Thoughts on getting started on a Door Project
First I want to apologize..I'm fairly new to all of this but I'm just really tired of getting up all the time seeing whose at my apt door knocking and it turns out to be just sales people.
Project
Thinking of hooking up a Raspberry Pi + Camera Module to my Apt Door Peep hole. So It can take pictures or display it on a TFT Color monitor. It will take a picture on motion detection or not.
Things that would be a cool feature
-When motion is detected a picture will be taken (i was reading that motion doesnt work with the camera module yet but hopefully that has changed.)
-Access it online from anywhere(not really important)
-Access raspberry pi camera on my network so when i can see whose at the door so I don't have to get up for advertisers
Just wondering what to order is my starting point so far i got
Raspberry PI Model B
Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Case
tft color monitor
I'm planning to buy all of these from amazon .com
I'm unsure of what sdcard to buy I saw the compatibility list. But what do you guys recommend for the best compatibility and etc? Looking for good class 10 cards.
Im unsure of which power adapter is good for powering it. Thank you. Im hoping to buy everything off amazon.
Thank you
StuckOnATree said:
Thoughts on getting started on a Door Project
First I want to apologize..I'm fairly new to all of this but I'm just really tired of getting up all the time seeing whose at my apt door knocking and it turns out to be just sales people.
Project
Thinking of hooking up a Raspberry Pi + Camera Module to my Apt Door Peep hole. So It can take pictures or display it on a TFT Color monitor. It will take a picture on motion detection or not.
Things that would be a cool feature
-When motion is detected a picture will be taken (i was reading that motion doesnt work with the camera module yet but hopefully that has changed.)
-Access it online from anywhere(not really important)
-Access raspberry pi camera on my network so when i can see whose at the door so I don't have to get up for advertisers
Just wondering what to order is my starting point so far i got
Raspberry PI Model B
Raspberry Pi Camera Module
Case
tft color monitor
I'm planning to buy all of these from amazon .com
I'm unsure of what sdcard to buy I saw the compatibility list. But what do you guys recommend for the best compatibility and etc? Looking for good class 10 cards.
Im unsure of which power adapter is good for powering it. Thank you. Im hoping to buy everything off amazon.
Thank you
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Definitely sounds like an cool project. As far as good class 10 SD Card's this SanDisk Extreme Class 10 32 GB card is a very good card exact same on that I have only I have a 16 GB card, also it's listed on the confirmed working peripherals page. For a power supply this 5V 1.5A from the Pi Hut sold on Amazon is good power supply which can provide enough power for any USB devices you plug into the Raspberry Pi as well. Additionally this video is worth checking out, as it shows a person who's project was to create a motion detecting surveillance type setup using the Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi camera module.
hmm would a 32gb be overkill should I get a 16gb instead? Whats your opinion? Are you running out of room on your 16gb?
Is that power supply adapter the best one? Or is there another one ? Im trying to see if there's one with that qualifies for prime shipping. I guess i can use my asus neuxs 7 charger first until the one from pi hut arrives
Thank you for your advice so far.
StuckOnATree said:
hmm would a 32gb be overkill should I get a 16gb instead? Whats your opinion? Are you running out of room on your 16gb?
Is that power supply adapter the best one? Or is there another one ? Im trying to see if there's one with that qualifies for prime shipping
Thank you for your advice so far.
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If you can spend the extra money the extra storage is worth it. On my own setup I still have plenty of storage on my 16 GB card. I mainly use it for small experimental developmental work, and small projects, but if your going to use it for media of any kind 32 GB is essential. Regarding the power supply the one the Pi Hut sells I mentioned is very good, a lot of the other power supplies I've seen on Amazon are low quality that won't always provide consistent power output.
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thank you for taking the time to help out a beginner like me. I changed my order to the 32gb one and im just trying to figure out which amazon seller should i buy the raspberry pi from.
They have a few that is prime. Is there a difference from the made in china model ands made in uk models?
which one of these sellers would you buy it from
Blue Proton
MemoryWhiz
Midway Marketing
CanaKit
Savingcost
S.o.L.D
PartsDepot
heard of any one of these?
StuckOnATree said:
thank you for taking the time to help out a beginner like me. I changed my order to the 32gb one and im just trying to figure out which amazon seller should i buy the raspberry pi from.
They have a few that is prime. Is there a difference from the made in china model ands made in uk models?
which one of these sellers would you buy it from
Blue Proton
MemoryWhiz
Midway Marketing
CanaKit
Savingcost
S.o.L.D
PartsDepot
heard of any one of these?
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I personally haven't heard or dealt with any of those sellers. My advice would be read the reviewes for each seller and the feedback people have provided. Then go with the one with the best feedback. And I always enjoy helping people out, helping out is what makes XDA such a great community.
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I personally haven't heard or dealt with any of those sellers. My advice would be read the reviewes for each seller and the feedback people have provided. Then go with the one with the best feedback. And I always enjoy helping people out, helping out is what makes XDA such a great community.
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hmm it seems like the pi hut will take 18-20 days for shipping i was wondering if buying the powersupply fro adafruit any good?
5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed - its only 1000mA though compared to the 1500 on from pi hut
my own nexus 7 power adapter is 2.0a is that over the limit?
im thinking of buying the hp touch pad charger as well since it has a really high power rating...or maybe just split my orders order half of my items from amazon and the other from adafruit
StuckOnATree said:
hmm it seems like the pi hut will take 18-20 days for shipping i was wondering if buying the powersupply fro adafruit any good?
5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed - its only 1000mA though compared to the 1500 on from pi hut
my own nexus 7 power adapter is 2.0a is that over the limit?
im thinking of buying the hp touch pad charger as well since it has a really high power rating...or maybe just split my orders order half of my items from amazon and the other from adafruit
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The power supply from Adafruit is the one I use on my Raspberry Pi and it serves me well, I recommended the Pi Hut one because you mentioned you wanted to buy everything off Amazon if possible. You should be able to use your Nexus 7 power adapter just fine it will provide you with enough power for the Raspberry Pi plus any accessories such as external hard drive or wireless dongle that require power as well.
shimp208 said:
The power supply from Adafruit is the one I use on my Raspberry Pi and it serves me well, I recommended the Pi Hut one because you mentioned you wanted to buy everything off Amazon if possible. You should be able to use your Nexus 7 power adapter just fine it will provide you with enough power for the Raspberry Pi plus any accessories such as external hard drive or wireless dongle that require power as well.
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do you think the one from adafruit is good enough for powering a wifi dongle or should I cancel my order?
1 5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed $5.95
1 Raspberry Pi Camera Board $29.95
1 Adjustable Pi Camera Mount $4.95
1 12 VDC 1000mA regulated switching power adapter - UL listed $8.95
1 Adafruit Pi Case- Enclosure for Raspberry Pi Model A or B $9.9
what i ordered so far.
StuckOnATree said:
do you think the one from adafruit is good enough for powering a wifi dongle or should I cancel my order?
1 5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed $5.95
1 Raspberry Pi Camera Board $29.95
1 Adjustable Pi Camera Mount $4.95
1 12 VDC 1000mA regulated switching power adapter - UL listed $8.95
1 Adafruit Pi Case- Enclosure for Raspberry Pi Model A or B $9.9
what i ordered so far.
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The one from Adafruit will work just fine for powering a Wifi dongle it supplies enough power for the current Wifi dongle (An old spare Netgear Wireless dongle I had) that I use on my Raspberry Pi.
shimp208 said:
The one from Adafruit will work just fine for powering a Wifi dongle it supplies enough power for the current Wifi dongle (An old spare Netgear Wireless dongle I had) that I use on my Raspberry Pi.
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Im going to order the raspberry pi model b on amazon since the seller claims its the made in uk verison. I really appreciate the time you are spending to help me go through this. lol now i just have to figure out what to do next after getting all of these things together now thats going to be the hard part.. getting it up and running i may just hook up the raspberrypi to an Ethernet cable instead to save money from a wifi dongle. so far this has costed me ~$170.
Steps
1) hooking everything up
2) figuring out waht to do lol....
3) get the basic camera up and running
4) get motion running
5) remote access if possible
6) hope for no down time
StuckOnATree said:
hmm it seems like the pi hut will take 18-20 days for shipping i was wondering if buying the powersupply fro adafruit any good?
5V 1A (1000mA) USB port power supply - UL Listed - its only 1000mA though compared to the 1500 on from pi hut
my own nexus 7 power adapter is 2.0a is that over the limit?
im thinking of buying the hp touch pad charger as well since it has a really high power rating...or maybe just split my orders order half of my items from amazon and the other from adafruit
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The Nexus charger is better. It doesn't force the extra current in, it just has the ability to provide that current if needed.
It will be more stable with the 2A.
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StuckOnATree said:
Im going to order the raspberry pi model b on amazon since the seller claims its the made in uk verison. I really appreciate the time you are spending to help me go through this. lol now i just have to figure out what to do next after getting all of these things together now thats going to be the hard part.. getting it up and running i may just hook up the raspberrypi to an Ethernet cable instead to save money from a wifi dongle. so far this has costed me ~$170.
Steps
1) hooking everything up
2) figuring out waht to do lol....
3) get the basic camera up and running
4) get motion running
5) remote access if possible
6) hope for no down time
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All raspberry pi's are made in the UK...
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5ft24 said:
The Nexus charger is better. It doesn't force the extra current in, it just has the ability to provide that current if needed.
It will be more stable with the 2A.
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All raspberry pi's are made in the UK...
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oh because recently some pi's are made in china now =[ that's why i didnt order it from adafruit because they said they dont know which one you will get china or uk verison. adafruit just shipped my items i should be getting it soon... i just ordered my raspberry pi, sandisk 32gb, tft 3.5 inch monitor. maybe i should order another spare charger the nexus 7 charger since i use mine alot
StuckOnATree said:
oh because recently some pi's are made in china now =[ that's why i didnt order it from adafruit because they said they dont know which one you will get china or uk verison. adafruit just shipped my items i should be getting it soon... i just ordered my raspberry pi, sandisk 32gb, tft 3.5 inch monitor. maybe i should order another spare charger the nexus 7 charger since i use mine alot
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I was unaware... my bad
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I was unaware... my bad
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lol no worries. A lot of people didn't know about that. I believe it was recently they started to manufacture it in china.
I think i found something that works for me but im unsure of how to even get started =/
http://jamesmedd.tumblr.com/post/35270913619/raspberry-pi-tweeting-letterbox
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=26200
seems like i got more things to buy 0.0 I guess this is a much easier way to go and without having my camera on 24/7
StuckOnATree said:
lol no worries. A lot of people didn't know about that. I believe it was recently they started to manufacture it in china.
I think i found something that works for me but im unsure of how to even get started =/
http://jamesmedd.tumblr.com/post/35270913619/raspberry-pi-tweeting-letterbox
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=26200
seems like i got more things to buy 0.0 I guess this is a much easier way to go and without having my camera on 24/7
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One course of action you could take to making your project is modifying the tweeting letterbox code to remove the Twitter specific functions and instead modifying the code so you received an alert (E-mail, commuter dialog box prompt, phone text message, etc.) when the camera detected someone at the door.
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One course of action you could take to making your project is modifying the tweeting letterbox code to remove the Twitter specific functions and instead modifying the code so you received an alert (E-mail, commuter dialog box prompt, phone text message, etc.) when the camera detected someone at the door.
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haha yea email would probably be best but wow just not sure exactly what to buy to install a motion sensor and do i need to buy a better power adapter than the one from ada fruit
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haha yea email would probably be best but wow just not sure exactly what to buy to install a motion sensor and do i need to buy a better power adapter than the one from ada fruit
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I would start off with the power adapter you bought from adafruit and if you find you need more power for some reason you can purchase a more powerful adapter.
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shimp208 said:
I would start off with the power adapter you bought from adafruit and if you find you need more power for some reason you can purchase a more powerful adapter.
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ok i finally installled everything but now im on the first step of how do i just view what the camera is seeing on the startx desktop? is tthere an app? i tried to install cameroma but my camera module is not a usb so it didnt pick it up. Basically i just want to see what the webcam to seeing a camera viewer possible?
StuckOnATree said:
ok i finally installled everything but now im on the first step of how do i just view what the camera is seeing on the startx desktop? is tthere an app? i tried to install cameroma but my camera module is not a usb so it didnt pick it up. Basically i just want to see what the webcam to seeing a camera viewer possible?
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Just to make sure we're on the same page here by first step I assume you mean the first step from the Raspberry Pi Tweeting Letter Box tutorial, correct? The first step is to wire the camera to the breadboard and then to Raspberry Pi GIPIO pins as described in the tutorial. After that I would recommend running the python script he describes to run. Then once you have the script running you can start editing the code and removing the Twitter specific code so it acts as just a camera viewer like your looking for.
I Have a 2004 sierra and I'm looking to get my first double din so I don't know too much about them or have any experience on how they work or there UI.
I was really into the Alpine line but a blogger or whoever on youtube said Alpine is laggy, and said that pioneer has a really good GPS system and is updated the most frequent. But to my understanding I thought pioneer was a lower brand and that Walmart sells pioneer product. I'm not looking to spend $300 and hope for the best and I'm not looking to overpay just for a name. I really don't mind paying 600 since you get what you pay for. Does anybody have any good recommendations on a model that has all the bells and whistles and 3 RCA connections?
GPS (not so important tho)
HDMI or some way to mirror. I could do Google Maps that way
Bluetooth streaming.
DVD player
3 rca outlets for amps
Not laggy
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Today I've bought this amazing tablet (8 inch. one) and I have to say that this is just the best tablet I've ever had! But as an audiophile I am I ask myself one question, does this tablet support 24 bit / 192 khz ( or maybe 44 khz) high resolution audio? I've googled but found nothing about this. If not, do you recomend me any dac of external sound card that works with android? Thanks in advance! :good:
Edit 1: sorry 4 my english, I'm spanish :laugh: :laugh:
nobody???
S2 audio
Hi, I bought my Verizon Wireless S2 9.7 a couple of days ago.
I have an OPPO HA-2 DAC/headphone amp. I purchased the
USB DAC Audio Pro (or something similar to that name) on
Google Playstore (I wanted to try the free version but somehow
it finagled me into getting the paid one, lol).
I can play all hi-res files, including DSD 2.4 and 5.6
(although those are not handled natively by USB
Audio as I understand it) and it sounds good to
me (then again, I'm 64 and my high-end hearing
at least is shot, so what do I know, lol!).
P.S.--only real problem you can't listen and charge at same
time.
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Paul
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Thanks in advance
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Have not tried my DAC/AMP yet. C5A or something. My V20 has been my DAP and I have been using my AKGN60s. Pretty sure the Cirrus logic or Wolfson in Exynos version is better than the snapdragon Aqstic. The snapdragon DAC is just middle of the road.
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