Of course, there are many variants to take pictures with your raspberry pi camera and save them somewhere.<\/p>\n
I use my raspberry pi camera to observe my flat when I am away. I want to do this in a as secure way as possible, i.e., I do not want to open any special ports on my router nor do I want to send unencrypted images over the web.<\/p>\n
Inspired by \u00a0http:\/\/blog.davidsingleton.org\/raspberry-pi-webcam-a-gentle-intro-to-crontab\/<\/a>\u00a0 my idea was to take a photo every 5 or 10 minutes and save them to my ownCloud server via WebDAV with SSL encryption.<\/p>\n Step by step:<\/p>\n 1.) Make sure you have a raspberry pi with a camera module and an owncloud installation reachable over https \u00a0somewhere out in the web (with picture app activated).<\/p>\n 2.) Mount your owncloud drive on your raspberry pi: Create the directory \/home\/pi\/owncloud<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0and add the following line to fstab:<\/p>\n then mount the drive by calling\u00a0mount owncloud\/<\/span>\u00a0 or by calling\u00a0echo -e “y” | mount owncloud\/<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0if your server has a self-signed certificate as mine has.<\/p>\n 3.) My idea is to take a picture, say, every 10 minutes, and take them for 24 hours with any need to remove them manually. So, write a script like the following, name it “take_photo.sh”\u00a0and make it executable:<\/p>\n 4.) Set up the crontab by calling\u00a0crontab -e<\/span>\u00a0 and add the following line:<\/p>\n 5.) You are finished. Raspberry pi will take every 10 minutes a photo and save them to your ownCloud where you have a beautiful picture viewer that you can access wherever you are on whatever for a device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of course, there are many variants to take pictures with your raspberry pi camera and save them somewhere. I use my raspberry pi camera to observe my flat when I am away. I want to do this in a as secure way as possible, i.e., I do not want to open any special ports on … Continue reading Raspberry Pi Camera sends Pictures to ownCloud<\/span> https:\/\/[your.owncloud.domain.name]\/remote.php\/webdav\/ \/home\/pi\/owncloud davfs rw,noexec,noauto,user,async,_netdev,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0<\/pre>\n
#!\/bin\/bash\r\nfilename=\"\/home\/pi\/owncloud\/myflat_$(date +%H%M).jpg\"\r\nraspistill -o \/home\/pi\/image.jpg\r\nmv \/home\/pi\/image.jpg $filename<\/pre>\n
*\/10 * * * * \/home\/pi\/take_photo.sh<\/pre>\n