Raspberry pi & CSI camera with streamEye

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Alternative streaming method to motion. This is much better solution if only purpose is streaming live video.
This method works only on Raspberry PI boards (any model) equipped with the standard CSI camera module.

The main differences:

Advantages:
-no delay on stream
-higher frame rate, at a higher resolution
-you can tweak CSI camera parameters directly from the command line
-browser will eat up less CPU at the same frame rate/resolution (it uses a pure MJPEG stream, rather than triggering every refresh from JavaScript)

Disadvantages:
-no more motion detection
-no more motion notifications
-no more pictures or movies
-no more overlaid text
-a higher network bandwidth usage

streamEye install procedure to raspbian stretch lite:

First prequisitions

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git make gcc python-picamera python3-picamera

Then streamEye

cd ~
git clone [URL]https://github.com/ccrisan/streameye.git[/URL] cd streameye
make
sudo make install

Remove motion

sudo apt-get remove motion

Or if you dont want to remove motion. Stop motion and disable service

sudo service motion stop
sudo update-rc.d motion remove

Probably you have to edit also /etc/motion/motion.conf and /etc/defaults/motion to disable daemon

streamEye starting scripts

cd ~/streameye/extras/
nano raspimjpeg.sh

raspimjpeg.sh (All options goes here also)

#!/bin/bash
# usage: raspimjpeg.py -w WIDTH -h HEIGHT -r FRAMERATE [options]
#  help: raspimjpeg.py --help     show all available options

/home/pi/streameye/extras/raspimjpeg.py -w 800 -h 600 -r 20 --quality 25 | streameye

Then save [ctrl+o] and exit [ctrl+x]

make it executable

chmod +x raspimjpeg.sh

Script for running it at service

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/raspimjpeg.service

raspimjpeg.service

[Unit]
Description=streameye script
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pi/streameye/extras/raspimjpeg.sh
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then save [ctrl+o] and exit [ctrl+x]

enable service

sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/raspimjpeg.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable raspimjpeg.service
sudo systemctl start raspimjpeg.service

You can check status

sudo systemctl status raspimjpeg.service

It should be now up and running.

 [URL]http://ip.address:8080[/URL]