RaspiMJPEG as a service

Install raspimjpeg

• Most recent fork as of writing: https://github.com/nickolas360/raspimjpeg

• clone repo

• build: make sudo make install

• raspimjpeg binary should now be in /usr/local/bin

• copy raspimjpeg.config to /etc

• copy prepareRaspimjpeg to /usr/local/bin

• copy camraspimjpeg.service to /etc/systemd/system

• sudo systemctl daemon-reload

• sudo systemctl enable camraspimjpeg.service

• sudo systemctl start camraspimjpeg.service

• with values from config as in this repo, images should now be written in /dev/shm (ramdisk)

Using images

You can install mjpeg-streamer with the input_file plugin to use the written images and publish them as a mjpeg stream, so you can use the raspberry-pi as a regular webcam

Addendum

There now exists a fork of the mjpg-streamer with a plugin to read directly from the Raspberry Pi camera. So raspimjpeg is not necessary anymore. For more info See: https://github.com/marrem/raspi-mjpg-streamer