Telraam / Telraam-RPi

The scripts that run on the Telraam Raspberry Pi computers, responsible for connecting to the local wifi, traffic monitoring and communicating with the central Telraam servers.
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Camera upside-down #27

Open harleyday opened 3 years ago

harleyday commented 3 years ago

I recently put together a Telraam councter using an old Raspberry Pi Zero W, and have taped it to the window to test for a week before bothering to make a more permanent housing. The easiest way to arrange it for me was to have the ribbon cable coming out of the bottom side of the camera board (so the image appears upside-down for your software). Will this affect the counting?

I suppose my question might lead to the suggestion that you include a stage in your setup allowing the user to rotate the image by 180 degrees as appropriate (which it might require for weird setups like mine).

In any case, I'll build a proper case when I have time, and rotate the camera to the expected orientation.

poolsztynsku commented 1 year ago

@harleyday Hello. Is your project still active? How it is possible to know more about your setup on RPi Zero W? Did you rotate the camera in the end? Greetings.

harleyday commented 1 year ago

Hi. No I took it down in the end, sorry. On a more positive note, my local council put up a traffic counter at the end of my road so the traffic is now being counted by professional kit.

poolsztynsku commented 1 year ago

@harleyday Thanks for swift answer. Good news for your local community. In your opinion - does RPi Zero W is suitable enough for this job or you have been dissatisfied with the results HW-wise? RPi's are available again to purchase, just wondering if it is worth a try or go recommended RPi 3 specs. Thanks.

harleyday commented 1 year ago

From what I could tell, the rpizero setup was working perfectly well other than being upside down. Only thing to bear in mind is the rpizero W (version 1) has a weaker WiFi antenna than the larger raspberry pis so make a note about placing it in a region with strong WiFi signal. The version 2 zeros might be better, but I haven't tested it.

poolsztynsku commented 1 year ago

@harleyday Thanks. I've got RPi Zero W bundle and unfortunately now have some issues with stable WiFi/Telraam server connection. Hacking in progress as this seems to be known issue...

redmond2742 commented 1 year ago

Any updates on making this work with a RPi Zero W? Were you able to use the image provided in this repo or did you work through the install script manualy from raspberry pi OS?