Please continue to post your results. Particularly which hardware you
choose. I'm interested in doing the same with my own skin.

As a side note, I'm playing around with Grafana to see what advantages it
has compared to the standard graphs. It was easy to install on my raspberry
pi and fairly easy to hook up to the SQLite DB.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 3:24 PM Eric K <[email protected]> wrote:

> I also want to check out your perl scripts, @mwall!
>
> On Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 5:18:33 PM UTC-5 Eric K wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the responses.
>>
>> Shortly after posting this I got a couple of the ESP32-CAM modules and
>> loaded Tasmota firmware into them.
>> see:  https://cgomesu.com/blog/Esp32cam-tasmota-webcam-server/
>> You have to use the specific Tasmota32 webcam firmware:
>> tasmota32-webcam.bin
>> <http://ota.tasmota.com/tasmota32/release/tasmota32-webcam.bin>
>> The maximum resolution of these is only 1600x1200.
>> The upside is that you can easily grab a single frame using a simple URL
>> command:  http://192.168.8.122/snapshot.jpg
>> The only downsides I see:  with the plastic lens and jpeg compression,
>> the images are not great for fine detail.
>>
>> Given the low cost, small size, MIPI camera interface, and wifi
>> capability of the RPi Zero W board, I reconsidered an RPi camera.
>> I'm currently assembling a RPi Zero camera with a 5mp camera module.
>> I am getting single images out of it with the raspistill application:
>> raspistill -v -o /home/pi/Pictures/pi-cam-test.jpg
>>
>> I'd like to grab an image every 5-10 minutes and have the current image
>> show up in the Belchertown weewx page.
>> I'd also like to create a daily time lapse movie like others have done.
>> I recall seeing some webcam script examples in this weewx-user group to
>> do these 2 things.
>> I need to search for them again.
>> On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 4:29:31 PM UTC-5 mwall wrote:
>>
>>> sorry, here is the link to the root level of the ispy database:
>>>
>>> https://www.ispyconnect.com/cameras
>>>
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