Summary

Now that we've completed the third chapter, let's review some of the main tasks you learned to do:

  • You installed luvcview to test the camera's CPU usage
  • You used omxplayer to view video files
  • You configured the Raspberry Pi to support both webcam and PiCam video acquisition by installing the raspivid and motion utilities.
  • You installed GParted to validate the data partition used to manage file space for video storage
  • You created Bash shell scripts to automate raspivid and to combine raspivid and motion into a small but functional movement-triggered security camera system
  • You created the Python 3 script to provide a small GUI for the security camera.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to use VLC and audio devices to create an Internet radio. ...

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