Camera-Modul webserver

AssassinWarlord · May 15, 2016 at 8:20 PM

Hello there, iam new here and a german boy - so sorry for my bad english
I heard something that the openelec engineers are splitted, so thats now a new product is released - the LibreELEC - it is right?

So, i hope i have here more chance that anybode can hear me respectively to make it possible to integrade a feature...

In fact - is it possible to integrade a webserver so that can i connect over web (on LAN) to the LibreELEC and can see a live stream of the connected Raspberry Camera modul? Its for my kids, when he is watching some Cartoons that i can look at him what they are doing...

I hope you can understand me

Best regards

AssassinWarlord · May 16, 2016 at 8:12 PM

For openelec i have found this on github: New Addon - picamera by lrusak · Pull Request #60 · OpenELEC/unofficial-addons · GitHub

But i cant doing anything whit this addon

**lrusak** · May 17, 2016 at 4:05 AM Official Post

Quote from AssassinWarlord

For openelec i have found this on github: New Addon - picamera by lrusak · Pull Request #60 · OpenELEC/unofficial-addons · GitHub

But i cant doing anything whit this addon

The picamera python module is available in the RPI-TOOLS addon in the LibreELEC addon repo.

AssassinWarlord · May 17, 2016 at 6:00 PM

Oh, ok
But can you please tell me, how i can acces the camera with a webserver?

AssassinWarlord · May 24, 2016 at 5:48 PM

So its not possible?

**lrusak** · May 24, 2016 at 6:58 PM Official Post

Quote from AssassinWarlord

Oh, ok
But can you please tell me, how i can acces the camera with a webserver?

Anything is possible, however there is no webserver on LibreELEC and we don't provide any to install.

**vpeter** · May 24, 2016 at 7:09 PM

Quote from AssassinWarlord

how i can acces the camera with a webserver

I don't know for your use case but for webserver you can use my LAMP addon which includes apache web server. It is unofficial addon of course.

AssassinWarlord · May 25, 2016 at 7:22 PM

But tell me lrusak, what can i do with the picamera python modul when it was not possible to steam that what the camera is seeing? only make pictures localy?

Or is it possible to connect to the camera from remote with e.g. VLC player?

vpeter - sounds good but is it there possible with the camera-liveview-webserver?

AssassinWarlord · June 6, 2016 at 6:28 PM

Nothing?

How can i access from remote (e.g. VLC) to the camera? Any ideas?

AssassinWarlord · July 17, 2016 at 1:12 PM

*and up*
When its not possible with the webserver, how can i access the camera from remote?

**nickr** · July 22, 2016 at 12:12 AM Official Post

Googling shows that it is not trivial to setup the pi camera to stream. Docker may help.

**lrusak** · July 22, 2016 at 1:29 AM Official Post

maybe LibreELEC isn't really what you want.

but here are some solutions

RPi-Cam-Web-Interface - eLinux.org
GitHub - silvanmelchior/RPi_Cam_Web_Interface: A web interface for the RPi Cam
Raspberry Pi Nursery Cam – always tinkering

ivanxx · January 13, 2017 at 11:53 PM

HI there,

I'm also interested in this. I'd like to stream a USB or RPi Camera module while not using Kodi (start stream server when kodi is idle, as a security cam). There is this app, it and works pretty well under raspbian. It has very simple requirements ( libjpeg.so.8 and v4l2 ), and I tried to include it in the building process of LE, but got some errors from the compiler that I can't solve by myself. Any chance anyone can make a build including the app mjpg-streamer?

Thanks!

-Iván.

**lrusak** · January 14, 2017 at 2:25 AM Official Post

Docker sounds like a good tool to use here

**nickr** · January 14, 2017 at 3:54 AM Official Post

Sounds like a job for docker.

ivanxx · January 15, 2017 at 1:53 AM

Thanks for the tip. Indeed, there is a docker container for arm that packs mjpg-streamer, but the problem is back to LE when it comes to open /dev/video0. LE does not include the bmc2835-v4l2.ko module, so the device video0 is not created when plugging the USB camera and the container fails to run. I don't know if docker can help here, unless there is a way to include the module in the container and modprobe it, which anyway leads me to compile something inside the LE image, which is what we were trying to avoid by using docker in the first place... :s

ivanxx · January 15, 2017 at 11:32 PM

Well, it looks like it's only the stable LE version the one missing the bcm2835-v4l2.ko driver. I just compiled the LE's HEAD as of today and there it is, I can confirm I'm running kodi krypton with kernel 4.9.1 AND a docker container with mjpg-streamer. Sucking the stream into my zoneminder server is just a no-brainer and now my kitchen's raspberry PI model B is boldly serving both as a kodi frontend for my media and mythtv backend and as a security camera with a Logitech C170 USB camera. Hoorray!. Wish next stable LE includes the bcm2835-v4l2 drivers by defauilt, I'm a bit on the edge here

-Iván.

Thedruid · February 18, 2017 at 9:01 AM

That is exactly what I want to achieve!!

Can you elaborate on how exactly you manage to make it happen?!

Thanks