Pi - Parrot Cam
Tuesday 22nd January 2013
OK I have been about tinkering with Pi's & Linux just been lazy about blogging and busy with work & family. One Pi Project I have been desperate to do is "Pi-Parrot-Cam" or a wireless streaming web cam to spy on the bird feeder, hardly ground breaking I know but hey its what I want to do .... looks like someone has beat my to it ... thanks for doing the hard work and I shall shamefully plagerise and report back.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rasp...-Camera-Solar/
Friday 25th January 2103
Hey it works, well at least the motion stuff does, there was only one little typo in the explanation:
Wednesday 30th January 2103
Left for another trip and pointed the cam out of my grubby office window, set up the port forwarding on the home router and yey .... we have a picture! The quality is rank but that's more to do with the crummy web cam and my dirty windows so the next phase is a better web cam and move it so it can see the bird table :-)
Monday 4th February 2103
Back on the road again but a good weekend, project "Parrot Cam" now has its own Pi (old Rev 1 board, 256MB ram), micro wifi adaptor and a "no name special" web cam stuck to the widow running Raspbian and Motion and apart from the fact the resolution is desperately poor its all working good ... great view of the bird feeder from up here in Edinburgh ... er ok it would be if it was not dark and the resolution was not so crap ... theory De Jour about that is an issue with the Pi & USB throughput, see the article in Pi Land here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...278227#p278227
OK I have been about tinkering with Pi's & Linux just been lazy about blogging and busy with work & family. One Pi Project I have been desperate to do is "Pi-Parrot-Cam" or a wireless streaming web cam to spy on the bird feeder, hardly ground breaking I know but hey its what I want to do .... looks like someone has beat my to it ... thanks for doing the hard work and I shall shamefully plagerise and report back.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rasp...-Camera-Solar/
Friday 25th January 2103
Hey it works, well at least the motion stuff does, there was only one little typo in the explanation:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo services motion startThink we can forgive that for all the assistance given ;-) now I need to get the Pi outside, solar powered and aimed at the bird feeder :-)
sudo: services: command not found
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo service motion start
Wednesday 30th January 2103
Left for another trip and pointed the cam out of my grubby office window, set up the port forwarding on the home router and yey .... we have a picture! The quality is rank but that's more to do with the crummy web cam and my dirty windows so the next phase is a better web cam and move it so it can see the bird table :-)
Monday 4th February 2103
Back on the road again but a good weekend, project "Parrot Cam" now has its own Pi (old Rev 1 board, 256MB ram), micro wifi adaptor and a "no name special" web cam stuck to the widow running Raspbian and Motion and apart from the fact the resolution is desperately poor its all working good ... great view of the bird feeder from up here in Edinburgh ... er ok it would be if it was not dark and the resolution was not so crap ... theory De Jour about that is an issue with the Pi & USB throughput, see the article in Pi Land here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/vi...278227#p278227
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