Lazy much? Blind control to major tom... I can now control the blind/shades on my deck from my phone! With a little bit of hot glue, a couple wood screws and some pieces of 2x4 ends I had lying around.
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Hi @DJ, do you think that it would be possible to use the ESP32-cam model (ESP32-cam) and in particular have access to the camera with ARC? They are as cheap as the 'classic' ones and could be used for small surveillance bots
Unfortunately not. The camera for that device is 1 frame per second. It’s just not worth the effort
Oh, I didn't know. Thanks for the info.
There’s additional discussion around the esp32 and it’s low frame rate camera here: https://synthiam.com/Community/HackEvents/ESP32-Connect-to-EZ-Builder-18281
Yeah, it's really not that great of a camera. I found a esp-32 board with camera on a special sale ($6.97) awhile back and figured what the heck give it a try for that price! It was pretty bad, in fact I thought the camera module was bad and ordered another from Ebay. Same thing, not very clear. If you cut the small glue mark on the outside edge of the lens you can focus it to what you need. I did that and then set it up to monitor my 3D printer to watch it from a cell phone. It worked out great for that. Although you see the printer head jumping the rest of the picture is super clear, if that makes sense?
Hope this might help someone.
Good feedback herrball.
it would just be such a poor user experience that I can’t support such a poorly implemented product. We’d have so many people asking why their camera experience was sooooo bad - and that’s not good for us