On the open source social network Mastodon I am following gnulinux.ch who brings up interesting news all around GNU/Linux. So gnulinux.ch has recently posted news about a release of the MotionEye Software which is a web-based frontend for motion. Usually motionEye and motion are used to record videostreams when motion is detected on one of the attached cameras. This is especially useful for security and surveillance cameras but I wanted to simply use MotionEye to show a videostream on a Website vor app and use it for a better version of my babycam v.1 and babycam v.2 MotionEye is using...
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DIY Musicplayer for Kids – PhonieBox
With a growing number of children the need for more than one music player is quickly arising. As you know I am fond of free software, so I decided to build something with, tadaaaah: free software 😉 Fortunately there is a great project on the internet: the PhonieBox It is a collection of scripts that creates, on top of a raspberry pi, a music player with an interface for an RFID-Reader, Arcade-Buttons to control volume and skip tracks, and a webserver to upload music files to the raspberrys internal SD-Card. You can also add youtube-links, webradio and even play spotify-playlists....
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On my first babycam I used a usb-webcam, LXDE, chrome and Jitsi to get the video signal to the receiver. I needed to replace the camera and decided to buy a used raspberry pi cam (v1.3). I also printed a case for the cam but this turned the camera upside down and the jitsi picture too. While you could turn the picture with: I also was a little disturbed with the high resource consumption of the desktop and especially the jitsi session inside chrome. The pi got hot (ca. 80 degrees C) so i needed to install a fan to...
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