Welcome to pootlecam’s documentation!

Pootlecam is a python program to use a Raspberry Pi camera that can do various camera related things such as live streaming, video recording, movement detection and more. It exploits the Raspberry Pi’s camera integration with the GPU to enable all this to run well even on a Raspberry Pi Zero. It makes extensive use of the picamera python module, and much of the camera related code is based on examples from that module.

This is the user documentation, it is for anyone that wants to use pootlecam without delving into the python that makes it all work.

Contents:

• Installation and first setup
  • Setup using the script
  • check the camera
  • Preparing to run
  • Test running
  • Power saving
• The main screen
  • system summary and control
  • The Camera Status
  • Live View
  • Tabbed panels
• Camera tab
• live stream tab
  • displaying the live stream in other web pages
  • live stream fields
• cpu move tab
  • Overall detection process
  • cpu move fields
• gpio detect
  • gpio move fields
• tripped video
  • tripped video fields
• Common tab fields
  • state
  • stream resolution
  • started at
  • stopped at
• Mask editing
• Power savings
  • Turn off hdmi
  • Turn off the camera LED
  • Turn off activity LED -Pi ZERO ONLY!
  • Convert USB port to USB1.1