/a friend's house/somewhere without WoW installed, simply
visit your URL and you can see how the bot is doing.

Obviously if the bot has been disconnected or is struggling with a tree
in front of it's waypoints then there's nothing you can do unless you
allow Remote Access but that's a different tutorial altogether.
This is simply for satisfying your curiosity whilst at a non-WoW machine.

Hope someone finds this useful and hopefully I haven't missed anything.
(I'll keep editing the topic if I have, no worries.)

Good luck, feel free to post questions and I'll answer them best I can.
(When I get home :-P )

**krazy1killa** · 03-27-2008

Nice but a bit on the technical side im sure I could pull it off but I think it would still be easier to either leave it on and risk it or turn it off and be safe.

**PBALLER325** · 03-27-2008

sounds cool ill give it a go

**tylrdiablos** · 03-28-2008

Thanks for the REP and comments guys.

As I was typing this up the Axspace signup server went down for a few hours

and Flos awesome bot stopped working due to the 2.4 patch.

Oh well, plenty more FTP supporting free sites, Flos fixing his bot and if anyone needs any further help setting up their cam and site then just PM me and I'll help you out.

/me wanders off to think up something else useful to post

**Norea** · 03-28-2008

Will certainly try this out when flos bot is up again!

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