pypic

Take video with a Raspberry Pi and upload it to cloud storage

Installation

1. $ git clone https://github.com/tstringer/pypic.git
2. $ cd pypic
3. $ sudo pip3 install .

💡 Note: for cloud storage (benefits? Offsite and redundant storage) you must define the environment variables AZSTORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME and AZSTORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY. A common approach is to put these in ~/.bashrc as exports, or if you are going to run this on startup with cron put them in ~/.profile as exports and the cron job would read @reboot . $HOME/.profile && /path/to/pypic -c -d 60 &

Hardware

This has been tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and with a Raspberry Pi Camera (Rev 1.3)

Usage

# list help
$ pypic -h

# capture a continuous loop of video for 10 seconds (default)
$ pypic -c -o /video/output/dir/

# capture a 60 second video
$ pypic -d 60 -o /video/output/dir/

# continuously capture 5 minutes videos
$ pypic -c -d 300 -o /video/output/dir/

# capture and upload to a non-default container name
$ pypic -c -d 300 -o /video/output/dir/ -t mycontainer

Run on startup

It might be a common request to run pypic on startup of a device like a Raspberry Pi (tested with RPi).

1. Run crontab -e
2. Add the following to the end @reboot /path/to/pypic -c -d 60 & (find the path by running which pypic)
3. Save and exit the crontab editor
4. (Optional) Reboot the device

Future

• Rolling storage (at least locally and configurable, as it is running continuously will fill storage)
• Cache for uploading (in the case that there is no internet connection to upload to cloud storage, cache the cloud upload operations until connected)
• Support other cloud storage providers (currently only supports Azure Blob Storage)