Pi Builder
Tips and tricks for the Pi Builder software; see more at https://github.com/publiclab/pi-builder
Using Pi Builder, you can download a premade SD card image to use your Pi as a WiFi streaming camera, a timelapse camera, an Infragram camera, and much more!
Read the introductory blog post here
Pi Builder is used in the following projects:
Connecting
Once you assemble and plug in your Pi with the provided SD card (or flash your own from one of the recipes here):
- wait 3-5 minutes for it to start up
- connect to the
00-PiCamera
wifi network with passwordpubliclab
- wait for the popup prompt, or use
Click to log in to this network
, or if nothing happens, go to http://pi.local (NOThttps
, sorry!) and you'll see the welcome page.
If this doesn't work, please post a question below!
Video quality
The streaming video you see in the web interfaces is not the highest quality available; to change it, click Camera settings
at the http://pi.local/cam/
page, and change the Wi
value to something higher like 1024
. It can in theory go as high as 1980
, but I think streaming at high framerates at this resolution is probably tough for your Pi.
New recipes
To create a new recipe on Pi Builder, see the GitHub repository (and readme file) here:
https://github.com/publiclab/pi-builder
There you can look at proposed recipes, open an issue, or start developing your own recipe by opening a pull request, which will begin auto-building your image each time you push a commit.
Questions
Title | Author | Updated | Likes | Comments |
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Getting problem with Pi-builder image | @nipam_bhavsar | about 5 years ago | 0 | 3 |
What are easy and fast ways to get files off a Raspberry Pi? | @warren | over 5 years ago | 1 | 3 |
How can I download pi-builder SD card image with the WIFI network for camera access, Infragram and Image Sequencer? | @molangmuir10 | over 5 years ago | 1 | 7 |
ID and Password Request after Image Load | @joquendo | over 5 years ago | 0 | 3 |
Activities
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