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I have a pair of Pi Zero Ws set up as timelapse cameras that I keep in the garden - Cucumber vines and flowers opening is pretty interesting at 1 frame per minu

I have a pair of Pi Zero Ws set up as timelapse cameras that I keep in the garden - Cucumber vines and flowers opening is pretty interesting at 1 frame per minute I recently did a project with a pair of RPi 3b+ and cellular modems as construction cameras. I set up RetroPie on a 3b+, but it wasn't enough for the N64 games my wife and I wanted to play the 4 could change that Currently my security cameras are recorded using Orchid VMS on an Odroid XU4 ( Cloudshell with 2x 4T SATA) Its a great little tool for learning Bash, and groking your systems - testing portability? - without invoking AWS resources.

jwong_ 7y ago
What do you use for the camera? I have some plants I'd like to monitor but the cameras I'd use always ended up dying due to the heat.
- cameron_b 7y ago
  one is the latest Pi camera, I also got one of the m12 mount cameras that use the same interface. I have a wide angle lens that has some distortion, but its a nice look for some things. I use a little box that I glued a tripod mount to, keeps the rain out.
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jsilence 7y ago
What is your take on the cloudshell? Genuinely curious.
- cameron_b 7y ago
  Its a great little box. I have 2 or three cameras recording 24x7, a large chuck of the spinners is a Samba share, and Webmin tells me that I'm usually at 10-20% cpu and 25% memory. I've got an SSD connected to USB also, and it really makes the spinners feel slow ( WD Red Pros ) but that's mostly because they spend a lot of time idle and the first access is delayed. Of course it isn't perfect. It holds on to dust a bit too well, and it isn't super easy to connect another USB device once you get it all dressed in place. I don't use the screen. I did at first, but I'm not black-belt level at managing HDMI devices and it doesn't present as much value as the light pollution it causes. The RockPro64 would probably best it in most tests, but I already had the Cloudshell. I have dreams of incorporating it into an all-ARM Linux domain classroom.

jwong_ 7y ago

What do you use for the camera? I have some plants I'd like to monitor but the cameras I'd use always ended up dying due to the heat.

cameron_b 7y ago
one is the latest Pi camera, I also got one of the m12 mount cameras that use the same interface. I have a wide angle lens that has some distortion, but its a nice look for some things. I use a little box that I glued a tripod mount to, keeps the rain out.

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jsilence 7y ago

What is your take on the cloudshell? Genuinely curious.

cameron_b 7y ago
Its a great little box. I have 2 or three cameras recording 24x7, a large chuck of the spinners is a Samba share, and Webmin tells me that I'm usually at 10-20% cpu and 25% memory. I've got an SSD connected to USB also, and it really makes the spinners feel slow ( WD Red Pros ) but that's mostly because they spend a lot of time idle and the first access is delayed. Of course it isn't perfect. It holds on to dust a bit too well, and it isn't super easy to connect another USB device once you get it all dressed in place. I don't use the screen. I did at first, but I'm not black-belt level at managing HDMI devices and it doesn't present as much value as the light pollution it causes. The RockPro64 would probably best it in most tests, but I already had the Cloudshell. I have dreams of incorporating it into an all-ARM Linux domain classroom.