New raspberry pi zero W

Keplar240B

A new product: meet Raspberry Pi Zero W, a new variant of Raspberry Pi Zero with wireless LAN and Bluetooth, priced at only $10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNyvmnGoSKY

ShRT

And most of the shops (pihut, modmypi etc) have just got new stock in so order soon or will be another week or two before the next stock delivery in my experience

Chet T16

Can't wait to get one and find no use for it just like every other pi i've had!

me_irl

Chet T16 wrote: »

Can't wait to get one and find no use for it just like every other pi i've had!

Same!

Well, I've a pi 3 set up with RetroPi and a pi 2 running MotionEyesOS. But it's always a case of "sure I'll find a use for it!".

I've absolutely no confidence with soldering / electronics so I'm limited to attaching the (very easy) on board camera or other "plug and play" peripherals.

davo2001

me_irl wrote: »

Same!

Well, I've a pi 3 set up with RetroPi and a pi 2 running MotionEyesOS. But it's always a case of "sure I'll find a use for it!".

I've absolutely no confidence with soldering / electronics so I'm limited to attaching the (very easy) on board camera or other "plug and play" peripherals.

How do you find motion eye on the pi? I installed motion (not motion eye) a couple of years ago and use it for video survallance but find the video a bit laggy.

me_irl

davo2001 wrote: »

How do you find motion eye on the pi? I installed motion (not motion eye) a couple of years ago and use it for video survallance but find the video a bit laggy.

I have the NoIR-cam set to 640x480 and 30fps and video streaming is (mostly) stable. It will "jump" a second here or there, but MotionEyesOS has a feature to overclock the pi.

Have it uploading an image to Google Drive at set intervals as I haven't tried to set up port forwarding / SSH on it... yet. Don't want to break anything!

I bookmarked this link earlier to see if I can change any settings (to maximise performance)

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues/109

shoutman

Hi guys,

Purchased the Raspberry Pi Zero W as my first foray into the world of pi...

Anyway was looking at this project https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-security-camera/

Would motion pi run on the Raspberry Pi Zero W? And if so when it comes to installing it on the sd, which version do I go with as there are only option for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3.

Github is here https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/releases

As I said, I'm a complete noob so any help would be much appreciated.

me_irl

shoutman wrote: »

Hi guys,

Purchased the Raspberry Pi Zero W as my first foray into the world of pi...

Anyway was looking at this project https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-security-camera/

Would motion pi run on the Raspberry Pi Zero W? And if so when it comes to installing it on the sd, which version do I go with as there are only option for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3.

Github is here https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/releases

As I said, I'm a complete noob so any help would be much appreciated.

That's the exact guide I used too!

I found this on the facebook page for motioneyesos:



And in the notes of the pre-release (link)

OS: raspberrypi: added support for Raspberry PI Zero W board

^ So, I'm assuming it's the raspberrypi zip you download (not versions 2 or 3).

I've run a pre-release on the pi2 without any issues.

EDIT: If you were stuck or didn't want to format your sd card with that pre-release you could install Raspbian (link), and then install picam via the terminal/python (link).

shoutman

Cheers for the reply so which of the downloads would I go with as I don't see one that specifies for the Pi zero W?

me_irl

shoutman wrote: »

Cheers for the reply so which of the downloads would I go with as I don't see one that specifies for the Pi zero W?

Sorry, I was ninja-editing all over the gaff. I'm assuming it's just the "raspberrypi" (not the 2 or 3).

You could message the facebook page or ask via the github issues page: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues

Oh, wait I found this question...

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues/807

If you scroll down a bit to "wdawson001"'s comment.

Cool,

Raspberry Pi Zero W - MotionEyeOS

Download the latest img for MotionEyeOS - recompiled from the updated firmware to work with the Pi Zero W
Install in the usual ways
Once flashed, open the boot partition and add a file called wpa_supplicant.conf
Open and edit wpa_supplicant.conf with the instructions from here
Once booted, it should connect to the wireless automatically and you can just find the IP and log in
Notes:

All of this has been compiled from the repository, no changes on my part
This is not officially supported yet, so don't annoy @ccrisan if this doesn't work
I've tested it with 2 Pi Zero W's with the official camera module - I haven't tested it with any usb cameras
No drivers need to be copied
EDIT:

SSH is not working with this release on the Pi Zero W

The link that user posted is the raspberrypi 1 image. So, I'd suggest going with that in the pre-release download.