Installing and Setting Up the Camera Server#

First, ensure you have the camera module enabled and working:

rpicam-still -o image.jpg 

Next, create the camera service file:

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/camera.service

Create a directory for storing photos:

mkdir photos

Install required Python packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-picamera2
sudo apt install python3-websockets

Finally start the camera service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable camera.service
sudo systemctl start camera.service

You can check the status with:

sudo systemctl status camera

Or run the camera server directly with:

python3 camera_server.py