Hey. I’ve got a Rasberry Pi 3 and a Pi Camera 3 set up here, pointed at my front door. I installed the latest Ras Pi OS on the computer and I tested that with the built-in ‘raspi-vid’ app and it’s working now. I want to self-host something so I can access the live video from my phone to see who’s knocking on my door.

I don’t want to store the video, or do anything else fancy. Just be able to see the video, in a browser, from inside my local network.

I wonder if I could code this up pretty quickly myself, in fact but have no experience with this sort of thing. Is there an app to make this easy or something I could add to the PI to give it a webbish front-end?

Thanks for any ideas

  • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I used MotionEye at one point to monitor my laundry using a RPi nano and a USB webcam. Pretty sure it just ended up with a web interface I could pull up on phone or computer on the local network.

    The old washer liked to lie about how long was left in the cycle and was in the basement while my computer was upstairs.

    • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve heard of people using a shake sensor or a power monitoring outlet/switch which seems like it would take a lot less effort to integrate into automations (like showing a light when it is done somewhere).

  • taiidan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not answering your question, BUT I went with POE IP camera in the end. They one I got form Amazon has an IR blaster and filter so it can see in black and white at night. No good Open-source HW options for that as far as I’m aware. Access via an RTSP on VLC or MPV. I use motion to access web streams and motion detection