MultiCam Recording Software

software developed for testing purposes and data collection

Pre-requisites

Gstreamer/V4l2

sudo apt install -y libx264-dev libjpeg-dev \
libglib2.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev \
gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good \
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-dev \
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-gl \
v4l-utils

Python

Install Python

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install python3

Install Repository

git clone https://github.com/DeepWaterExploration/MultiCam-Record.git/
cd MultiCam-Record

Create Python Virtual Environment

python -m venv .env

Activate Python Virtual Environment

source .env/bin/activate

Install Python Packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Development

Running Program

python run.py # dev mode

Create Services for Booting on Startup

MultiCam service

[Unit]
Description=MultiCam Service
After=network.target

[Service]
User=ubuntu
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=path_to_multicam_record/MultiCam-Record/src
ExecStart=path_to_multicam_record/MultiCam-Record/.env/bin/python3 path_to_multicam_record/MultiCam-Record/src/run.py

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target