The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

badrobot said:

Oh wait, I screwed up. This video is not the guide. It's just the guide I used to test the camera. I'll get back to you with the actual guide.

No rush, take your time. I'm taking a break from it for now anyway. I just swapped my Motion Eye SD card back in for now.

alphanumeric said:

No rush, take your time. I'm taking a break from it for now anyway. I just swapped my Motion Eye SD card back in for now.

Ok. I am at work right now and I do have link of the guide I used on my desktop at home. Will send it to you later then.

badrobot said:

Ok. I am at work right now and I do have link of the guide I used on my desktop at home. Will send it to you later then.

I had a feeling you might be at work. Thats why I said no rush, take your time.

alphanumeric said:

I had a feeling you might be at work. Thats why I said no rush, take your time.

Here's the link. It's for both USB and Pi Camera.

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-webcam-server/

Loving this app.
You can do anything headless with just a Raspbian OS. Music, internet radio, photos, videos and probably more. When I turn on my bluetooth speaker, my Pi Cam-Clock project automatically connects to it. I just hit a button and it sends a command line... and my music plays.... mp3 or internet radio.

badrobot said:

Here's the link. It's for both USB and Pi Camera.

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-webcam-server/

Great, thanks. Will likely have a go latter on today some time.

Got some Pi tinkering done today. Mounted my Unicorn Hat HD to my Black Hat Hacker, < it was just sitting in a box doing nothing. Figured I should put it to some use. I may be a while getting my code to work on the Unicorn Hat HD so I figured I better setup a nice test setup. Hooked it up to a spare Pi Zero W via a ribbon cable. Then did one more test and let it run all the way through. I'm pretty sure I don't have any dead LED's so thats good. It is a bit hard to tell though to be honest. The one pattern they don't do is lite it up all one color? If it went all Red, then all Green then all Blue a dead LED would be real easy to spot. I think I'm good though. First bit of code I do will be to do the all Red > Green > Blue. Won't be today though.

Then I moved on to my new Ledshim. I soldered a male header on the backside, thats going to eventually solder to a Pico Hat Hacker board. I don't have one at the moment, the Ledshim was an unexpected freebe. Anyway, that let me use female jumpers to hook it up to the GPIO on another spare Pi Zero W. Tested OK so thats good. I can store it away until I order a Pico Hat Hacker board. I'm going to mount it vertically on my indoor weather clock. The same way I did my other Ledshim on my portable weather clock. This one will be a Barometric Pressure display though. Thats the plan anyway. It doesn't make much sense displaying the temp on my indoor weather clock. It will just sit there at 22c all winter lol. Displaying the pressure will get be a quick glance storm warning display.

I'm out on my deck and its looking like it might rain so I think I'm going to pack it in and move inside. My gazebo isn't 100% water proof. Cloth roof that can get small pinholes in it where the stitching gets tugged in windy conditions. I use it more to get out of the sun. Anyway thats all for now.

Remote desktop connection on phone is also super responsive....

Looks like I'll be stuck in the house today rainy crappy outside. I may have another go at some this once my wife gets up. Just going to relax and enjoy my morning coffee for now. Thanks for all the info badrobot.
My step daughter reminded me she gave us her old smart phone, we were going to do the prepaid thing and keep it for emergencies. Have to figure out what I did with it and where I put it. It should be usable over my WIFI.

This is the camera lens adjustment tool that came with my Version 2 camera, Lens Adjustment Tool for Raspberry Pi Camera ID: 3518 - $0.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique fun DIY electronics and kits Just FYI.