Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

Camera setup for the web interface

You will encounter some issues even after following the instructions to the tee. We have included references that we used to fix the problem at the end of this chapter.

In this section, we will set up the camera to stream to a browser. The first step is installing the motion package:

    sudo apt-get install motion

Once the package is installed, the following configuration changes need to be applied:

1. Edit the following parameters in /etc/motion/motion.conf:

       daemon on       threshold 99999       framerate 90       stream_maxrate 100       stream_localhost off

2. Include the following parameter in /etc/default/motion:

       start_motion_daemon=yes

3. Edit /etc/init.d/motion as follows:

       start)       if check_daemon_enabled ; then if ! [ -d ...