pi-cctv

A simple cctv built with PiCamera & Flask, on Python.

You will need to first install all dependencies first:

$ sudo apt-get install python-picamera
$ sudo pip install Flask

Running pi-cctv

Then you can run the following to boot the server:

$ python app.py

You can run the server in background using screen:

$ screen -dm python app.py

Troubleshooting

If you experience the following error:

* failed to open vchiq instance

You might want try to fix it by execute this:

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/vchiq

I am not sure why I need to do this everytime after boot.

Nginx back-end

You can also run this using nginx:

upstream pi_cam {
  server 127.0.0.1:5000;
  keepalive 4;
}

server {
  root /path/to/project/static;
  autoindex off;
  
  server_name camera.1.armv5.pi;

  location / {
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Connection "";

    proxy_pass http://pi_cam;
    proxy_redirect      off;
    proxy_buffering     off;
    proxy_set_header    Host            $host;
    proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
  }

  location /static {
    alias /path/to/project/static;
  }
}