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Jan Weiß edited this page May 24, 2016 · 3 revisions

Insalling and running video stream components

Setup

To install all the required components you have to copy the installuv4l.sh and the uv4l-raspicam.conf from the videostream folder in the repository to the home directory of your raspberry pi.
After this you only have to execute the install script as root:

    sudo ./installuv4l.sh

After installing the components the raspberry will reboot and the camera server is running. After the reboot the uv4l_raspicam service will start automatically and the camera will only turn on if a client connects to the stream.

Accessing the stream

If you would like to have a more detailed version or to install the components manually please find a manual documentation in the video stream section of the wiki at the section Streaming video with UV4L MMAL. You only should copy after the manual installation the uv4l-raspicam.conf to /etc/uv4l/ and restart the service:

    sudo service uv4l_raspicam restart

After setting up you could see the video stream at http://<IP ADDRESS/HOSTNAME OF PI>:9000/stream.

Remove the installed components

To remove all the installed components you could find an remove script in the videostream folder in the repository. Copy it to the pi and execute it:

    sudo ./removeuv4l.sh
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