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Requirements

Hardware

Physical host or virtual machine or container:

  • probably something like Raspberry Pi Zero W at least, can be without camera
  • more cameras usually requires more compute power

Camera such as:

  • most of USB cameras if they work under Linux
  • esphome cameras using esp32_camera_web_server with snapshot module
  • esphome cameras using esp32_camera_web_server with stream module using ffmpeg
  • probably any camera if using ffmpeg

Software

Linux operating system. Debian based preferred, for example Raspberry Pi OS Lite if you run Raspberry Pi. I use also laptop with Ubuntu 22.04, but I believe with minor tweaks it should work on most distributions (mainly package names are different).

Below list uses Debian package names.

Generic system packages

  • bash 5.x (what year is it?)
  • git (just to install scripts from this repo)
  • curl
  • iputils-ping
  • uuid-runtime to make generation of camera fingerprint easier

Optional packages

  • v4l-utils - to detect camera capabilities
  • libcamera0 - for Rpi CSI cameras
  • libraspberrypi-bin or rpicam-apps-lite for Rpi CSI cameras (should be already installed on Rpi OS)
  • fswebcam - for generic USB cameras
  • ffmpeg - for custom commands for capturing remote streams
  • you-name-it - for custom commands beyond my imagination