Hey. I’ve got a Rasberry Pi 3 and a Pi Camera 3 set up here, pointed at my front door. I installed the latest Ras Pi OS on the computer and I tested that with the built-in ‘raspi-vid’ app and it’s working now. I want to self-host something so I can access the live video from my phone to see who’s knocking on my door.

I don’t want to store the video, or do anything else fancy. Just be able to see the video, in a browser, from inside my local network.

I wonder if I could code this up pretty quickly myself, in fact but have no experience with this sort of thing. Is there an app to make this easy or something I could add to the PI to give it a webbish front-end?

Thanks for any ideas

  • taiidan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Not answering your question, BUT I went with POE IP camera in the end. They one I got form Amazon has an IR blaster and filter so it can see in black and white at night. No good Open-source HW options for that as far as I’m aware. Access via an RTSP on VLC or MPV. I use motion to access web streams and motion detection