• Re: OT: PI Zero as CCTV cam

    From nev young@3:770/3 to Jan Novak on Tue Mar 23 11:46:18 2021
    On 23/03/2021 06:15, Jan Novak wrote:
    Am 21.03.21 um 00:40 schrieb nev young:
    I have 10 Pi zeros working 24/7 as CCTV cameras.

    Hi,

    can you describe your Hardware and OS / daemon from that project?


    Yes.

    As at Mar 2021 they are:
    # PiHardware, Camera, SD
    1 Pi zero W, LifeCam HD-3000, 32Gb
    2 Pi zero W, LifeCam Cinema, 32Gb
    3 Pi zero W, LifeCam HD-3000, 32Gb
    4 Pi zero, Pi NOIR cam, 32Gb
    5 Pi zero W, LifeCam HD-3000, 32Gb
    6 Pi zero W, LifeCam Cinema, 32Gb
    7 Pi zero W, LifeCam HD-3000, 32Gb
    8 Pi zero W, Pi NOIR cam, 32Gb
    9 Pi zero W, GEMBIRD 8Gb
    10 Pi zero, PiHut ZeroCam 32Gb

    All running headless latest Raspbian Lite GNU/Linux 10 (buster) O/S and
    motion 4.1.1 capture software. I run apt to update/upgrade once a month.
    Each camera runs a cron job to purge old images every night and a cron
    job rsyncs the image directories to a pi file server overnight over wifi.

    Cameras 4 & 8 run using IR lights.

    You may get more from http://www.nevilley.org.uk/cameras/cameras.php
    although this needs updating. There have been changes since Dec 2019
    mainly re-locating webcams and rebuilding the SD cards with Rasbian
    Buster (from stretch) in Aug 2020. Most of the SDs were replaced as I
    just burned a batch of new ones and then changed them en-masse. I bought
    20 32Gb SanDisk Ultra microSDHD UHS-1 cards off Amazon.

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