General discussion • Bee Monitoring Setup Advice Needed!

Hello!

My University lab is planning a project to monitor very small bees for several months. We are using multiples of the Zero2W and M3 NoIR/Regular Wide to film them in daylight and constant darkness. Our goals are as follows:

- Motion-capture: Film the bees when they start moving, stop filming when they stop moving for more than a few seconds
- File storage: Send motion capture footage to OneDrive cloud periodically and delete sent over footage from local SD card
- Timing: Only film certain bees for daylight hours

Motioneye would have done all these things, but it doesn't support libcamera, so we are at a loss. Does anyone know of solid, open-source alternatives? We are also open to using basic scripts instead of a GUI to set these up. If motion capture is not a possibility, we might just do a time-lapse. In such a case, we'll still need to only film for a certain period of time and send the data elsewhere before deleting it locally. Any advice would be much appreciated!!!

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by e.cruz.uky — Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:02 pm

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