picamctrl

A project created so that I can control an RS485 camera using PELCO-D protocol from my Raspberry pi.

What you'll need

• A Raspberry Pi (old as you like, as long as it has a 40 pin GPIO)
• An RS485 HAT. I spent a whole £12 on this: https://thepihut.com/products/rs485-pizero by AB Electronics
• Python3 (should be there already)
• pip (apt install python3-pip)
• pyserial (pip3 install pyserial)
• flask (pip3 install flask)
• flask_SQLAlchemy (pip3 install flask_sqlalchemy)

How to install

• clone this repository
• connect the RS485 cable to the port on the HAT
• run python3 run.py
• go to a browser http://:5000

It's a bit of a mess

• Still loads of comments
• Touch and mouse both work though