Steve, I have been successfully using a version 1 <https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/camera-module/> Raspberry Pi camera as a web cam on a Pi model B for a few years now. These parts live within a cheap ebay fake security camera. Eventually I plan to close up the camera, weather proof it and mount it outside. Heat will be a problem in the summer time.
<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2VC-PQO73lw/WJiW3tUyj9I/AAAAAAAAEgE/HSN1tvXKoZQ2AvsQRhpernkQsI2osrGuwCLcB/s1600/20170206_112410.png> The Pi is also a gateway for weather data coming from a remote station to weewx. It handles the two loads just fine. Typical CPU load is under 10%. I am using mmal_motion to capture motion seen by the camera. The captured images are written to a remote file system mounted via samba, to reduce wear and tear on the Pi's SD card. I have worn out one SD card. It lasted a little over a year. So I should put more effort in to reducing writes to the file system. On Sunday, 5 February 2017 22:13:59 UTC-4, Steve Dulmes wrote: > > Hello, > My Acurite 5in1 is working well reporting to the Weather Underground > through my RPi 3. I have the Pi connected to the weather station base with > a USB cable. Does the Pi have enough power to handle a webcam hooked up > through the Pi's wifi? Any suggestions for a good, reasonably prices wifi > webcam? > Thanks for the help, > Steve D. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
