BI Support for Raspberry PI and/or Webcam on Laptop

byee

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Not if this is the right forum to post this but ............

I've been tinkering with both the arduinos and raspberry pi's for a couple of years. Does anyone know if BI supports the Raspberry Pi with camera with the PTZ mechanism?

I also have a couple of spare laptops laying around not doing much except collecting dust. I was wondering if I can just connect a webcam to the laptop......then have BI connect to the laptop webcam.

Does anyone know the above is achievable or even supported by BI?

Thank you!
 

fenderman

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Bi only runs on Windows... Yes it will be able to detect and use a Webcam connected to the laptop... Bi is running on a different machine you will need something like yawcam to generate a stream.. Based on power consumption alone it would be cheaper to buy a true ip camera
 
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