This image was created to provide access to PiCamera functionality on Raspberry Pis running the 64bit beta OS. As of the time this was created PiCamera wasn't supported on the 64bit OS as yet, this image works around that fact.
This image will use StreamEye to stream images with very low latency to a specified port. This allows you to just stream from the Pi camera or ingest those images in to another tool such as OpenCV.
Stereo stream, using a board like the StereoPi, is also supported. This will use the PiCamera capabilities to capture a side-by-side or top-bottom image simultansously from both cameras and combine the result in to one image.
Top-bottom is preffered from a performance perspective, an explanation for which can be found here. TLDR, splitting images by row is much quicker than by columns.
To get this up and running, install Docker on your Raspberry Pi, then grab the image using run:
docker pull neaveeng/simple-streameye-streamer
Once pulled, run using the following command:
docker run -d --privileged -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/vchiq -e ARGS=" -h 840 -w 640 -r 15 -q 25 -3d top-bottom" --name streameye neaveeng/simple-streameye-st reamer
In the above example the arguments are:
-h 840 -w 640 -r 15 -q 25 -3d top-bottom
These are required:
h (height, pixels), w (width, pixels), r (FPS)
-3d top-bottom is optional and will only work on Compute Module based boards such as the StereoPi that have dual camera support. It has the options of none, side-by-side, and top-bottom Please note, the H and W sizes are per image in this case and will either be double height or double width as a result.
Essentially anything in the ARGS will be passed through to the script, it supports anything that the StreamEye example script supports which is quite extensive!
This project and others like it are made possible by the kind support of my Patrons!
Angie and John Neave Bodger
Adam Gilmore
Bret Colloff
David Shrive
Sarah Cooper-Pinchbeck
Pheonix Labs
Mark Long
Alexander Gutenkunst
Alister Perrott
Andy Batey
Cara S.
Dave Booth
Eva Blake
John Thurmond
Mandy Berry
Shelagh Lewins