Raspberry Pi camera use

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To boot the raspberry pi up,

 connect cat6 cable to onenet switch (next to it)
 connect monitor (HDMI)
 connect keyboard
 the wireless mouse should already be there
 connect the usb power plug

It should then boot up and connect itself to onenet where it will have the IP

  192.168.203.2

on some machines it can also be reached as darekpi02 if DNS is set up properly


To use the raspberry pi camera to stream data:

 sudo service motion stop
 ./motion -c motion-mmalcam-both.conf

that should start a little webserver so that you can see the live stream from a web browser as:

 http://192.168.203.2:8081

You will have to be on onenet to see the the video stream.

When you want to stop the stream, simply type crtl-c in the window you started the stream in

To configure the raspberry pi to use the streaming software do

 TBD