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--- software:zoneminder:picamera [2021/06/02 16:03] – created rodolico
+++ software:zoneminder:picamera [2021/06/06 01:34] (current) – rodolico
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 ====== Raspberry Pi Camera on ZoneMinder ======
+I spent a lot of time trying to find some good software to run on a Raspberry Pi to turn it into a camera. Even tried to write my own using Perl, but all the libraries are in Python, so it took too much for a simple project.
+I found the v4l2rtspserver (https://github.com/mpromonet/v4l2rtspserver) and decided to try it. The author has a good page, but assumes I knew how to configure ZoneMinder (which was mistaken).
+Anyway, no GUI needed, so I did the Raspberry Pi OS Lite (https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems/) and set it up, then did the following. Ended up with a pretty decent camera that is not "phoning home" with all your images.
+===== Configure Raspberry Pi =====
+  - Enable wlan by adding the following to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf<code bash>country=US
+network={
+   ssid="your ssid"
+   psk="your psk"
+}</code>
+  - Enable camera interface<code bash>
+raspi-config
+# go to Interface, and enable camera
+</code>
+  - Verify camera works<code bash>
+raspistill -v -o test.jpg
+</code>
 ===== Install v4l2rtspserver on camera =====
 <code bash>
+# get pre-req's
+apt -y install cmake liblog4cpp5-dev libv4l-dev git
 git clone https://github.com/mpromonet/v4l2rtspserver
 cd v4l2rtspserver