Raspberry Pi Experiment 01: PiCam Video Streaming via WiFi

Experiment Goal:

To enable the following features:
– capturing of live video by means of Raspberry Pi Camera module
– streaming of the captured video to custom PC Client

Constellation:

1) RPi PI running Raspbian

2) Server side is running on PI (Python script) waiting for 1 client to connect (TCP)

3) Video streams to connected client (Linux/Windows) in mjpeg (configurable # of frames)

4) C# client application using VLC WPF-control to display the video inside the application window. Start stop streaming commands are send to RPi trough TCP-IP

Components:

– Board: Raspberry Pi model B or higher (RPi-Model-B ebay/RPi2-Model-B ebay)
– OS SD-card: NUBS (preinstalled/self-made after download)
– Camera: Raspberry Pi Camera module (ebay) or PiNoIr Camera module (ebay)
– Wi-Fi: EdiMax EW-7811Un (ebay) dongle