Motioneyeos can turn a Raspberry Pi into an ip camera.
Normally I am not fond of canned software, but this one might be an exception. Motioneyeos is a raspberry pi implementation for the program Motion. Motion is software to control video capture devices. All control is done via the web. For purposes of this project we used an original raspberry pi. (https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/releases). There are several releases depending on the unit you have.
First I tried a logitech usb camera clone. The system recognized it immediately. Not like a certain other operating system where you have to load the drivers for almost everything.
Then we added an ipcamera (network ready). After adding the network camera file, it worked just like you would expect. The documentation for the camera the did not have the description of the file. Fortunately the Motion software site did have that information. (http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/vi...WorkingDevices) Again no additional drivers were required.
Actual picture is much clearer. For a novice user it is pretty simple. Only exception is shutting the unit down, I did not see a visible icon. Also security could be greater, but for the price of free you can not beat it.
Let's get your system up to date (might take a while if you have not updated very recently).
$ sudo apt-get install motion.
if not, you may need to get a more mainstream camera. usually Logitech sets the standard. I just used a cheap refurbished knickoff. Your output will vary..
You can change other settings but it's recommend you don't take more than 2 frames, and you been the default frame pixel size, for stability.
Note if you want to use an ipcamera it is easy but you have to know about the camera. I ended up going to the zoneminder wiki and found the answer for my camera. Setup is the same, but you have to add two lines to motion.conf.
I have ZM installed on my Media Server that runs multiple programs including Apache, email server, and Mysql with no issues. I dont know if the earlier stages of Zm was picky like that but its more friendly now neat! do this to my room!
Cool. I also thought of maybe using this for a pod casting setup also.
Awesome. I was easily able to set up a video surveillance system at home and at work.