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silvanmelchior / RPi_Cam_Web_Interface

A web interface for the RPi Cam
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Help: Installation RPi_Cam_Web_Interface #655

Open julianzorro99 opened 2 years ago

julianzorro99 commented 2 years ago

Good morning, I am installing this software but I have several doubts, not if they could help me with them please:

  1. If when installing it I only want to turn on the streaming service when I want, that is to say not to be automatic, I give you the option not at the time of turning on the raspberry pi, but now I do not know how to turn on the web server with which file to turn on the streamig?
  2. why is there a file called "Do not use RPi_Cam_Web_Interface_Installer.sh" I do not understand the proposition of this arcivo what does this file mean?
roberttidey commented 2 years ago
  1. There is an option not to start automatically when raspberry boots. (autostart = no). If you already have installed with autostart yes then just rerun install and choose no. To start the software manually run the ./start.sh script. Similarly the ./stop.sh will stop it. The web server will always be running in the background but has little impact if streaming is not used. Note that if you leave autostart = yes then you can stop and start the camera from the web interface. When stopped the camera can be used by other software and the background raspimjpeg process has very little impact on the system with the camera stopped.
  2. The script starting with Do not use is an old install script contributed by a user. I was reluctant to delete this but I want to discourage its use as it is significantly out of date now. The correct method to install is to use the ./install.sh method as described in the wiki.
darrensapalo commented 2 years ago

Adding to (2), the meta information about the shell script's relevance is also visible on @roberttidey 's commit message for that file:

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