How to change the path for saving videos/photos?

[zogthegreat]

Hi everyone!

I just setup raspi-cam-srv and I'm impressed how easy it was to install. However, I would like to send the saved videos and photos to my server. The reason for this is that I'm using it as a security camera to catch workers who have been entering my apartment without permission and stealing little things. If they notice the camera and steal it with the Pi Zero that I'm using, they won't get the data and I can still go to the police.

I found the default path in the "Server Settings" menu, but it is grayed out and I can't find a way to change it. I want to set it to this:

//192.168.2.23/shares/pi

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks!

[signag]

Hi
thank you for this post.
To be honest, when I was starting this project, my knowledge about Flask was quite limited.
From what I had seen in the documentation and examples, I got the impression that media to be presented in the Web UI had to be located underneath the "static" folder.
In the meantime, I learned that this is the most convenient location but that Flask is not restricted to this location.

Anyway, the static folder is not ideal because installation resources are under the same root with user resources (photos, videos).

So, I am thinking about making the Path for Photos/Videos, which is shown for information in the Settings, configurable so that a different location can be chosen.

However, I am not sure whether photos and videos should be directly stored on a non-local resource because of reliability and performance.
If this is required I would prefer to store locally and transfer (or move) later.

There are several tools which do this automatically and in the background (e.g. rsync).

You could use such a tool right now.

[zogthegreat]

Hi @signag , thanks for the reply!

Rsync is actually a good idea, I'll give it a try. What I was thinking was to edit the install script. I downloaded the script with wget and went through it. At the top of the script, the path is specified:

echo
echo "=========================================="
echo "=== raspiCamSrv Automated Installer    ==="
echo "=========================================="

USER_NAME="$USER"
INSTALL_ROOT="$HOME/prg"
REPO_URL="https://github.com/signag/raspi-cam-srv.git"
SERVICE_PORT=5000
HOSTNAME="$(hostname)"
IS_LITE=false

What I'm going to try to do is change the "INSTALL_ROOT="$HOME/prg"" to the path that I want, i.e. /mnt/share, which is where I mounted my smb share. I'll give both options a try and let you know which work best, although right now my vote is on rsync.