RPI Cameras

My first sticky note is to remind myself the steps I've gone through to use some old Raspberry Pis as cameras so I can watch the cats when we're not at home.

What I've tried so far

Conclusion

It is extremely slow. I assume because its being broadcast via RTSP and then also being broadcast via MotionEye. Motion is also throwing OOM errors into dmesg. These are both probably because the pi is underpowered for what I'm trying to get it to do. Story of my life, playing around with Raspberry Pis :-D

Next steps

  1. I will re-investigate my choices regarding motion. If I am using RTSP do I need to run libcamerify with motion?
  2. I will see if running the RTSP stream alone is faster than rerouting it through MotionEye – I suspect it would be.
  3. I will look for some simpler remote video solutions as a proof of concept before trying to setup the full MotionEye system, and see if other things natively support the camera module.
  4. I could also try run MotionEye on a standalone pi as a server, maybe a Pi 2 that doesn't have wifi, and run my cameras on my pi3s and connect them all as remote cameras.

That's all for now.

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