RearPi

Use your Raspberry Pi as rearview / backup camera and dash cam

RearPi is a simple application to display and record video signals transmitted by your Raspberry Pi over wifi.

Usable for nearly every car.

Caravans have an extra benefit when wifi is used to transmit video signals

Features:

- Front Loop Recording (15 min. 30 min. 45 min)

- Back Loop Recording (15 min. 30 min. 45 min)

- Option to set recording quality

- Integrated mediaplayer to watch recordings

- Integrated documentation

- Connect to your Raspberry via ssh (IP-Adress/Login name & Password)

- Start your camera on app start or with the "OPEN" button

- Close your camera with the "EXIT" button

- Full screen mode

To use your Raspberry Pi with RearPi as rearwiew camera / backup camera there are some steps to do.

Documentation: https://alikamouche.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/rearpi_documentation_v1-4.pdf

Quickguide:

First: Set up a Hot-spot to connect the Raspberry Pi and your phone/tablet.

Raspberry Pi:

To stream video you have to install mjpg streamer.

◦ sudo apt-get install build-essential libjpeg-dev imagemagick subversion libv4l-dev checkinstall

◦ svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/mjpg-streamer/code/ mjpg-streamer

◦ cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer

◦ VERSION=$( sed -n '/SOURCE_VERSION/s/^.*"\(.*\)".*$/\1/gp' < mjpg_streamer.h )

◦ REVISION=$( svnversion -cn | sed "s/.*://" )

◦ sudo checkinstall --pkgname=mjpg-streamer --pkgversion="$VERSION+$REVISION~checkinstall" --default

◦ make USE_LIBV4L2=true ← optional

- Give your Raspberry Pi a static IP-Address (detailed steps in the manual PDF).

- Connect with the App to your Raspberry Pi (IP/Login/PW)

Finish!