Last Updated on September 1, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
I was looking for a good camera for MotionEye in the MotionEye Google Group. This seems to be the best community for MotionEye. Compared to Amcrest or Hikvision the MotionEye software is open soure, but has has lesser features to control cameras.
Now I came accoss the Arducam Raspberry Pi IMX477 Pan Tilt Zoom Camera:
Since it is a Raspberry Pi camera I am convinced it works also with MotionEye.
What is so special about the Arducam Raspberry Pi IMX477 Pan Tilt Zoom Camera?
- It offers a 5 x optical zoom
- It has pan and tilt functionality
- it has infrared night vision support
- only an IR light needs to be added, which should not be too difficult.
The software which is demonstrated in the above video can be downloaded from the ArduCAM GITHUB:
https://github.com/ArduCAM/PTZ-Camera-Controller
- There are some examples which have integrated pan and tilt in the MotionEye software for other cameras.
- There is no example for the Pi IMX477 to use with MotionEye.
- But pan, tilt, zoom and night vision can be controlled by keyboard shortcuts as shown in the above video.
- We can buy the Pi IMX477 from Uctronics in China for 200 USD:
- PiHut offers the camera for £ 57.08:
- And a 2 DoF Full Metal Pan Tilt Kit for Raspberry Pi 4 for £ 66.58
- unfortunately has been discontinued:
- Bu eventually we find a replacement pan and tilt add on.
- There are a lot of those out there for Raspberry Pi.
- This means that the Arducam Raspberry Pi IMX477 is available for around 150 to 300 USD. incl. to Switzerland.
- The Pi IMX477 has features of a high end camera.
- We only have to built it in a fake camera to use it as a case.
- There are a lot of such fake cameras available.
- Both camera and pan and tilt add on can also be found in the Raspberry Pi shop Switzerland.
- The Pi IMX477 is available there for 100 SFR
- and the pan and tilt add on is available there for another around 100 SFR.
- It requires additionally a Raspberry 3 or 4.
- But all the components are on stock at the Raspberry Pi shop in Switzerland.
https://groups.google.com/g/motioneye/c/VOsOVxSB02s
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