hiveMonitor client

This is the application that runs on a raspberry pi, placed in a bee hive and performs the following: i) Capturing of the images ii) Recording of Videos iii) Recording of Audio sounds of the bees iv) Saving collected data on an SD card and sending to a remote server.

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• Raspberry Pi4
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module 2
• USB microphone
• Power supply

Software Requirements

• 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS(Strictly 32 bit)
• Git
• Internet Connection (Wifi)
• Python3

Installation

Step 1: Cloning the project

Go to the terminal and run the following command to clone the project of the Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/ademnea/hiveMonitor.git

When it runs successfully you will have the Raspcapture-client on the Pi After that ensure that you go to the Raspcapture folder Run the command below

cd  hiveMonitor

Step 2: Building the project

Build the project by running the commands

python build.py 
cd ..
cd hiveMonitor

This will build a version that is compatible with your raspberry Pi

Step 3: Installing dependencies

sudo ./install.sh

Step 4: Configuring the client

python setup.py

Step 5: Running

There are two scripts

• 1. capture.py - Captures the images, records both audio and video, saves them their information to a database
• 2. client.py - Sends the saved media files with the help of a database to the remote server.

Capturing

Ensure that the camera is enable otherwise the capture will not be successful You can run the command below to see the configurations for your raspberry Pi

sudo raspi-config

This is done by running the command below

python capture.py

Sending

This is effected by the command

python client.py

Final remarks

To automate the process of capturing and sending of the files cron jobs have to be set up to run both scripts