Recommend an Arducam Camera for me…?

[jwainwright87]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for someone to recommend a camera for me to use with a Raspberry Pi 4.

To explain my setup, I run this facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nestboxlive and specialise in live streaming inside nest boxes. As most you have probably found, I’m tired of waiting round for Raspberry Pi to release a new camera module with increased specs so I’m looking for alternatives.

I have had a look on the Arducam website and found many options including the MIPI range, but I am unsure if it will work with my setup.

Ideally I’d like to be running 1080p 60fps. At the moment the v2 camera is running in full FOV at a resolution of 1440 x 1080.

I need a camera that has an IR cut switch as I am using a standard CCTV cut filter at the moment that is triggered via a python script to a motor driver, which is opening and closing the IR filter.

The camera must also be able to pipe raw h264 video into ffmpeg without re-encoding.

Would be grateful if anyone could make a recommendation.

[bin]

Hello,

Arducam has imx219 with IRCUT camera getting it from

https://www.uctronics.com/arducam-noir-8mp-sony-imx219-camera-module-with-motorized-ir-cut-filter-m12-mount-ls1820-lens-for-raspberry-pi.html

Arducam MIPI_Camera library supports H264 1080P30fps encoding. You can get it from https://github.com/ArduCAM/MIPI_Camera/tree/master/RPI

Let me know if you need more help.

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