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FirePiCam: Raspberry Pi camera library (libfirepicam.so)

Function

Based on raspistill, FirePiCam is a Rasperry Pi software library used in FireFuse.

• Build FirePiCam

Future Improvements

FirePiCam takes an 800x200 still picture every 600ms (1.7FPS). It is possible to get higher FPS rates with programs such as UV4L. These programs are based on video capture, specifically H.264. Video capture is faster because the RaspiCam sends less information per frame over that flat gray cable to the Raspberry Pi. Going the video route will get you about 4-5 FPS or even more. However, FirePiCam provides a good, stable building block that can be improved later as the dust settles on all the Raspberry PI video stuff.

See Also

• Build FireFuse