how to get image generated by mobile phone to computer's labview program?

[Willa_Liu]

I have written a labview program to write data from a text document to insert into a excel.

at the same time, I need to take photos of a part by mobile phone.

I need to insert the image into the excel to by real-time.

I have searched the internet, maybe a IP webcam is a solution.

but how to install the IP webcam software on my computer?

or do you know other best solutions for this?

waiting for your reply.

[Bob_Schor]

With a Cell Phone, you can easily take pictures and can easily send them to an e-mail address (your own, perhaps).  Now you need to get them from an E-mail into LabVIEW -- not sure how you'd do that (though you can "listen" for the "You have Mail!" sound, open the e-mail, read it, save the picture to a file, and now LabVIEW can "notice" a new file and process it, not a very practical solution ...).

You mentioned a "Web Camera".  LabVIEW does have Vision Acquisition Software (for an additional license), but this is much less "easy to use" than ordinary DAQmx-type LabVIEW acquisition.

Bob Schor

[ainnrc]

You might want to try this.

[cbutcher]

Depending on your willingness to write an application for the phone in question, you could also consider a LabVIEW web service - something like having the application receive requests from the LabVIEW web service and then take a picture and return it. Streaming continuously would also be possible, but now I'd say you've lost the benefit vs IP WebCam or similar.

I suspect clnglenn's solution is simpler though...

[RolfO]

I am not familiar with DropBox or backup form Android. But would it be possible to set up DropBox to automatically upload photos from the camera, and let LabVIEW look for new files in the dropbox-folder?

Or something similar?