/camera-toolbox-buildroot

Buildroot recipe to build a Camera Toolbox image from scratch for RPI3 (Raspberry PI 3)

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Camera Toolbox Image for Raspberry PI3

This repo contains all necessary config files to build the Camera Toolbox Image for RPI3

Note : the firmware is non-free and has been downloaded from : https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree

To use it:

  • download buildroot-2016.11 and extract it here (https://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot-2016.11.tar.bz2)
  • NOTE : you need about 10go free space on your hard disk for the following
  • run build.sh
  • Go outdoor enjoying the beautiful weather, come back a few hours later
  • create a sd card with the image in $BUILDROOT/output/images/sdcard.img
  • resize the root partition on sdcard to have some space (optional)

The root password is : camera

On boot, the Raspberry PI automatically :

  • Run a SSH Server running on all interfaces and allow root login
  • configure eth0 from dhcp if connected
  • configure WiFi Access Point :
    • SSID: camera
    • WPA2-PSK Passphrase : cameratoolbox
    • DHCP configuration for clients
    • WiFi IP of the Raspberry PI is always : 172.24.1.1
  • start camera-toolbox (liveview is displayed in fullscreen on start)

# Prebuilt image

See https://github.com/rlamarche/camera-toolbox-images