I’m not going to plug a monitor or keyboard into my Pi (or use an Ethernet cable for that matter either). You choose the downloaded and extracted image in the first step, then choose the microSD card/card reader that you inserted to your Mac and then hit „Flash!“ and wait a bit. For this I use Etcher, but there are ways to do this using the command line.Įtcher is pretty self explanatory. You’ll also need some way to write this image of the OS to your microSD card. As you won’t be using the Pi as a desktop computer, you can just go ahead and get the small Lite version.
#How to install ffmpeg on raspberry pi for free#
You can download it for free from their website. The OS I’m using most of the time is Raspbian. Step 2: Get the OS and write it to the microSD card I have yet to try the night vision version of that camera. In the past I went with the official camera module ( Amazon US*, DE*). Again, there are plenty of options available that plug directly into the Raspberry Pi and do not use USB. I assume you have a way to use your Mac/PC to write to this card, in other words: you have a card reader.Īnd of course, since you’re building a camera, well, you need a camera. I tend to stick with Sandisk cards ( Amazon US*, DE*). You can get away with a 16 or 32 GB model. You can either just get the board ( Amazon US*, DE*) or packages that come with a power supply, case, etc. So far I’ve only been using the Pi 3 Model B+ for my Homebridge needs.
Step 1: Get a Raspberry Pi and the necessary peripheralsĬurrently the Raspberry Pi 4 is the most recent model available and is available in various combinations, for example from Amazon. I won’t go too deep into Linux specifics, there are other (and better) places to learn about using the command line. I keep forgetting specifics because I simply don’t have to do some steps on a regular basis or there are tiny details that I’m not 100 percent sure of. The second reason for this article is reminding me how specific pieces are done. This works for live streams or just stills.
#How to install ffmpeg on raspberry pi how to#
Fist tell you – from beginning to end – how to turn a Raspberry Pi, the tiny computer running Raspbian, into a HomeKit camera, that you can access using Apple’s Home app. This article is meant to serve two purposes.