4 ms·

I think the PineCube by the Pine64 folks could be the WRT54G of IP cameras: interesting hardware, cheap and open, but it needs further development and is curren

• scottlamb 4y ago
  I have one sitting on my desk. I admire the idea, but the PineCube is crap in several ways: * The sensor isn't that good to begin with. Too small. * The SoC is iirc end-of-lifed by the manufacturer and limited in terms of H.264 encoding (low-res/low-fps), even with good drivers, which it doesn't have (yet?). No NPU for on-camera ML-based analytics. * No real-time clock (although you could add one via I2C). * I don't think they've gotten the community interest they were hoping for, probably in part because of the problems above (and, circularly, this is part of why the driver situation is not good). * This is a dev board. It's not ruggedized. And given the above, I don't think a productionized version will happen. I think you can get closer with a Pi Zero 2 W and HQ camera module, but I don't have any suggestions for ruggedization, autofocus, or toggling an IR cut filter, which are must-have properties for most applications.