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doorbell-camera-pi

Progressive Open-Source SASS solution for small and large businesses working in WEB!!1!1

Credits to: https://github.com/garyexplains

Prerequisites:

  • 1x RaspberryPi3/4 (or any other computer e.g. your old ass laptop)
  • 1x Any camera (I use AOKIN)
  • 1x Wifi male-male cable (but you can use Wifi it's up to you)

Actually the whole script and a web-server is nothing serious, also it does not require to install any side packages - pure Python only. But depending on your configuration (hardware, software, wlan, etc) there might be some minor inconvenients.

Enough talking let's working!

Preparation:

You have to enable your camera in settings, so

  1. sudo raspi-config
  2. Interface Options -> Legacy Camera -> Enable

Also enable VNC protocol in the same menu

  1. sudo raspi-config
  2. Interface Options -> VNC -> Enable

Now you can check that your camera is connected and visible to pi:

vcgencmd get_camera

If everything is fine you should see something like that: supported=1 detected=1, libcamera interfaces=0

Also, you may check, that your camera is actually taking pictures:

raspistill -o img1.jpg

The image will be stored in /home/pi/

You can download this picture via scp from your computer

scp pi@pi.local:/home/pi/img1.jpg .

Where pi - username, pi.local - raspberrypi ip address, . - your current dir

Run the website:

python3 /home/pi/video-stream/main.py

You may pass these step, but if you want your website work after rebooting - don't miss it.

  1. Add this line right to the bottom of the file /home/pi/.profile
sudo pkill -f "python3" #kill another python process 
sudo python3 /home/pi/video-stream/main.py #run the app/server
  1. Just to be sure that our above code is working
sudo reboot now
  1. You are done.

Now if you reboot or unplug your pi - it will restart the website by itself.

Few images of how it is working (Yes I know it's ugly as hell!).

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