raspberry pi camera support

[leighjohnson1976]

Hello,
Have you considered adding support for the raspberry pi camera? I have managed to install uv4l webserver alongside mariner3d on a pi zero w and they seem to happily coexist so I can use mariner3d to monitor the printer status and the uv4l webserver page to view a stream of the camera to see what the printer is up to. Would be great to have it all incorporated in one webpage though

[daxliniere]

Hi @leighjohnson1976,
I'm actually working on a solution for this at the moment. Well, I'm working on a Node-RED flow to control a bunch of things, and one of the things (at the bottom of my list) is to add a camera to the Pi-Zero and get it to send me a photo when the print has completed.
Believe it or not, this is actually quite trivial to achieve.
I'll be sharing the NR flow when I've got it finished.

Cheers,
Dax.

[drashna]

I'd be a fan of this, but I found that it causes the Pi to become unstable, after a while.

[doucettom]

Using a pi 3A+ should take care of this. mjpg-streamer or ustreamer will maxout a single core unit.

[luizribeiro]

Hey, there are two feature requests for this already: #206 for streaming and #243 for doing timelapses.

These are probably not going to be part of mariner. However, we plan on adding support for plugins, at which point these functionalities could be added easily.