XLCam - Prusa XL Raspberry Pi Camera
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Update 2024/04/27: Published XLCam v2. Better viewing angle and new mounting location.Update 2024/04/02: Added link to screw assortment.Update 2024/27/02: Added info for adjusting the camera aim.Update 2024/29/01: Added links for USB-C right angle and long camera cable. Noted 4GB capacity used on RPi 4.PrintingSTLs are provided for left and right mounting. I printed in PETG, Black, Orange, White. Orient the model on the flat surface in PrusaSlicer then paint supports on the lower edges of the camera shroud. Set supports for enforcers only.AssemblyThe Raspberry Pi 4 (I used a 4GB) and camera V2 are held in place with a couple of screws each. You'll need a longer ribbon cable for the camera and a right angle USB-C adapter for the power cord. The USB-C cable and ethernet cables can be routed down the slot in the aluminum extrusion. An STL is provided for a Chanel cover that snaps in place.USB-C right angleLong camera cableScrew AssortmentA single 4mm screw and a T-nut are used to hold the case in place.The camera module and Pi are attached with small screws (see link to screw assortment above; super handy for all sorts of projects).You can add one or more washers behind the camera module on one or two of the posts to adjust the aim of the camera to your liking.SoftwareI have my Pi set up to serve a video stream locally and also to upload snapshot images to PrusaConnect every 20 seconds. You can use any Pi software you like, the instructions for my setup are below:Start with an image of the lite version of the latest RPi OS; I used Bookworm 64-bit. Set the host name; I used “xlcamera”. Set a user name and password.Boot up the Pi and SSH into it at xlcamera.local.Check Cameralibcamera-helloIncrease GPU memorysudo nano /boot/config.txtadd the following line:gpu_mem=256Get Packagessudo apt updatesudo apt install gitsudo apt-get install imagemagickInstall Streamer - https://github.com/ayufan/camera-streamergit clone https://github.com/ayufan-research/camera-streamer.git --recursivesudo apt-get -y install libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libcamera-dev liblivemedia-dev v4l-utils pkg-config xxd build-essential cmake libssl-devcd camera-streamer/nano html/camera.html<html> <head> <title>XLCam</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> </head> <body style="margin: 0; padding:0;"> <div> <img id="stream" src="./?action=stream" style="width: 100vw; height: 100vh; object-fit: contain; object-position: 50% 0%;" /> </div> </body> </html>nano cmd/camera-streamer/http.cadd:extern unsigned char html_camera_html[];extern unsigned int html_camera_html_len;and { "GET", "/camera", http_content, "text/html", html_camera_html, 0, &html_camera_html_len },Buildmakesudo make install Set up servicenano service/camera-streamer-printercam.service; Official Raspberry Pi v2.1 8MP camera based on the Sony IMX219 chip ; https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/camera-module-v2/ ; [Unit] Description=camera-streamer web camera for Pi Camera on Raspberry PI After=network.target ; v2 camera ConditionPathExists=/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/imx219/10-0010/video4linux [Service] User=root ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/camera-streamer \ --camera-path=/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx219@10 \ --camera-type=libcamera \ --camera-format=YUYV \ ; camera module v2 --camera-width=1640 --camera-height=1232 \ ; use full height for all streams --camera-snapshot.height=1232 \ --camera-video.height=1232 \ --camera-stream.height=1232 \ --camera-fps=15 \ ; use two memory buffers to optimise usage --camera-nbufs=2 \ ; bump brightness slightly --camera-options=brightness=0.1 \ --camera-options=sharpness=9 \ --camera-options=noisereductionmode=HighQuality \ --http-listen=0.0.0.0 \ --http-port=80 \ --rtsp-port DynamicUser=yes SupplementaryGroups=video i2c Restart=always RestartSec=10 Nice=10 IOSchedulingClass=idle IOSchedulingPriority=7 CPUWeight=20 AllowedCPUs=1-2 MemoryMax=250M [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.targetStart Servicesudo systemctl enable $PWD/service/camera-streamer-printercam.servicesudo systemctl start camera-streamer-printercamsudo systemctl stop camera-streamer-printercamStatusjournalctl -xef -u camera-streamer-printercam tmp as ramdisksudo nano /etc/fstabadd:tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,noatime,nodev,size=256M,mode=1777 0 0RebootLive stream should now be available at:xlcamera.local/camera Prusa Connectnano uploadsnapshots.shFingerprint: This is a unique string identifying the camera. An example would be:a606dbc84f08373703b8eb6c4d7805b1fd687c45Change 10 of the digits in that string to other random digits and you should be good.Token: Sign in to Prusa Connect, go to the Camera page for the printer, then add a new Other camera. Use the token that's shown in the script below.-------------------- #!/bin/bash # Set default values for environment variables : "${HTTP_URL:=https://webcam.connect.prusa3d.com/c/snapshot}" : "${DELAY_SECONDS:=20}" : "${LONG_DELAY_SECONDS:=60}" FINGERPRINT="???" TOKEN="???" SNAPSHOTURL="http://127.0.0.1/snapshot" sleep "5" while true; do now=$(date) # grab from streamer curl -s "$SNAPSHOTURL" -o /tmp/output.jpg # If no error, upload it. if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # echo "$now: Uploading snapshot..." datestr=$(date) convert /tmp/output.jpg -quality 85 -filter lanczos -resize 800 -pointsize 18 -fill white -undercolor '#00000080' -gravity southwest -annotate +10+10 "${datestr}" /tmp/annotated.jpg # POST the image to the HTTP URL using curl curl -X PUT "$HTTP_URL" \ -H "accept: */*" \ -H "content-type: image/jpg" \ -H "fingerprint: $FINGERPRINT" \ -H "token: $TOKEN" \ --data-binary "@/tmp/annotated.jpg" \ -s \ --compressed # Reset delay to the normal value DELAY=$DELAY_SECONDS else echo "$now: Snapshot returned an error. Retrying after ${LONG_DELAY_SECONDS}s..." # Set delay to the longer value DELAY=$LONG_DELAY_SECONDS fi sleep "$DELAY" donePermissionsMake file executablechmod +x uploadsnapshots.shcrontab -efill in your <user>@reboot /home/<user>/uploadsnapshots.sh >> /home/<user>/snapshots.log 2>&1Create log file:echo > snapshots.logReboot and everything should be good to go.
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