A camera for less than 10 EUR
Today I got my ESP32-CAM to work. My goal is to have cheap camera surveillance all over the house, even in cellar to read my gas counter :) The camera costs less than 10 EUR, I got it from https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32983165020.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.26655c5fja4s5J&gatewayAdapt=glo2deu Here is the beautiful thing: I connected it to the 5V and GND GPIO PINS of my Raspberry Pi: connecting pin 1 and 3 of the RasPi to 1 and 2 on the ESP Then I looked on my desktop's internet settings and found a new open WLAN: (note: with other models I have also seen the name ESP_1065BD) I connected to the camera's WLAN. It showed a question mark as there was no connection to the internet (just to the webcam): Then, on my desktop, I looked what IP address I had in the camera's WLAN: thorsten@tweedleburg:~$ ifconfig enp2s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 8c:ec:4b:26:a9:31 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) ...