https://github.com/mosnfar/raspberrypi4-camera-to-cloud
Camera connected to Raspberry Pi enables direct cloud streaming. Repository offers seamless online sharing solution.
https://github.com/mosnfar/raspberrypi4-camera-to-cloud
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Camera connected to Raspberry Pi enables direct cloud streaming. Repository offers seamless online sharing solution.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mosnfar/raspberrypi4-camera-to-cloud
- Owner: mosnfar
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2024-03-18T14:09:48.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-19T01:32:00.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-31T14:17:34.846Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: raspberry-pi, raspberry-pi-4, shell, webcam-capture, webcam-streaming
- Language: Shell
- Homepage: https://forge.mosn.me/stream-raspberry-pi-camera-feed-to-cloud
- Size: 10.5 MB
- Stars: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Raspberry Pi Feed to Cloud
Connecting a camera to a Raspberry Pi through the on-board camera port or USB port can assist in capturing images or videos. This setup can serve various purposes. In this repository, you can find a prebuilt shell script designed to facilitate continuous image streaming to online cloud services such as Google Drive for Linux-operated Raspberry Pi.
## 📋 Use cases
- Online Stream of Camera
- Frame Capture for Time-lapse
- Object Tracking using Cloud
## 🔧 How to use
First, you should install dependencies like 'ffmpeg', 'rclone'. To do it use the command below:
```bash
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg rclone
```
After that, you should configure your cloud service, which here we continue with the Google Drive option.
I suggest to use this two complete tutorials for proper configuration:
- [Google Drive by rclone on Bealdung](https://www.baeldung.com/linux/google-drive-guide#2-rclone)
- [Official rclone Google Drive Document](https://rclone.org/drive/)
But simply to do that start with rclone, you should use the command below and follow the given instructions:
```bash
rclone config
```
Now, You should have a directory on your local device to sync Google Drive with it. Here we create a directory named `/home/user/path/to/`, to do this you can use this command:
```bash
mkdir /home/user/path/to
```
So, Time to **configure a webcam or camera**. Here I'm using a USB webcam but if you want to use the on-board Raspberry Pi camera follow [this link](https://www.codeinsideout.com/blog/pi/set-up-camera/#record-h264-video).
Connect the USB webcam to Raspberry Pi and find the hardware directory which in this example is `/dev/video0`.
Awesome, All essential parts are configured. Now the script is ready for use.
Download the script file to your local machine:
```bash
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mosnfar/raspberrypi4-camera-to-cloud/main/run.sh -o ./run.sh
```
Before using the script you should change some variables in the script to work correctly. Use `nano run.sh` to open text editor then go to 'Configure global variables' section and change the variable.
```bash
...
# Configure global variables
DRIVE_ADD="drive:/parentfolder/subfolder" #rclone given address for drive main folder and subfolder
STORE_DIR="/home/user/path/to/" #Local directory which will link to drive
LOG_DIR="/home/user/path/for/log/" #Directory to store log for command
CAMERA_ADD="/dev/video0" #Hardware directory for Video Input
DAY_OF_STORAGE=2 #Maximum date for storage - e.g. 2 days
MAX_STORAGE_SIZE=200000000 #Maximum size for storage - e.g. 200000000 Byte -> 200 MB
INTERVAL_DELAY=10 #Interval between taking frames - e.g. 10 seconds
MAX_RETRIES=10 #Times to rclone try
...
```
You should change these variables:
**Essential Variables**
Should change this before running this script according to your configuration.
- **DRIVE_ADD**: The address to which you configure Google Drive with rclone command.
- **STORE_DIR**: This directory will be connected to Drive and sync with it.
- **LOG_DIR**: Where you want to store your system script logs and errors.
- **CAMERA_ADD**: Hardware address of video input (webcam|camera) to use.
- **DAY_OF_STORAGE**: By this variable, you can configure how many days should store the content.
- **MAX_STORAGE_SIZE**: This variable manages Drive capacity and prevents extending from Google storage limit.
- **INTERVAL_DELAY**: This is the gap time between taking frames.
**Additional Variables**
If you customize the script more, you can change this too.
- **MAX_RETRIES**: This variable defines how many times should rclone try.
Now everything is done and you should add `run.sh` command to system jobs to be run on every reboot. To do that use this command:
```bash
sudo chmod +x run.sh && (crontab -l ; echo "@reboot /real/path/to/run.sh") | crontab - && crontab -l
```
And its better to reboot your system.
🎉 It's Done. All is ready.
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### Find More
I hope this can help you. You can subscribe to my [yotube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3pFrJCbA9GuHs5uEkexgdw) or support [my blog](https://forge.mosn.me/?source=github-rp4-to-drive) to find out more stuff which help you.
[](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3pFrJCbA9GuHs5uEkexgdw)
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RESOURCES: [Using USB Webcam](https://raspberrypi-guide.github.io/electronics/using-usb-webcams), [Use rclone for Google Drive](https://www.baeldung.com/linux/google-drive-guide#2-rclone), [rclone, Google Drive](https://rclone.org/drive/)