Greetings to the forum , my name is martin aka Rg500rider , I am a total newbie when it comes to programming etc so please excuse any really stupid questions i come up with, sort of understand hardware quite well as you can guess I ride bikes yes the ones with engines, I have spent many years on the road with bands and tinker and repair stuff , but code well that’s just voodoo and i am looking for some pointers.
My first problem is I am trying to make a little spy cam for our yard, i have a pi w 2 , I have manage to get motioneye on it and its talking to my mac quite happy , i have the 120 deg cam but i cannot get anything from the cam , i have tried to to get pi os to find it but zero nada nothing , i am now stumped , power is from a std usb port, 32gb card with trixe to try and find it , but i have an 8 gig card with motioneye for Pi W / but it only seems to want to run the pi 3 download from the motioneye site, so drowning a bit here and hoping not to be left to the sharks , cheers martin
A few questions to clarify things.
Is it a Pi 2 B, or Pi Zero 2 W?
Is the camera a USB web Cam or does it attach to the Pi via the CSI cable connector?
I have several Moition Eye OS survalence cameras scattered about the house. Mostly Pi 4B’s and 3B’s. The moition Eye OS downloads and Pi model specific. The pi3 image won’t run / boot up on a Pi 4 or 2 etc. Or a Pi Zero 2 for that matter.
For the Pi Zero2 you need this custom image. Release 20211113 · jawsper/motioneyeos
It’s labeled pi3 which is confusing, but a Pi Zero 2 is very simalar to a Pi 3, SOC wise. I have tried it and it did work. It’s Streaming Video performance wasn’t as good as I had hoped for and I eventually went back to a 3B+. Most of my cameras are the Raspberry Pi Official V2. And one Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera with a Telephoto lens on it.
The one big PITA with Motion Eye OS is the deveolper stoped suport for it, and nobody steped up to take over. Plus, any time you post a thread on their forum you have to answer 50 questions to just start it. =(
That being said, I haven’t found a replacement that does what I want done. I have three Pimoroni Pan Tilt Hat setups. I stream the live video to my Desktop PC. My main use to keep an eye on my dog when she is out on her rope. I also record birds at my feeder.
Anyway, hopefully you get it up and running and have some fun.
Adding sound to the mix is way up there on my wish list. From the sound of things, (pun inteneded =) ) that’s not so easy, at least with Montion Eye OS.
To make my life easier, as I have multiple setups all running 24/7. I set static IP addresses. It makes it a lot easier to find the camera I want. And in Edge, I take it one step further and pin each one as an App.
I’ll be looking for your other thread so as to tag along there too. ;)
@bablokb Disclaimer, I haven’t hunted around recently. It hasn’t been a long while, but it has been a while since I looked for a replacement.
The big one for me is Stream the video feed over the LAN side of my network. No having to go to the Internet (WAN) and back, or having to go to an Internet Site just to view it. No subscription (even free) etc.
Rasbberry Pi / Pi Camera supported as a host device.
Pan Tilt Hat support. This is a bit of a PITA to setup in Moition Eye OS, but it does work. I have scripts that automate this so its no so painful as the first time around.
It is probably not the only solution and I think I remembered that the PiCamera2 software does support streaming as well, but I am not up to date on this.