Raspberry Pi Zero is a PRO HQ webcam for less than $100!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- How does the HQ Camera stack up against other high quality webcams? WAIT, you can use a Raspberry Pi AS A WEBCAM?
In this video, I'll show you now to set up a Raspberry Pi Zero with the HQ Camera and the 6mm lens as a high-quality webcam to rival the quality of other cameras costing even more (if you can find them this year!).
And I'm not going to make you dive into the guts of your Raspberry Pi and compile code or anything like that-it's just one automated job that runs to set everything up for you, on any Raspberry Pi! (Right now it's only working correctly on the Pi Zero though!).
Mentioned in the video:
- Raspberry Pi Webcam Open Source project: github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam
- Pi Hut Mounting Plate instructions: thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-...
All the parts used to build the webcam:
- Raspberry Pi Zero W (can also use Zero): www.raspberrypi.org/products/...
- Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera: www.raspberrypi.org/products/...
- Raspberry Pi Zero camera cable: thepihut.com/products/raspber...
- 6mm lens for HQ Camera: thepihut.com/products/raspber...
- The Pi Hut Pi Zero HQ Camera mounting plate: thepihut.com/products/mountin...
And a few mounting options (affiliate links):
- SmallRig Ballhead Clamp Mount: amzn.to/33828gy
- Joby GorillaPod Magnetic Mini: amzn.to/3nNw8pX
- Joby GorillaPod 5K stand and ballhead: amzn.to/2IZa4Kd
- 25 inch flexible gooseneck webcam desk mount: amzn.to/3nOrxDO
Support me on Patreon: / geerlingguy
Sponsor me on GitHub: github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy
#RaspberryPi #PiWebcam
Contents:
00:00 - The Raspberry Pi Webcam
00:35 - Existing webcam problems
02:19 - Parts needed
03:40 - Existing solutions for Pi Webcams
04:45 - Easy Pi Webcam software setup
06:05 - Camera assembly
09:01 - How well does it work?
09:33 - Downsides: AF, mic, resolution
11:17 - Teasers and Bloopers - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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This is the highest form of TH-cam videos. 10/10 excellent. Thanks for making the project and recording this video.
: The highest form is no form.
Jeff, thanks for doing all the hard work on this project. I just finished building the webcam, and it works like a charm. I can't believe that the image is that clear. Can't wait to mount it to my telescope. Thanks again.
I love the outtakes. This is literally me trying to make a TH-cam video. Ordering all parts, can't wait to review this build!
Thank you, what a perfect timing! I am actually in the process of trying to do exactly that. I have 3 pi zeros which I plan on using like that. Literally one of them and a camera module are on my bench as a WIP right now. :D
Do it!
I just setup my own Pi Webcam this weekend and I am very happy with the result. Awesome project! And thank you Jeff for the detailed instructions
"John microphone"....that was funny Jeff. I literally laughed out loud.
No 'John microphone', but I've seen about a million microphone 'jacks' - lol! They're everywhere!
I think it serving a webpage for you to control exposure, white balance etc would be great, also as most people want 1080p the 4k sensor could also give a virtual pan and tilt
For someone who's yet to purchase a pi, I'm ever so delighted I subbed to your channel. Always such good content. Definitely will be making quite a few purchases in the future...
I had some issues running this off of the zero w but with the new zero w2 it runs perfectly
Still not working for me.
i had issues running on the zero w as well, i got it all working using 2020-02-07 Raspbian release from his github page and no updates to the os...if you get theModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml....then try pip3 install pyyaml... good luck
Love this Jeff! DIY Webcam is something I've been looking for and this solves that problem.
Great video, made perfect by the outtakes at the end. Thanks Jeff!
I'm happy to be one of the first subscribers, epic content and outstanding quality and effort!
Did this project back in December and I've been using the Pi webcam for all of my online college classes. I couldn't fine the plastic piece at the time so I used cardboard and zip-ties. Super sketch but hey, it works. Thanks for an awesome project! I'm looking forward to making your Pi NAS pretty soon.
A great project which was really simple to follow and setup, so thanks for the ansible automation. Would love to hear about any other uses you find for the HQ camera...
maaaan... love the bloopers! :) again a great video Jeff!
Fab, this is really useful & the quality is superb & what a great presentation, glad I subbed & thanks for the playbook.
unbelievable your channel has only 81 thousand viewers.. This USB RaspiCam project is *amazing* ! great work !
Wow, that is fantastic Jeff. Thank you for all the work and experience you put into the Raspberry Pi Webcam Open Source project.
I'm thinking of housing it to IP67 water/dust proof standards (or better) and using it externally as a backup camera(s) on my camper trailer. I have to work out the heat dissipation issue that will create too. I have so much to do!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this info! Your timing is perfect, I'm a musician about to start streaming performances and I need to keep expenses down. After some quick looking around, I think I'll opt for the 2.8-12mm lens instead, a little extra expense, but the 125deg FOV will be great.
This is excellent for my documentation project, thanks so much.
i love how you tell about your project..
Excellent tutorial. I am planning to get a Pi Zero W and looking for an easy project, and I just so happen to need a webcam for one of my computers!
A winning combination!
Looking forward to the videos about the HQ module! Always thought about doing something with it, like a telescope with star tracking.
Thank you very much! It worked on the first try with a Pi 4 and a night vision camera.
I tried this and love the result. Jeff made it very easy. With a 6mm lens I can use this on Zoom to show a white board with enough resolution to have people read what I write over Zoom. Adjusting the HQ camera ring allows me to adjust to a very close focus to show details of small things (say, a small magnetic floating over a cooled super conductor). This is a great project. Thanks so much for making this video.
Just ordered parts for this project! Can't wait to tinker with it!
Hey Jeff, thank you for the detailed guide and making this easier! For some reason I could not get this to work, any ideas or trouble shooting tips you could give?
Just assembled my pi-zero camera and I can confirm it works! One thing I did differently is I started with the Raspberry Pi OS Lite that is command-line only, but it works equally well. Thanks, Jeff, for the tutorial and github files!
Great! Most of my Pis run headless.
Great job. And thanks for the tip about that mounting plate.
Thank you Jeff for this quality video and project.
this has amazing potential, thank you!
Looks great!!! I will try it. Thank you for the information.
This is awesome! This is perfect for my super secret project I'm working on. Thanks for doing this!
a super secret spy project maybe. (just hoaxing)
This is perfect. Thanks Jeff! I love Ansible and can’t wait to see how you set up the code.
I cant beleave how awesome this works, its one of the best projects I have done with my Pi and something I have been looking for for years.....there will be beer money sent I can assure you
Mmm 🍻
Wow thanks alot for this awesome video! I'm in dire need of a webcam and was considering my options with building one myself. Finally I can get that Rpi Zero out of its drawer! =)
That's awesome. I replaced 4 cameras for last years and always experienced problems with quality of mount, quality of cables, autofocus, etc. And the majority of those cameras costed me about $100 each.
My next webcam would be rpi-based! I can replace USB cable, I can manually focus it. That's great!
i just did this, works perfectly! thanks jeff!
i did deviate a bit on the install steps by using brew to install ansible on my mac... and some of the commands i used are probably useless because of that... but i got it to work in the end!
Great video the camera looks like much better quality. You're the best!
Tried it on a Raspberry Pi Zero (first one, not the W model) with the standard camera module (v2.1). Using it connected to a Linux computer. It's working great! Thanks for sharing this.
I made the setup on a Pi model 3B, installing Raspberry OS Lite, then plugged the card in the Pi Zero when the ansible script was finished.
Bought all the parts, awsome Project
Worked like a charm!
Great work Jeff! Was curious to know what kind of framerates we could expect from such a setup?
Jeff, I build it and sofar it is awesome. Next week I will test it.
Great sharpness, the ony things I noticed were the 6mm lens that you must unscrew it a little from the mount to get it sharp and the flat cable is far from ideal. But it is in total, every Dutch Euro worth. Thnx a lot for this Christmas present.
Great project thank you so much it works great. I use a different camera sensor I couldn’t get the HD module in Japan for a decent price. I also use raspios lite instead of the full since once it completed there is no need to have a desktop environment.
Thanks so much for this!
Great video! I tried the uvc-gadget way but it didn’t feel reliable, sometimes it would just crash while recording. I was also hoping to see a bit more on the focusing side, since I struggled a lot with the fixed cctv 6 mm lens. I still haven’t managed to get it to focus! I’d love a short video on that
Amazing Video thanks. So did you film yourself on the HQ cam or your own camera? You said you had it on 720P mainly due to frame drop but it looks 1080p throughout the video ??
Great stuff, good work. This was so helpfull for me.
That's exactly what i was thinking of doing yesterday.
But you did it first so thanks
And now you can do it faster than I did :D
Thank You So much for this project 5-Stars!!!! I'm adding the "iUniker 2.8-inch" LCD as a selfie viewfinder and fab'n a combo mount. I'm thinking I'll put a Blue-Snowball mic mount top, or the voice hat microphone if I get ambitious.
Great production & presentation. 👍👌Thanks for the info.✌💜🙏
It worked, i got all the parts, and the pie only crashed once during the install. It shure wasn't fast but it works greate now. THX a lot
Thank you for this excellent tutorial and Ansible playbook!
For anyone wanting to directly output the video to the HDMI output the solution is simple:
* Use raspi-config to autologin to the CLI
* place 'raspivid -t 0' as the last command into the .bashrc file in the home directory of the pi user.
Can not be used as a webcam then.
The output goes either to USB or to HDMI, not both at the same time.
Wow, very cool and helpful. Thanks a lot!!!!
I love that you implemented setup as an Ansible Playbook.
I figure I forget enough things in my day as it is. Might as well make the things I build automated and repeatable so my own memory doesn't really matter!
Might work as a camera for my telescope as well...
Jeff, you crazy man, you saved me from a lot of trouble
Very nice, thanks. If it had auto focus, I'd definitely try this.
Jeff, just wanted to say thank you and also to the developers of the various tools and libraries. This was a very fun project! For other folks benefit, I used a pi camera v2, mostly flawlessly. It was very slow in parts because I enabled the camera and had very little ram. I was foolishly on this youtube video and github (on the pi zero!) while doing this...that I do not recommend and will not repeat on the next round. But this worked flawlessly. Thank you again for the fun! AWESOME!
Glad you got it working, thanks for posting your comment :)
LOL, the bloopers are great!!!
HEY! this is pretty cool Jeff! thanks!
solid work my good man. Glad I sub'd to this channel
I've used this for a few months using a regular V2 8 megapixel Pi Cam (not HD). It always works in Zoom and Teams. I have had it running in the background all day without issue to other apps. I've disconnected and reconnected the USB cable throughout the day, also without issue. There are limitations with the regular V2 Pi camera itself. There is no white balancing, so sometimes my face is a bit redder than normal. The auto-exposure will underexpose your face when there is a window or other bright light in the frame.
You are doing great work. I noticed you used to be camera shy. But now you are doing awesome. Keep up the great work.
Fun fact: In college, when I took a public speaking class, I actually scored off the charts for public speaking anxiety in the test we took at the beginning of the year :D
It's definitely a thing where the only way to overcome that anxiety is to do it over and over!
Love this project! Been using it with a zero and a 140 wide angle lens the last few months for college and streaming with friends and it has been perfect. If I were to play around with the resolution settings for the video where would I change those?
Jeff, your timing is excellent as I, too, have found that webcams don't seem to have the value they once had. I'm trying to set up a TH-cam channel but have no idea how to capture videos off of various old but still functional cameras ranging from cell phones to digital SLRs and port them to a video editor. Right now the process of connecting them to my computer and stitching the images together into a single seamless video seems like magic to me. Can you explain that process for us in future videos? Thanks! Subbed.
cool, Like the bloopers at the end
I'll be interested to see how you got this working with a telescope, I have had a lot of trouble getting any photos of anything but the moon. Great work!
I built this back in September, and was really happy with the results! I tried out a couple of different cmount lenses, 6mm, 8mm, and 25mm. It's got a crazy crop factor!
I’m curious which focal length you found best as a “webcam equivalent”?
@@mlindholm Definitely the 6mm for webcam all the way! The 8mm was a big jump, and for the 25 mm I literally had to be across the room! You can see the results on my channel, in a video called "Build a Better USB Webcam" I don't think I can post the link here, because TH-cam will flag it as spam.
I found that the newest version of the raspberry pi operating system doesn't seem to work with this, so I started over with the legacy buster version. I also had to install Ansible using sudo apt install ansible after running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. Running the ansible install at the end of the command shown in this video didn't work for some reason, the ansible-playbook command was not found. With these changes though, it seems to work as advertised. Thank you for this tutorial and the ansible playbook, this is an excellent solution for a problem I had where I needed a very lightweight camera solution that wouldn't affect the balance on a small portable telescope.
This is gold, THX so much❤️
Thanks! Looks useful. I have a few questions and comments though.
How about making your configuration default to usb mic or usb audio interface to get the sound?
Instead of using OBS for sound processing, maybe it is even possible to setup RPi for noise reduction, compression etc? Maybe also making HDMI output with audio for the capture card could be useful.
Acessing such webcam through wifi would require custom client installed on PC?
Very nice Strat in the background.
I got it working. Forgot to upgrade. But I also installed yaml and now it works like a dream. Thanks Jeff for your valuable channel and all the work that goes into making these gems/tutorials and GitHub projects. I’m using the 16mm lens and the result is amazing. Thanks again. By the way if anyone knows where I can get my hands on a zero w2 let me know, global shortage.
I'm really curious to know the latency of it. I've been trying to build a system in my truck which uses an x86 64 bit mini pc as a head unit that has a backup camera, two Blind Spot cameras, and a front bumper camera(amongst others). The issue is this I need a camera that has zero latency which apparently other than HD over analog does not exist.
Looking forward to the one on the Telescope!
Amazing work!
I've been thinking about a Pi camera as an astrocam. I'll be excited for that one.
Me too! What I'm pondering right now is if I'd be able to set up a Pi that stacks images and also controls a motor for a built-in star tracker!
@@JeffGeerling Same! I have thought about a remote telescope setup, as winter sets in. Get the scope out, and then run it from inside where it is warm.
@@JeffGeerling Can't wait to see that.
There are adaptors out there for C/CS mounts so you can replace the eyepiece with the PI HQ camera - got one but not tried it at night yet. I've also done a 3d printed case for the camera & a 3A but designed it so the camera part can be housed separately so not much weight on the telescope
@@BuckeyeStormsProductions Always nice when it's cold outside! Usually the best nights for viewing, too :/
Great video! once configured, is there a way to stop the webcam so the camera could be used for other purposes?
Hi,
I tried this and it worked out for me too.
By the way I am not using the sony HQ camera,I am using Raspberry Pi cam 1.3 version.And it worked well for me.
Thanks
great video - thank you
You saved my day, very nice explanation! I'm only getting issues of video latency how can I improve that? or any other way to reduce the frame size, currently it is 1280x720.
Great video and big thanks for sharing the project!
Tip: You should get some type of squeeze-bulb blower made for photography equipment - Giottos Rocket Blower being one of the best and most popular. It can safely be used to blow dust off the sensor which you should never do with canned air which can also damage lens coatings.
CheerZ!
I have a little knockoff rocket blaster, and it comes in handy all the time!
Looks like it could be interesting for astrophotography. You'd want to remove the IR cut filter and thermoelectrically cool the sensor, but it could yield decent results taking 200s exposures.
Thank you so much !
man you a real one for this!
"complicated stuff like git clone" ah yes, the complicated command.
And then he went on to use that command to clone the pi-webcam repo! What a nut!
@@JeffGeerling a complete MADMAN!
@@JeffGeerling would be more automated with docker run ...
Very well donee video ! Do you have the link to that CS to Nikkor lens adapter? I want to use my 10mm Nikon lens
Great video! If I were to use this in my everyday pc that I turn off every night and back on every morning, is there a shutdown procedure for the RPi webcam?
I would like to suggest a video.... a raspberry pi home security system with a raspberry pi or a pi zero and a raspberry pi camera....... with focus on recording in intermittent segments like a dash cam does deleting videos after a certain time or when card is full or file limit is full... or with a motion sensor... and also being able to record in the dark... like a camera set up pointing at a drive way from inside window or at front door to the house.... just a suggestion... i enjoy and appreciate all your videos they are all very well informed and educational... thanks and have a great day.
I can See this "thing" attached to a telescope :D!
Happy New Year!
That's EXACTLY what I'm doing!
Wondering if there is an IR filter on the sensor that needs to be removed to function better as a USB webcam spectrophotometer. That would be an interesting video also regarding using like the 720 vs 1080 quality say on a Pi4... plus using your telescope also. Looking forward to more videos regarding the HQ and SBC as a webcam. Thanks for sharing!
Jeff, Some disagree that not having a microphone on the camera is a downside; it is a blessing.
Thanks, very very interesting!
Hey, nice video, I actually have the same setup as you do, only difference being I use the rpi 4B. However, I get a lot of noise and poor image quality. I have cleaned the lenses and everythong, messed around with ISO, exposure, fli, lighting, etc to no avail. Can you share what settings you run it with? I mean the parameters to raspivid, and so on...
Awesome project! Would be great to also have video 1080 preview for a brief moment (is there an actual quality difference to 720?).
Hi, thats awesome! Does it also work with an other raspberry pi camera? (I have the V2 camera module)
I know the camera is at the heart of this video but I really smiled at the (currently) latest comment in the tasks on the git project. “Complete overhaul. Let’s make this thing actually work” Refreshing to see an Ansible master sometimes just need to start again - makes me feel better.
Haha! That's every project for me :D - fail 100 times, then find a way to make it work on the 101st try.
Wow amazing. i wish next project 360 camera in raspberry pi
Nice. Great content!