Birdhouse webcam project 3 (2025)

Hardware used

This is almost the same as the first project. The only difference is that I could use the electricity from our new garden house. So I did not need the powerbank anymore and worry about it being drained. I now leave the Raspberry Pi and the camera on all the time. Below I shortly describe the differences with the first project.

Setting up the Raspberry Pi

I used again the Raspberry Pi Imager to prepare the put Raspbian OS on the SD card. Note that the RPi-Cam-Web-Interface requires a legacy version of Raspbian (Bullseye-v11-32b or lower), since the newer versions of Raspbian do not support the legacy camera software (raspimjpeg). From there you can follow the instructions on the RPi-Cam-Web-Interface website.

RPi-Cam-Web-Interface

The awesome RPi-Cam-Web-Interface has a motion detection setup, such that it automatically records videos (or images) whenever there is activity in the birdhouse. I have set this up such that during the day (and at dawn and dusk) the motion detection is on. At any time, we can always watch the live feed.

Videos on Youtube

I try to regulary post some videos on my channel.