Beginners • Re: A replacement for MotionEyeOS?

OK, it may not suit you. I run it everyday for all daylight hours monitoring a squirrel feeder.

Maybe you need to define your exact requirements

• If the camera is to be used standalone, a WebUI. While I'm no stranger to command line, I'd rather avoid logging into the terminal-cd to correct directory-check if files were generated, if yes fire up the FTP client-download the files-finally view files to find out it was a false alarm (most likely). It simply doesn't make any sense to me to do a visual task through the CLI.
• No further processing required (the reason why @rpdom 's method doesn't suit me - too many devices (Pi2B, NAS, Pi5, PC) and points of failure),
• Cold-resistant (a must!). It's currently -7 and the Pi Zero took about 5 minutes to reboot and even if it succeeded, didn't start the camera module. I'll have to go out in the cold, take it off its stand, heat it, then restart it and hang it again and fiddle again to get the right angle, and hope for about a day or two of footage.
• 720p@15fps is a bare minimum. Pigeons fly fast and I'd like to be able to differentiate them when they land. The V2 Camera module claims to be 1080p@30fps capable, though I'm guessing this was a tad over-optimistic on what is essentially a Pi B+ CPU.
• Hardware-encoded media files that are actually playable (minimizing CPU overhead)
• Auto-erase past files if disk space becomes too tight. No point in a crashed camera because it wouldn't even accept an SSH login due to 0 byte left
• FTP or SMB access to retrieve the files. Auto-FTP upload is nice but not strictly necessary if network share is reliable.

I set up the first camera outside to watch hedgehogs eating food I left out for them each night. Now the hedgehogs are asleep I see some birds and field mice eating the bird food.

You mean food originally left for the hedgehogs?

The first camera has been in use for a couple of years, the second for about three months.

Is the first one outside? How do you heat up the enclosure? How often do you have to attend the camera?

Statistics: Posted by Cubytus — Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:45 pm

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