Closed Therealjosephchrzempiec closed 2 years ago
Brickabrak
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4 years ago The only thing I can think of is you can change the player command. (Line 117 of /usr/bin/displaycameras) and add "--alpha xxx" to the line before the >/dev/null part. Without that argument, all video is at 255 alpha, or full opacity. You can lower this value to make videos transparent, and if you have a desktop behind them it could be seen better.
Anonymousdog
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4 years ago This package is intended for standalone RPis that do one thing: display video streams. That's explicitly in the README.MD file. It is outside project scope to support interactive use of the RPi.
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The only thing I can think of is you can change the player command. (Line 117 of /usr/bin/displaycameras) and add "--alpha xxx" to the line before the >/dev/null part. Without that argument, all video is at 255 alpha, or full opacity. You can lower this value to make videos transparent, and if you have a desktop behind them it could be seen better.
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Therealjosephchrzempiec
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4 years ago The problem I'm facing is that even if i put the cameras in smaller screens they still ontop of any application i run on the raspberry pi. I just need the cameras to be behind everything.
Joseph
Anonymousdog
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4 years ago Correct. That is the intent. It is not made for an RPi used interactively or performing other tasks (especially video display tasks).
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The problem I'm facing is that even if i put the cameras in smaller screens they still ontop of any application i run on the raspberry pi. I just need the cameras to be behind everything.
Joseph
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Therealjosephchrzempiec
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4 years ago Understandable thank you. What I'm trying to do is design my own home automation setup at my house displaying my office cameras and home cameras plus some temperature sensors. Sense I only have a 4 camera's i was trying to do some overlaying on them. Or maybe a button or two for rebooting the pi or shutdown. But this is a good start thank you.
Anonymousdog
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4 years ago Answers would probably involve display layers (as alluded to earlier).
Andy
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Understandable thank you. What I'm trying to do is design my own home automation setup at my house displaying my office cameras and home cameras plus some temperature sensors. Sense I only have a 4 camera's i was trying to do some overlaying on them. Or maybe a button or two for rebooting the pi or shutdown. But this is a good start thank you.
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horsesNhalo
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2 years ago I'm about a year late but I just wanted to add since I've been at this for hours and figured it might help someone down the line. I use my pi for other purposes but when I'm not using I want to have displaycameras going. When it's fullscreen I can't control without SSH and I ain't doin that. So I have it setup now where I can stop and start the service, but also I set my background to white, removed all Icons and lowered the taskbar size, and using what Brickabrat mentioned set --alpha 128 in that player line right before the --timeout. Important note if you do this, there's 2 of these lines, and you'll need to set alpha in both or it won't work when you reboot.
Hello is it possible to run the cameras behind the apps that i run on the raspberry pi? So say i need to reboot and i push the start menu button i can not see the menu because the camera are on top of everything. I did move the cameras down so the menu bar is showing. But i can not see any part of the menu it goes behind the cameras.
joseph