IoTCamera

To setup the pi camera do the following:

1. Connect the camera to the pi with the pins facing the hdmi port

2. ssh into the pi and run

sudo raspi-config

3. Select "Interfaceing options"

4. Select "P1 camera" and enable the camera

5. Reboot pi

6. Run

sudo apt-get install python3-picamera

7. Spend 4 hours installing openCV

8. install mqtt client

pip install paho-mqtt

You can now run:

python camera.py To open a websocket connection an send a picture analysed with openCV OR python mqtt_camera.py To publish to a mqtt broker if a person is detected by the camera or not