Raspberry Pi Camera

The Raspberry Pi Camera project was created to create low-cost streaming cameras that may be used with Blue Iris software for home security monitoring.

  • Project Status: In-Progress (Working on camera stability)
  • Started (Year): 2024
  • Last Updated (Year): 2024

Blog Posts

Updated Raspberry Pi Camera Wi-Fi Monitor Script

My Raspberry Pi cameras have been running well for a while now, but I’ve had one camera that seems to be having issues. I did have some issues earlier with two camera and believe it was due to using cheap Micro Center SD cards and having the Wi-Fi monitoring script write to the card every…

Raspberry Pi Camera Solution

After looking at the stability issue with MediaMTX, Raspberry Pi Camera Module with Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and Blue Iris, I have uncovered what looks like a simple fix. I was doing some searching on my issue with the Pi Cameras and found a post with the rpiCameraBitrate set to 1,500,000 rather than 5,000,000,…

Raspberry Pi Camera Status

I’ve been seeing that the Raspberry Pi Cameras are going offline quite often and it is quite annoying. I’ve done a few things in an attempt to improve the reliability of the cameras but have not been able to come up with a winning solution yet. If I was only having issues with the cameras…

Raspberry Pi Camera and Blue Iris

I wanted to look at replacing some ESP32-CAM cameras that I have in my windows with some Raspberry Pi Cameras. My hope is that I can get better quality and potentially have some usable video at night. I looked at several options but none seem to be satisfactory but the most promising was the open…