Web controlled Raspberry Pi Camera. Rpi-Cam-Web-Interface

Thanks to Nick Barton for the suggestion
RPi-Cam-Web-Interface wins hands down for video streaming and motion detection. Forget MotionEye as you don't get fast FPS. With RPi-Cam-Web-Interface, you can expect 20-30fps even on a pi zero.
Rpi Cam Web Interface website
elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases
Amazon US & other Countries Links
Orico usb hub amzn.to/462DNah
Camera V2.1 amzn.to/46o6wpR
Samsung Bar usb drive amzn.to/45IgMcF
My Pi 4 case amzn.to/3Pkes4t
Raspberry Pi 4 amzn.to/46pb5Av
Mini mouse keyboard amzn.to/3ExMrS3
Mini remote amzn.to/3EAY3ni
Sandisk pro sd card amzn.to/3Pc0AJI
Usb C to C power display cable 100W amzn.to/3qoXsxZ
Kingston a2 64gb amzn.to/33HBrCD
Logik K400+ keyboard amzn.to/3BUiDN5
My capture device Avermedia GC513 amzn.to/3G1LPDQ
Wimaxit 14” Touchscreen amzn.to/3kPDgRl
My Amazon UK store
www.amazon.co.uk/shop/leepspv...
Amazon UK Links
Samsung Bar usb drive amzn.to/3sRqbjI
Raspberry Pi 4 amzn.to/3LeeIAL
pi camera 2.1 amzn.to/46rtfBh
Mini mouse keyboard amzn.to/3LgPn9z
Mini remote amzn.to/3ZbINa0
Usb C to C power display cable 100W amzn.to/3D8GRWV
Kingston 64GB A2 amzn.to/2NTnkPm
Sandisk pro sd card amzn.to/3P5HHIk
Official Raspberry Pi power adapter black amzn.to/3pHyiJj
Crucial 240GB SSD amzn.to/37LLc0V
YCCTEAM Xbox 360 Wireless controller amzn.to/38to6ya
my pi 4 case amzn.to/3ZfFyyv
Logitech K400+ keyboard trackpad amzn.to/3otsF0EOfficial
My capture device Avermedia GC513 amzn.to/2MnbXhW
Wimaxit 14” Touchscreen amzn.to/3sOpDLg
My videos mentioned
YoloCam. AI Camera software for Raspberry Pi.
• YoloCam. AI Camera sof...
How to setup MotionEyeOS. Raspberry pi zero 2W.
• How to setup MotionEye...
8K Media Centre. RK3588S powered StationPC M3
• 8K Media Centre. RK358...
This Laptop with no OS works with everything! Dopesplay DR158W
• This Laptop with no OS...
My Playlists
Everything Raspberry Pi. Over 600 Videos
• Everything Raspberry P...
Raspberry Pi NEWS
• Raspberry Pi NEWS

[@tonylhansen]

I successfully used rip-cam-web-interface with a zeroW. But that was before the new camera interface broke it. I’m glad to hear that it’s been upgraded, sort of, by using the “enable legacy camera” feature in RasPiOS that was eventually added

[@johnwalton5576]

Very cool and informative video, thanks so much for sharing this!

[@mikeburke7028]

Thanks! Can't wait to try this out 😀

[@hiramvillarreal]

Great video, I been testing a RPi W 2 zero as a meteor-cam with the HQ camera and fisheye lens, I been using battery 16850 to powered it, thanks again.

[@ryanwwest]

What's the performance like for RPi W 2 zero for video capture / motion detection? Can it do any more than 1080p@30fps?

[@AerialWaviator]

A very nice find.

[@SB-qm5wg]

This is pretty cool.

[@johng7rwf419]

Many thanks, always enjoy your videos. J

[@leepspvideo]

Many thanks!

[@iSpaceCab]

Another very useful vid Lee 😊👍🏼 Any chance you could try to get it working with the v3 auto focus camera module. I too only found out about this software recently, I’ve been using MotionEyeOS for some time but that doesn’t support the new cameras.

[@jothain]

What was the latency like over wifi? I'm considering using rpi zeo w2 as wifi webcam on battery. I'm mechanic and looking for low as possible latency remote camera as second eye to look into like plc cabinets etc. when working on otherside of machines and like. Obviously resolution needs to be semi decent too to see some details.

[@doughock]

Which OS is everyone using? Buster or Bullseye. It seems from the website it needs to run on 32bit OS. Is this everyones experience?

[@you166mhz]

this was introduced by a local YT user here .... the problem with the "hub setup" -- is that if you are extracting from one disk and placing it to another disk in this hub's setup -- they cancel each other's top MB transfer rate -- all this while on the same USB connector .... this is why I use a different hub and making sure each disk is not interfering each other when transferring data -- from less use (one hub)to a more often used disk (another hub) .... I always get a quick data transfer rate with this setup .... just saying ....

[@cjlowe1650]

I've been using it since 2015 on pi zero w. On pi lite. Runs like a champ. Gonna save the card, use dietpi, put newest version on pizero 2w and use larger SD card since it records on the pi. Have it set to to 5 minute videos and delete oldest when card is 75% full.

[@ParshvaPatel-ib9lm]

can you please make a review video on ornage pi zero 2w its a new release and has 4g ram on zero size form factor

[@DigitalIP]

Props for using a USB C to Micro Adapter! finally someone with some sense

[@bendurandt5587]

I've been using the rpi-cam-web-interface on my ZeroW2 for a while now as a baby monitor. It's been working great for me on WiFi but I set up a static IP for the cam by editing the /etc/dhcpcd.conf file. That enabled me to always use the same IP to access it, which allows me to bookmark the link. When using WIFi the IP of the PI will likely change with every reboot.

[@jairatadia9675]

Hi! How did you manage to set it up using WiFi?

[@-someone-.]

Thanks Lee! I also can’t believe I haven’t heard of this! I’m amazed at the responsiveness.! Looks like all my motion eye are going to be replaced. Did you run htop to see the cpu usage when it was on motion detect? If you get wifi working, there’s gonna be a 5seconds or more delay in capturing. Also quality will drop. I realised this and invested in a switch, and run all my cameras off Ethernet. Definitely worth the time to set up., not to mention security and privacy. Wifi packets can be snooped on, especially cams 👍 Thanks again👍

[@leepspvideo]

👍🏻 I didn’t try htop

[@ryanwwest]

I'm curious about the 5 second delay with wifi - is there not any way to have the Pi itself start capturing before wifi, and then you get the video delayed by 5 seconds but after the fact you can view the video immediately when the pi started capturing and storing to its own cache?

[@aardwolf21]

To use on wifi program the wifi details into rpi imager when you burn the OS to the SD card, same as you normally would. Legacy is definitely the way to go, had constant crashes on bullseye, immediately rock solid with legacy, also had lots of crashes using a zero 2w, solid on a pi4, can't remember if that was on bullseye though. 5G wifi helps loads on the pi4, wired obviously better. Better to run off a hard drive, rather than an SD too as it compresses (boxes) the recordings after they are done so the quicker the filesytem the better,also helps if you have loads of recordings and it's trying to download the thumbnails.

[@mikemingay7430]

This is great, seems so much better than MotionEye which was good apart from the lag etc. I'm planning to use this for a surveillance camera looking at my drive using a Pi Zero 2W with a RPi Night Vision camera. The plan is to have the camera on the wall outside with the Pi inside the garage connected via HDMI cable using a CSI to HDMI Adapter kit which seems to work. On other projects I have used a USB stick or SSD mounted on the Pi to store data rather than the Pi SD card and accessing this data via WIFI using Filezilla or similar. Please can someone tell me how to do similar in conjunction with the RPi-Cam-Web-Interface?

[@limseehong]

Connect the wifi to your router and the wifi should work. I installed Zerotier on top of the OS and I can remote access it outside my LAN.

[@yurkshirelad]

What is the minimal RPi board and camera for setting up a security camera with decent framework at a usable resolution?

[@leepspvideo]

Zero 2w is reasonable. I haven’t tried lower

[@dav2592]

How can i add SSL? so work in https if is possible

[@ndupontnet]

It's pink between it's picking the IR spectrum, no software solution to that, a cheap IR filter will do though

[@abhijeet8316]

Hello there! Thank you for this amazing tutorial, btw is there any way we can hook up audio to the stream as well? I have a USB mic but cant seem to find any way to stream audio along with video...

[@leepspvideo]

I didn’t try. I linked the site in the description. They had very comprehensive documentation

[@mtslyh]

This is the software I always used but the last time I tried it it didn't work with the latest versions of Raspberry Pi OS. The install script threw errors because of compatibility issues with Apache and other packages. Hopefully the July release has fixed all of these problems.

[@neilausten9404]

Same problem. New release didn't rectify

[@bombassbeefjerky9708]

Can I ask a question…. Can you send a signal to turn on a light with the video if motion is detected???

[@leepspvideo]

Probably there’s loads of settings

[@Emrose_Green]

First time user with the raspberry pi, I've been trying to setup my raspberry pi 3 with a camera for a 24/7 camera that connects to a livestream. I am currently having difficulty trying to figure out how to get the camera to turn on, on startup and then connect to a livestream automatically. I also have worries for whenever the wifi goes out that the livestream may disconnect. I assume I need to run a script that tries to reconnect to the livestream if that happens. But I am in the dark here about this stuff.

[@leepspvideo]

There is loads of information on the official page. I haven’t used it much. Also take a look at motionEyeOS How to setup MotionEyeOS. Raspberry pi zero 2W. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5O0q5-sqtCGeNE

[@JackyTran]

Would this work if you turned your pi into a dns server to bypass a router? Essentially I want to use this out in the field without wifi available

[@leepspvideo]

Possibly, loads of info on their website

[@tomaszbazejewski64]

Is there any way to zoom when using the pi camera?

[@leepspvideo]

I haven’t tried recently. The website has loads of information

[@roryglobalactivites4054]

Just set this up instead of motion eye. It’s very cool and more reliable

[@rhodium92]

Have you tried this with a PI 4B and what camera module did u use?

[@hambuger1]

Would love to have a video on orange pi zero 3 android app installs

[@leepspvideo]

Installation Orange Pi zero3. From $17.99 (1GB version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4DXanuImLGJndE Use Aptoide or maybe Google Play store. Should be similar to these Orange Pi 5 videos Orange Pi 5. How to install Android 12 and the Aptoide store. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nanOf3SmfN2ZpZY Android 12 with Google Play Store tutorial. Orange Pi 5 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJPadpVjirObp68

[@user-pf9op9qh2b]

It would be quite useful to add some OS compatibility information. For instance I found the latest Raspberry Pi OS (bookworm) incompatible as it does not support "gpac" package,yet. That is the reason for the installation scrtipt (install.sh) to fail.

[@gravityowns8559]

There is a way to get around that. You have to manually install the latest version of php. From there you can get to the "Start camera system now" message. But that's where things stop. Once you click yes, you get "raspimjpeg: command not found". Since the new version of the os removed it, I dont think this will work.

[@SchoolforHackers]

Thank you for saving me a bunch of time.

[@jbvhkgh5564]

Hi there, whenever I click "Start now" I get this error: "raspimjpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libmmal_core.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". Any guidance would be very appreciated.

[@leepspvideo]

I only used it in this video. Try on their website

[@moucha6247]

I have same problem. How you solve it?

[@RIPlly]

Sadly this can't work with Pi5 and v3 camera 😢

[@Bobcation]

Is the "Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 Wide NoIR, 12MP" also supported?

[@leepspvideo]

They have loads on info on the site

[@Bobcation]

@@leepspvideo Unfortunately I have not found anything. Unfortunately, no stream is displayed on the webspace, only a symbol of a photo icon.

[@An.Individual]

NO. The "Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3" does not support legacy mode and this software only works in legacy mode.

[@igiigiint]

Is it writing to sd card? Can write to some server?

[@leepspvideo]

There are so many features. Link to the wiki in the description

[@An.Individual]

Which is best? this or MotionEyeOS Don't say "it depends"

[@uugh73510]

Does this only work on local internet? Can you view this on LTE or on other internet envs? Thank you.

[@leepspvideo]

Loads of information on their website. Linked in the description

[@thomasvanderhorst4511]

Hi, I am running into an error when I press OK on the configuration options screen. It's the following: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'php7.0-thrift' for regex 'php7.0' Note, selecting 'php7.0-common' for regex 'php7.0' Note, selecting 'php7.0-curl' for regex 'php7.0' Package gpac is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Unable to locate package php7.0-cli E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.0-cli' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.0-cli' E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-php7.0 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libapache2-mod-php7.0' E: Package 'gpac' has no installation candidate What do I do about this?

[@leepspvideo]

Try the docs. I haven’t used it enough to know

[@thomasvanderhorst4511]

I am a complete noob so I’ll try my best. Thanks for your reply though! I am now running into another issue where it says the following. bash: line 1 /usr/bin/raspimjpeg: No such file or directory I have checked and the file is clearly there so I don’t know what to do.

[@top10information5]

install the php " sudo apt install php "

[@barryb4825]

Did you get this to work via wifi?

[@leepspvideo]

I haven’t tried recently. Useful info in the comments

[@willgilliam9053]

your web server prob not listening to the wlan

[@SmithyScotland]

That pi noir camera looked fake. Pi originals have rounded corners, fiducials, pi logo etc

[@leepspvideo]

Images here raspi.tv/2016/new-and-old-raspberry-pi-camera-comparison-shots-1-3-2-1-noir

[@Gregmero]

🔌🍕🥧