Camera

Surveillance

December 16, 2013
Tutorials, Raspberry-Pi
RaspberryPi, Camera

Raspberry Pi Surveillance #

One of the hobby projects:

  • Keep on capturing pictures in a loop, compare current picture with last picture, if the difference in pixel is more than threshold, capture a high resolution image, save it to RAM disk (so that memory card is safe from frequent read write operations), rename the image using date and time; e-mail it with date in subject field.
  • Run a cron job to delete temporary files older than 20 minutes.
  • Run the script as service and use another to monitor the service, on failure restart the service.

Python script to detect motion #

(To Do: add git link for the code here))