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My Raspberry pi camera module script

Scenario:

Raspberry pi B
Camera Module
Wifi Dongle

Goal:

Stream the video from raspberry pi Camera module nonstop in local network even after a reboot of the raspberry pi.

1. Camera module setup
2. Wifi dongle setup
3. Official V4L2 driver setup
4. Installed VLC

   • sudo apt-get install vlc

5. Created script to lunch streaming combined V4L2 + cvlc
   • sudo nano myscript.sh
   • #!/bin/bashsudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2cvlc v4l2:///dev/video0 –v4l2-width 1920 –v4l2-height 1080 –v4l2-chroma h264 –sout ‘#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=0.0.0.0:50000}’
   • sudo chmod +x myscript.sh
6. Installed screen – creates a hidden terminal session
   • sudo apt-get install screen
7. Adding the script to crontab so by booting / rebooting the script is lunched
   1. crontab -e
   2. @reboot /usr/bin/screen -S test -d -m /bin/bash /scripts/myscript.sh &
8. Access the stream via VLC by using the IP address of the raspberry pi for example: http://192.168.1.101:50000
9. Enjoy the stream