Make you own Raspberry Pi Camera Stream

Create your own live stream from a Raspberry Pi using the Pi camera module. Build your own applications from here.

How it works

The Pi streams the output of the camera module over the web via Flask. Devices connected to the same network would be able to access the camera stream via

<raspberry_pi_ip:5000> 

Screenshots

Pi Setup	Pi - Live Stream

Preconditions

• Raspberry Pi 4, 2GB is recommended for optimal performance. However you can use a Pi 3 or older, you may see a increase in latency.
• Raspberry Pi 4 Camera Module or Pi HQ Camera Module (Newer version)
• Python 3 recommended.

Library dependencies

Install the following dependencies to create camera stream.

bash sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install libjasper-dev
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4 
sudo apt-get install libqt4-test
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev
pip3 install flask
pip3 install numpy
pip3 install opencv-contrib-python
pip3 install imutils

pip3 install opencv-python

Step 1 – Cloning Raspberry Pi Camera Stream

Open up terminal and clone the Camera Stream repo:

bash cd /home/pi
git clone https://github.com/EbenKouao/pi-camera-stream-flask.git

Step 2 – Launch Web Stream

Note: Creating an Autostart of the main.py script is recommended to keep the stream running on bootup.

sudo python3 /home/pi/[]/main.py

Download Beta image of Raspberry Pi Camera Stream

Any troubles installing, try out the already compiled Raspberry Pi (Raspbian OS) Image of Raspberry Pi Camera Stream.