• A Raspberry Pi (preferably a 2 or 3). My experience with the built-in wifi of the RP 3 is that is works better than the Realtek or WiPi dongles.
• A Raspberry Pi camera (I have used the v1)
• Optionally a case like: https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/camera/camera-cases/nwazet-pi-camera-box-bundle-case,-lens-and-wall-mount-b-plus

• Raspbian
• MJPG-streamer built with raspicam support: https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer
• Some support files found in this repo

• connect and configure Raspberry Pi camera board. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/camera/README.md
• check that raspivid can record video from the camera.

• clone repo: https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer

git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer.git

• cd into source dir cd mjpg-streamer
• Build (see also https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer):
  • cd mjpg-streamer-experimental
  • make
  • sudo make install

In the same directory (mjpg-streamer-experimental)

sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/mjpg-streamer
sudo cp -R www /usr/local/share/mjpg-streamer/

In the same directory (mjpg-streamer-experimental)

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/mjpg-streamer
sudo cp *.so /usr/local/lib/mjpg-streamer

• clone this repository
• cd raspi-mjpg-streamer
• copy the ld config file

sudo cp mjpg-streamer-ld.conf /etc/ld.so.conf.d/mjpg-streamer.conf

• re-scan dynamic libraries

sudo ldconfig

If your path includes /usr/local/bin (in which mjpg-streamer will have been installed by the default build process), then check if you can succesfully run:

mjpg_streamer -o "output_http.so -w /usr/local/share/mjpg-streamer/www" -i "input_raspicam.so -fps 10 --width 1024 --height 576"

If you test this as user pi, user pi should be part of group video

Create a user, e.g. user webcam and add it to group video.

sudo adduser webcam
sudo adduser webcam video

Copy the service and default files from this repo to the right system directories.

sudo cp cammjpgstreamer.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo cp mjpg-streamer-default /etc/default/mjpg-streamer

• Run sudo systemctl daemon-reload to scan the new service file.
• Enable the service by issuing the command: sudo systemctl enable cammjpgstreamer.service

• sudo systemctl start cammjpgstreamer.service

• Use a browser on a computer connected to the same network as the raspberry pi.
• http://:8080/

TODO: Create a patch file to correct aspect ratio's of images in web interface (4:3 -> 16:9)