Gladly. I’ll collate a few bits later - time for work.
Comment on Cams, anyone?
grue@lemmy.world 4 months agoTell me more about your homebrew esp32 cams, please!
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Comment on Cams, anyone?
grue@lemmy.world 4 months agoTell me more about your homebrew esp32 cams, please!
Gladly. I’ll collate a few bits later - time for work.
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Ok so the combination is:
And the finished item:
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All assembled, they will give a decent enough feed back to frigate for the basics, just don’t expect miracles in the resolution or framerate departments. 3fps does fine for my use case of tracking critters.
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Neat, thanks!
I’m not thrilled about the camera quality (compared to a purpose-built surveillance cam with 4k and good low-light performance) and I wish it had PoE, but damn, can’t beat that price!
(Side note: does anybody else find it weird that PoE is so uncommon and/or adds so much to the cost of these IoT dev boards? I get that normal people don’t want the hassle of running cable, but it feels like the hole in the market is bigger than it should be.)
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
It would definitely be a size thing for adding Ethernet (PoE or otherwise) to small boards like these. The ones I am using are already bigger than they ought to be - the bottom half is just a glorified serial interface and power input for USB. The esp plugs into this through pin/header. If I were less lazy, they could be about half the thickness in a final product. no PoE I suppose also keeps them cheap, which is always good for me. The casings were my first ‘proper’ design and entry into resin printing.
The Tapo kit I have found to be a good balance of price, features and quality. I have a Tapo C310 mounted outdoors at another building, which has done great in all weathers. Initial setup does require the app/service last time I checked, but it can be made to serve RTSP locally after that. Very good for the ~£30 price point.