Raspberry Pi Camera Setup - Motion detected movie creation (obsolete)
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This article describes the setup of the Raspberry Pi Camera with motion to take pictures on [1]motion.
Setup
Get package list
apt-get update
Update all packages
apt-get upgrade
Enable the camera
raspi-config
Then answer the following stupid questions ("really enable?" and "reboot now?"), and you're done.
Configuration
Now we've set up drivers, we need to verknuspel[2] the Raspi Cam with motion. That is a bit tricky, since motion does not support the Raspi Cam. But it supports webcams. So we need to convert our Raspi Cam into a webcam.
Make the Pi take pictures
Since /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ is the default CGI-directory...
- make sure, everyone can access the camera device[3]:
chmod o+rwx /dev/vchiq
- create a folder named webcam:
cd /usr/lib/cgi-gbin mkdir webcam chown pi webcam
- create this script named webcam.cgi::
#!/bin/bash echo "Content-type: image/jpeg" echo raspistill --nopreview -o - -w 1024 -h 768 # no timeout, since images will be to dark and are noisy #raspistill --nopreview -o - -t 1 -w 1024 -h 768 #raspistill -t 0 -w 1024 -h 768 -o -
- Make it executable
chmod +x webcam.cgi
Check if it works
http://YOUR_PI_S_IPA/cgi-bin/webcam/webcam.cgi
Get motion to check 'em
Install motion
apt-get install motion
Configure motion
Edit /etc/motion/motion.conf:
netcam_url http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/webcam/webcam.cgi
and
target_dir /var/www/webcam-archive
- Links
- Footnotes:
- ↑ guess what! :)
- ↑ yes, I just coined the term. I hope it will make it! More about verknuspel!
- ↑ including web users