Thanks, Bill. I am not tech savvy enough to understand everything you said, but it sounds like it should work for me. I appreciate your time in answering this. I will check out eBay and see what they have.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Bill Morrow <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/weewx-user/77sA-OgSGK4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Steve Dulmes Hingham, WI -- 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.
