Raspberry Pi Hedgehog Cam

[SolarPiCam]

I'm going to try and make a Raspberry Pi hedgehog watcher, I have all the stuff, yet I need help with the software. When the Pi is outside, I'll be connecting to it via SHH to do stuff, however I already have problems with it indoors. It takes several attempts to connect to SHH, as just times out. I am doing everything correct, I enabled it and have all the passwords but still not working. Same thing when connecting though my browser to motion, it either connects or times out. I am confident that I have a connection it, and the dongle it has works fine in my Windows PC. I have re-formatted it and put the latest raspbian on, but it's still the same. Any other software that does what motion does? Thanks in advance, SolarPiCam

[joan]

Could you explain what you mean by connect via your browser to motion? Is the browser running on your Pi or some other machine?

motion is pretty much the standard piece of software for this type of application.

[SolarPiCam]

Could you explain what you mean by connect via your browser to motion? Is the browser running on your Pi or some other machine?

motion is pretty much the standard piece of software for this type of application.

In the configuration it is possible to set up motion to share the live video over your LAN, and view in the browser of a computer on the your LAN. You just do 192.168.1.** (Pi's IP) and add the port at the end that you set in the config to view the live video. This works intermittently, but I think it's a problem with the Pi or motion. That what I need to know.

[charlino10]

I have a pi + motion 'chicken-cam', and whilst I can see the video feed inthe browser- I can't watch it for long periods of time because it will stop working and begin timing out. 30 seconds or so is ok, after that it begins to lag and it starts to fail to refresh properly.

Not had any problems ssh-ing in though, but my pi is wired to the network, not wireless.

[SolarPiCam]

I have a pi + motion 'chicken-cam', and whilst I can see the video feed inthe browser- I can't watch it for long periods of time because it will stop working and begin timing out. 30 seconds or so is ok, after that it begins to lag and it starts to fail to refresh properly.

Not had any problems ssh-ing in though, but my pi is wired to the network, not wireless.

Thanks. I'll try using a wired connection, maybe it's too much for the dongle to handle.

[SolarPiCam]

Yay! Tried a wired connection and it works! Any suggestions for a 'heavy duty' WiFi dongle?

[AndrewS]

Maybe your power-supply simply isn't capable of supplying enough juice to power your wifi-dongle (and it's dropping out), or maybe your wifi-dongle is entering power-saving mode?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/searc ... aving+mode

[SolarPiCam]

Maybe your power-supply simply isn't capable of supplying enough juice to power your wifi-dongle (and it's dropping out), or maybe your wifi-dongle is entering power-saving mode?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/searc ... aving+mode

I'm not sure thats the case. I've been able to use the dongle for ages before with the Pi, and never had this before. It says on the eLinux website that the Pi is compatible with my dongle.