The Poor Man Online Webcam Server using FreeBSD ;)

Spartrekus

Spartrekus

Title: The Poor Man Online Webcam Server using FreeBSD ;)
Goal: How to run a Webcam using apache2 http on Freebsd?
Installation time: 15 min
Difficulty: Low


!= What to do first?
Buy a raspberry, install FreeBSD
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry Pi
Bring into crontab a way to make it reachable from the net.
Here a cool DynDNS alternative: https://freedns.afraid.org/
wget will make sure that the url of your webcam is available.

!= Get the scripts for the webcam
Recommended webcam here would be a tpilink.
A tpilink is cheap and of excellent quality. It runs Linux, and tplink gives you access to your webcam ;)
Tpilink is really Free Mind and they do not lock you like Android, MS,...
https://github.com/spartrekus/raspberry-webcam-webstreamer
It may of course work with any other webcam with different settings.

!= Webcam on Apache
(1) Install apache2 on FreeBSD (or alternatively Linux if you haven't other choice). (2) Install "screen". (3) Run the bash within screen, and make sure to check permissions for wget to operate. (3) On any browser, you can see the page.html which will be refreshed each 5 seconds.

Your location of web server is /var/www/html/...

!= Webpage
The html file page.html will be refreshed every 5 seconds.

Done in 15 minutes.
 
Lamia said:
Thanks Spartrekus for the outline.
If you can provide the granular details, that would be appreciated.

Webcam access is one of the features I am exploring here - https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/access-usd-drive-on-another-pc-as-dev-cuau0.65779/

I know that my choice package has its way of doing it though. Your idea needs to be evaluated, since I am looking for a custom solution.
Click to expand...

Your git URL says it all. You need not rewrite it unless you have some new thoughts to add.
 
I developed this a while ago for a local museum so people could log into model tanks and stream data from the cameras.
https://github.com/osen/tstream
You might find it useful.

It uses opencv to get data from the webcam but then uses nothing more than normal websockets to host and stream on a web page. It uses websockets so that a stream connection can be set up and can get a good framerate over a decent connection.

Basically no dependencies other than opencv and it compiles to a single executable so you don't need to run a separate web server etc..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top