https://github.com/danielearwicker/picam

A very low-tech thing for taking/storing pictures from usb cameras
https://github.com/danielearwicker/picam

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A very low-tech thing for taking/storing pictures from usb cameras

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danielearwicker/picam
• Owner: danielearwicker
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-07-21T18:04:00.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-12-30T11:29:55.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-06T23:34:19.512Z (8 months ago)
• Language: TypeScript
• Size: 234 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# PiCam

A very low-tech thing for taking/storing pictures from usb cameras

The server and client parts are largely separate projects.

Currently it assumes you have a USB camera plugged into your Pi and so it has the device name:

    /dev/video0

The UI currently sucks.

## Prerequisites

You need Node on your Pi and [this is a very thorough guide](http://thisdavej.com/beginners-guide-to-installing-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi/) to get you to that point.

I prefer Raspian Lite to leave as much space as possible for images. Get a good (Samsung) 128 GB 

micro SD card. Put Raspian Lite on it, boot it up and run `raspi-config`. Change the `pi` password

and switch on SSH. Finally get Wifi working by editing this config file:

    sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

And add:

    network={

            ssid="YourNetworkName"

            psk="YourPassword"

    }

If you need the IP address of your Pi, run `ifconfig` and look at the `wlan0` section of the output.

You also need ffmpeg. Again [this guide is very simple](https://github.com/tgogos/rpi_ffmpeg) - you can

basically paste that script into a file and run it.

## Client

In `client`, do:

    npm install

    npx webpack

(If you have an old version of Node, you'll need to `npm install -g npx`.)

The server statically servers the client bundle.

## Server

In `server`, do:

    npm install

    npx tsc

Now you can fire up the server temporarily with:

    node built/server/index.js

And look at `http://:3030`.

To get it running properly (i.e. as a daemon that starts automatically) 

use [forever-service](https://github.com/zapty/forever-service):

    sudo npm install -g forever

    sudo npm install -g forever-service

    cd built/server

    sudo forever-service install PiCam --script index.js

You can now start it with:

    sudo service PiCam start

Or just restart your Pi.