Hi !
Today, during my [Let’s setup a Raspberry Pi and a reTerminal as an Azure IoT ☁ device] session, one of the questions was about what cool scenarios we can run once we have a Raspberry Pi as an Azure IoT Edge device.
Besides the use of Cognitive Services (only for x64), a cool and fast idea can be to convert your RPi to a RTSP Cam device. We only need to connect a USB WebCam to the Raspberry Pi.
Once the USB Camera is connected, we need to add the following Edge Module to the device configuration
More information: RTSP Webcam
The module runs as a IoT Edge container named RtspWebCam. While running the container image, one must map the USB camera on the host device to the container by using the following module createOptions parameters: PathOnHost=/dev/video0, PathInContainer=/dev/video0.
Once we add the module, we can see the module running in the device:
And, we will have access to a RTSP Camera. And we can run a sample python app to have the view from the camera.
Sample Code
Happy coding!
Greetings
El Bruno
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