Niceygy / piCam

A simple util for managing the camera on a Raspberry Pi

PiCam

Camera Module

Installation

1. Clone the repo to your home directory, under "picam" git clone https://git.niceygylive.xyz/Niceygy/picam.git /home/$USER/picam
2. Install python3, git and wget with apt update -y && apt install python3 git wget
3. Install requirements with python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Add the following to CRON (WARNING! This will make your PI only usable over SSH. Check that it is working beforehand!). Replace USER with your username @reboot /home/USER/picam/app/paralell.bat "python3 /home/USER/picam/app/main.py 1" "python3 /home/USER/picam/app/cam.py" "python3 -m http.server" @weekly cd /home/USER/picam && git pull --force
5. Reboot your PI

Updating

This is handled automatically! You`re welcome

PC App

Installation

1. Clone the repo to your PC. curl https://packages.niceygylive.xyz/picam/install.sh | pwsh
2. Get the IP of your PI
3. Replace the IP in openCV/image.py with your IP. Leave the "tcp://" and the ":33" alone
4. Start the app with python3 openCV/main.py

Usage

C. Compare images
T. Take a new Template image
S. Sync from the camera
F. Find a part in an image or
A. Add a new part
Possible options ^

1. Board comparison:

By using the Take template function, you can take an image of the "golden sample" you want all boards to be like. Then, using the Compare images function, you can check for diffrences between the "golden sample" and your current board. WARNING! It will work better if it is alligned well, so I suggest using a clamp or vice to keep the boards in the same place from one to the next.

2. LED Control

There are three buttons, marked with a "+", a "-" and a backwards "c". The "-" button rotates the lit LEDs clockwise. Only three will be lit up at a time.
The backwards "c" button toggles all lights on/off.
The "-" button is currently broken, although is suppose to take an image. You can use the "Take a template image" function for now.

3. Managing parts

You can either Find parts on a board or Add a part to the list that it can find.
When adding a part, make sure the camera can see the part and nothing else. If you need to, manually crop the image afterwards. This part will then be added to ./openCV/parts/parts.txt, and an image saved under ./images/

When Finding a part, make sure the entire board is visible and well lit up. Ideally use the same lighting for taking images of boards and parts.
The Pi will then highlight all the matches to that part that it can find, up to 256 instances.

4. Syncing images

This is broken at the moment, so don`t use it.
See https://git.niceygylive.xyz/Niceygy/PiCam/issues/1 for more

Any issues?

Open a issue! I`ll get back to you as soon as I can