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Hammel, 12 Nov 2019 21:03
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| 3 | 2 | Hammel | _This is only in the idea stage. No development on this has started._ |
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| 5 | 1 | Hammel | Making remote camera controlled by Ironman has been an interesting problem. Many solutions use Arduinos. But then I ran across an interesting idea using a "RPi Zero W set inside a dummy camera housing":https://youtu.be/H7p5YEOrlSc. That led me to think about how I can use PiBox directly instead of using an Arduino based solution. |
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| 8 | 2 | Hammel | |!{width:640px}ironman-camera.png!| |
| 9 | 1 | Hammel | |={font-size:120%;margin-bottom:15px;background-color:#dff}. *High Level Camera Design* | |
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| 11 | The camera is based on a RPi Zero W running a new PiBox Lite release (PiBox stripped of X and other unnecessary components). A web API is built using Mongoose (web server written in C and easily extendable) that basically just starts up mjpeg-streamer just as the PiCam app current does. mjpeg-streamer provides a URL that the monitor will access. |
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| 13 | The monitor is the standard Ironman Monitor with the addition of a new app: IMCameras. This is based on PiCam but supports selection of which camera to visually monitor. It also supports the following commands issued to selected monitors. |
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| 15 | * Start recording |
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| 16 | * Stop recording |
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| 17 | * Play a recording |
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| 18 | * Live view |
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| 20 | A stretch goal is to allow display of up to four cameras at once. This would work only if omxplayer can be convinced to display only into a subsection of the framebuffer. Alternatively, a "different player with hardware acceleration":https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=199775 might be found, such as "mpv":https://mpv.io/. |