radioactivemouse / picam

A server that allows a raspberry pi camera to be controlled with an HTTP API

picam

A server that allows a raspberry pi camera to be controlled with an HTTP API and an admin GUI. It can also be run as a docker container.

The server takes a picture every X seconds and also allows you to take a picture on demand and configure the options. You can currently only access one photo at a time.

API

take a picture = $ curl -X POST http://picam/photo

get the picture = $ curl http://picam/photo.jpg

get camera options = $ curl http://picam/camera

set camera options = $ curl -X PUT http://picam/camera -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{}'

note: you can optionally pass camera options when taking a picture, for example:

$ curl -X POST http://picam/photo -d '{}'

GUI

Go to http://picam/admin for the admin GUI that allows you to take a picture, view a picture, and change the camera options

Docker

To build and deploy the docker image...

$ docker build -t jritsema/rpi-picam:1.1.1 .
$ docker tag -f x jritsema/rpi-picam:latest
$ docker push jritsema/rpi-picam:1.1.1
$ docker push jritsema/rpi-picam:latest

Fresh pi setup

• flash sd card using hypriot's os that comes with docker preinstalled

• attach raspberry pi camera

• boot

• optionally change passwd, and host name from black-pearl and enable wifi in $ nano /boot/occidentalis.txt

• enable the camera in $ sudo nano /boot/config.txt and add the following lines

start_x=1
disable_camera_led=1
gpu_mem=128

• reboot the pi

• setup docker hub credentials using $ docker login

• start the container

docker run -it --rm -p 80:9000 --device /dev/vchiq --name picam jritsema/rpi-picam