I found a video in which a guy does cool stuff with a raspberry pi and — although I've done all those things separately on various occasions — something about his presentation of it made me excited to duplicate his demo.
Needless to say, it did not flow as effortlessly for me as his video implied it would. Took me like 3 days to access the app on my LAN; I was asking for help from a network engineer friend and all sorts. Turned out I hadn't configured the server settings correctly 🙄
Well anyway I solved that problem and several others and I got as far as having a fastapi server running that captures an image on page refresh when I ran out of steam, partly because my camera is night-vision and therefore seems to be pretty low-res. monochrome and crap. Maybe I'll get a regular camera module and try again to get to get full-motion streaming.
The good things are:
- as usual, I enjoyed the process
- made use of raspberry pis I had lying around
- used Nuxt.js, which is relevant for work
- refreshed my neural pathways for if I want to use something like this in future.