waveform-computing / compoundpi

A project for controlling multiple Pi cameras simultaneously
http://compoundpi.readthedocs.org/
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Errors while capturing and downloading images #60

Open matiasbirrell opened 5 years ago

matiasbirrell commented 5 years ago

Hello, I'm using the client with two raspberry pi 3 and v2 cameras, and ubuntu 16.04.

My goal is to be able to take images at 30 fps for periods of around 3 to 5 minutes at a time, which results in around 6000 images for each camera.

As the images are stored in memory I would think that when the Pi's memory fills up the cpi server will stop responding and errors come up. This happens at around 12 images.

When using a python client I'm able to download images in each iteration but it is much slower and only gets to around 3 fps.

Is this in fact a pi memory issue? Can 30 fps actually be achieved for minutes?

Thanks in advance!