My 2017 Bird Nest Box should hopefully be up and running later this week, hopefully not too late for this season. This version has two camera: A 'from the side' camera which is a webcam (as described in previous posts), and a 'view from above' camera that uses as raspberry pi InfraRed (IR) camera with Infrared-cut to allow night and daytime viewing, I've added dimmable IR and non-IR led illumination. The RPi camera does video capture via the marvelous program
PikrellCam.
Test screen shots below (Microsoft LifeCam above, Raspberry Pi v2 IR cam below)
Daytime
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Daytime previews |
Night-time
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Night time previews |
I've also included an entrance hole counter and facility to measure ambient temperature and outside light levels.
More details to follow....