raspicam-flow is a set of Node-RED flows that make it easy to drive the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera module from a web browser.
A friend lent me a telescope and I really wanted to try it out with my Raspberry Pi HQ Camera module. Unfortunately there didn't seem to be a lot of options for long exposure web-based interfaces for the Pi HQ Camera... so I threw this together.
Some notes:
- This is rough around the edges.
- It has only been configured and tested with the HQ Camera module.
- Only some flags from the raspistill utility are exposed.
- Video recording functionality hasn't been "implemented".
- ISO isn't exposed because ISO conflicts with analog and digital gain flags.
- The flow uses raspistill directly (os exec with read from stdout).
You'll need to install Node-RED, either in the host OS or via Docker. If you go the docker route you'll need to follow various guides to allow camera access from within the container.
Once Node-RED is installed, add the following external packages:
- node-red-dashboard
- node-red-node-base64
You'll also need to add the following configuration to settings.js:
contextStorage: {
default: "file",
memoryOnly: { module: 'memory' },
file: { module: 'localfilesystem' },
},
The above configuration makes the default context storage persistent via disk. This is used for dashboard/UI settings. It also adds a second context store which is memory-only (volatile). The memoryOnly store is used for caching JPEGs.
Browser View (eg. http://10.0.0.86/ui)
