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This project needs no soldering. Just buy one of the cheap ESP32-CAM boards (includes CPU and the camera). Install and run my software and then view your camera on your security software of choice (or VLC).
- Acquire the camera (others should work also, see the github repo for a list. The cheapest I've found is $8).
- Install PlatformIO.
- Download this git repo and cd into it.
- cp src/wifikeys_template.h src/wifikeys.h - and then edit wifikeys.h with your network info.
- Run "pio run -t upload" (This PlatformIO command will fetch dependencies, build the project and install it on the board via USB)
Done! Now your camera should happily be serving up a video stream either to your web browser or a standard RTSP video client (like VLC):
See device URL in the title bar.
More details are included in the git repo in case you want to reuse this library elsewhere. Any feedback happily accepted.
Kevin Hester
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I'm an embedded systems engineer / generalist who likes to make fun things. I've worked at various Silicon Valley places ;-)
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