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Setting up: Raspberry Pi 3 W with USB Webcam (Local not Resin.io)

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Alex Lennon edited this page Sep 28, 2018 · 5 revisions

List of needed components

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi 3 W

This is the wireless variant. You can use the wired only variant but may need to add a supported wifi dongle [TBD]

  • Logitech C270 HD webcam.

You can use an alternative webcam but to date this is the only test and known working webcam [TBD]

  • Fisheye lense [optional, TBD]

We are currently evaluating the 180 degree lense from ModMyPi here

Software

  • Raspbian Image
  • GStreamer

Procedure

Raspbian setup

Download the latest Raspbian image from here

  • Follow the instructions to write the image to a uSD card and boot the RPi from this card.
  • Go through the configuration setup and connect to your local Wifi network
  • Run sudo rasp-config and choose Interfacing Options to enable the SSH server (useful if you want to continue setup with remote access). Login is pi with password raspberry unless you changed it during initial setup.

GStreamer 1.0 setup

Either continue in a local command shell or open a shell, obtain the IP address with ifconfig and use an SSH client (ssh on Linux or putty on Windows) to connect to the IP address. Login is pi with password raspberry unless you changed it during initial setup.

To install needed gstreamer1.0 dependencies run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install

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