esp32-cam-webserver VS motion

In a nutshell, my project includes all of the amazing WebServer features of EasyTarget plus:

Try a different USB cable and check carefully for any solder shorts on the board. I would highly recommend this expanded version of the software which allows you to access lots more settings

Hi. I'm trying to run esp32-cam-webserver expanded on AI thinker esp32-s cam and I'm getting a bootloop. Here's a serial monitor log

How can i tell if a github lib is safe to use? Eg: https://github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver . I mean i put my wifi credentrials in there and let them running in my network. a Hackers dream if there is a backdoor in it. Since i am not a C Developer i cant tell how a Backdoor would be look like.

32) USE an ADVANCED web server to control your ESP32-cams. This is the code I have been running on my esp32 Cams https://github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver There are others but this guy is still maintaining his (as of writing this his last update was 5 days ago, on a project he started like 2 years ago) You can have one web page open controlling the stream, and the stream being viewed in a cell in a web page on a completely separate device on a completely separate network (as long as there is a route between the 2)

If you flash it with this expanded version of the firmware you get access to more settings https://github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver

There's is a lot more options with this version, led on off with 1 to 10 intensity, video can be rotated 90° not just mirrored https://github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver

Background: I'm using ESP32+Cam with this firmware: https://github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver

https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack - started working on this as a wrapper over OpenAI's endpoints for another product and it gradually became this.

Another project I worked on for my own use was a network isolated, lightweight video monitoring system. Around 5 years ago, I was looking to install a camera in our living room. I couldn't find anything I trusted that worked completely offline without some companion app pinging their servers. So I bought a basic IP camera on Amazon that supports rtsp and a raspberry pi. Created a fenced wifi network and added the camera to it.

Had an FFmpeg process read camera stream on demand and write to local buffers. Wrote a simple python server to listen for incoming connections on a different interface and stream the video on API requests. Then built an android app that talks to the python server to stream video on demand.

Also installed motion (https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion) on raspberry pi to detect motion in the video and store those snippets to local storage. With motion running, the adapter I was using wasn't delivering enough power resulting in storage occasionally unmounting and raspberry pi restarting taking the camera system offline. With motion detection disabled, the entire setup ran reliably for many years.

We used https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion for crude version of that in our office closet datacenter.

It just detected movement, sent an email with video file attached and a link to stream.

No face detect AI but this is ancient software, and minimum effort to set up

MotionEyeOS

I had a similar setup to see what my pet hedgehog was getting up to at night and I used motion to do motion detection on the stream and save videos when it happened. I think you can also set a script to run whenever motion is detected. Might be worth looking into.

I use Motion for my security camera... it only records motion if you want it to: https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion...

apt-get install ffmpeg libmariadb3 libpq5 libmicrohttpd12 wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.3.2/buster_motion_4.3.2-1_arm64.deb dpkg -i buster_motion_4.3.2-1_arm64.deb

You might consider Motion. It's reliable and uses little resources. It comes with a browser UI.