trancen Posted January 6, 2015 Share #1 Posted January 6, 2015 I'm somewhat a new user to XPE running on a N54L. I needed to setup a camera to catch who's been letting their dog do it's business without cleaning up and not wanting to buy a IP Camera. Having a few USB Webcams. I tried to use that only to find that the security app in Synology doesn't support native USB. Tried the USB Addons to trick into making the USB Camera look like a IP. None of it worked. So I looked for another solution. I began thinking if there was away to do it via hardware and decided to see what I could do with the good old hacker's delight "Raspberry PI" Didn't take me long to find this project called MotionPIE. It's basically like the security application that comes with the Synology. But I didn't want to use it's functionality but the stream it provided. I tried a few other methods and distro's that said they could turn the webcam into a 'ip camera' none of them seemed to work for me, and just decided on using MotionPie https://github.com/ccrisan/motionPie/releases (using 20150102 release) https://www.squirrelhosting.co.uk/hosting-blog/hosting-blog-info.php?id=94 This setup works like a dream for now. This way I'm not limited to where the NAS is located and the length of the USB wire and not having to buy a IP Camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htpcdude Posted January 7, 2015 Share #2 Posted January 7, 2015 So MotionPie is the only thing running on your Raspberry Pi. Did you look into installing motion on top of Raspbian (Debian Wheezy)? This would allow the Raspberry Pi to do other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancen Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted January 7, 2015 I tried to manually install it. But was having some issues and didn't want to spend the time trying to figure it out. I just wanted to have something up and running quick. I wasn't using the PI for anything else at the time so I was ok just to have it do that one thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htpcdude Posted January 8, 2015 Share #4 Posted January 8, 2015 I got motion working on mine. I was wondering what web cam you are using and what resolution/framerate you are using. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trancen Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share #5 Posted January 8, 2015 I only have tried an 7-8 yr old Logitech, and the one I'm using now is a cheap Chinese made one with 640x480. I have set the framerate to 30fps, but it seems more like 5-7fps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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