RPi-webcom-collector

collect webcams in local area

Installation

install all needed packages to prepare the software environtent of your Raspberry Pi:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install python3-pip git ffmpeg
sudo pip3 install getmac

and this tool itself:

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/Starwhooper/RPi-webcam-collector
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/camimages

First configurtion

sudo chmod +x /opt/RPi-webcam-collector/collect.py
sudo cp /opt/RPi-webcam-collector/config.json.example /opt/RPi-webcam-collector/config.json
sudo nano /opt/RPi-webcam-collector/config.json

Start

Its also able to add it in cron via sudo crontab -e, it prevent doublicate starts

/opt/RPi-webcam-collector

Update

If you already use it, feel free to update with

cd /opt/RPi-webcam-collector
sudo git pull origin main