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Having actually set up multiple webcams on a rpi (2 each on 2 pis, costs the same as one drop cam), the most surprising thing is the power consumption. Either u
by plasticchris 11y ago
Having actually set up multiple webcams on a rpi (2 each on 2 pis, costs the same as one drop cam), the most surprising thing is the power consumption. Either use a powered hub or settle for slow rates/low res. It's hard to find, as the cameras just stop working. Unless you know where to look there are no cues as to what went wrong on raspbian. That and many of the command line tools to upload to gdrive are broken by lack of maintenance, iirc the go tool gdrive was the only one that worked for me.
- _neil 11y agoThanks for posting this. I built something similar using a single camera. It runs decently at first and seems to slow down over time. I'll give a powered hub a try.
- arrty88 11y agoIt sounds like you may have a memory leak. Check the output of top on the pi after things start to get slow.
- zionsrogue 11y agoI personally didn't run into any issues with power consumption or slowing down. I've let this setup run for multiple days at a time when I'm on vacation and use it to monitor my apartment. Overall, it works well (but can obviously be improved).
- CaptSpify 11y agoAlso, if your using wifi, that just exacerbates the problem. My camera would work without my wifi, and my wifi would work without the camera. Replaced the power-cable, and all was well.
- PostThisTooFast 11y agoyou + are = you're