Raspberry Pi Coop Automation

[Alagirl]

one more question: What type of webcam do you use if any?
Hubby just bought a camera to put in the coop and has been enjoying their antics so far, but that is wifi and phone based.

 

[jthornton]

one more question: What type of webcam do you use if any?
Hubby just bought a camera to put in the coop and has been enjoying their antics so far, but that is wifi and phone based.

I use POE IP cameras except for one USB camera in the nest box. I use this program to view 6 IP cameras at once on any Linux PC I have on my LAN. The program needs to run on a Debian like Linux PC that is Debian 10 or later. I tried it on a Raspberry Pi 4B but it used up all the memory and the kernel shut it down.


JT

 

[Alagirl]

Interesting. I do have an old laptop I can convert to Linux.

 

[jthornton]

Debian 10 https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/debian-installer/ depending on if your laptop is 32 bit or 64 bit you would use i386 or amd64.

JT