32bit OS for RPi Cam Web Interface

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Hi,
I’d like to run RPi Cam Web Interface on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2.
After installing the latest dietpi image, the software option wasn’t available.
I tried to install it manually (dietpi-software install 59) and it said “Software title (RPi Cam Web Interface) is not supported on aarch64 systems”.
So I thought it would be a good idea to install a 32bit version of the OS.
Is this supposed to work and are there still recent dietpi images for 32bit?
thanks!
Thomas

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you simply can use the image for RPI1 and Zero (armv6)

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Thanks, I already tried armv7, but not armv6 :sweat_smile:
Now I’m just struggling with the timelapse conversion to video file, which does not want to work :man_shrugging:

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Dunno what you tried so far, but with ffmpeg this should work:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" output.mp4

0.333*PTS would be 3x speed / 33% of original length,
0.5*PTS would be 2x speed / half lenght.
0.667*PTS would be 1.5x speed / 66% length and so on.

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If you start a timelapse (button in web interface), it captures a series of images, which you can convert to a video file afterwards (button in web interface).
And this function does not work for me, yet.

Thanks anyway.

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You can also use ffmpeg to make a video out of images, if the cam interface does not work for that.

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links for howto’s and stuff would be nice :wink:

Also, doing a search…saw that the RPiZero2 has issues with ffmpeg on 32bit builds

You can put a RaspiOS ARM64 build on the RPiZero2…not sure if it can convert to DietPi or not with the script.

I know it works, I have 64bit running on one in my closet right now

Ah crap…disregard…I have a straight debian11 arm64 running

warhawk@RPiZero2:/etc $ hostnamectl
   Static hostname: RPiZero2
         Icon name: computer
        Machine ID: *
           Boot ID: *
  Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
            Kernel: Linux 6.1.21-v8+
      Architecture: arm64

I know the script will convert straight Debian…

To the op…I found this howto/walkthru that might help
https://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface
Ah crud!

IMPORTANT BULLSEYE Note: Bullseye OS has replaced the camera stack which stopped the raspimjpeg working. Legacy camera support should be enabled. Do this within raspi-config under Interfce. If this shows just “Enable camera” then update raspi-config itself from its menu item. The interface option should now show enable Legacy camera support. The install.sh script will detect a Bullseye OS, set the right PHP version and create a missing directory needed by this software to run. Only the 32 bit OS version is supported. The 64 bit OS will not work.

Might look into Motion-Eye…another “Webgui” tool for cameras

oh snap…there is also mjpg-streamer