Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of RaspberryPiSurveillanceMonitor

Timestamp:

Dec 1, 2016, 10:26:02 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Rick van der Zwet

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RaspberryPiSurveillanceMonitor

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+I have 2 FOSCAM HD IP camera and 1 UBNT airVision (old model) IP camera which are used for surveillance monitoring. Storage of images is done on the camera's itself, so I only needed something to view the live feeds of the camera's combined an a single screen. I had an old HDMI screen laying around and the Raspberry Pi 3 is yet the perfect (inexpesive fit) for this purpose.
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+= Getting started =
+* Install the standard debian Raspberry Pi and make sure to select console mode. We do need any GUI, since we will be using omxplayer to 
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+= Monitoring of camera feeds =
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+/root/kill_stuck_omxplayer.sh:
+{{{
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Quick to deal with omxplayers which are in deadloop,
+# detection based on low-CPU usage
+#
+for PID in `pgrep omxplayer.bin`; do
+  PCPU=`ps -p $PID -o pcpu=`
+  if echo $PCPU 2.0 | awk '{exit $1<$2?0:1}'; then
+    echo "Lets kill pid $PID"
+    kill -KILL $PID
+  fi
+done
+}}}
+
+/etc/crontab:
+{{{
+*  *    * * *   root    /root/kill_stuck_omxplayer.sh | logger
+}}}