New video boot process confusion

[njordan]

So I am unclear on how we start up our video payload now. With the new auto 10-min code do we not have to login with putty like the old code? I could use a bit more clarification on the new video process.

[Skylar MSGC]

So the new Video system automatically starts up the video feed downto the ground station as soon as you start it up. It is just a bash script that is run on initialization.

The repeat_10m.py script is just a small portion of code that will start recording the video feed to the sd card on the raspberry pi. Currently how the system is set up you can record to the pi with two different methods.

The first method is to use the httpdaemon on the new operating system. To do this you open up a browser on the groundstation and type in

The other method is to put a line inside of the crontab so that everytime the pi starts up it will run the python script repeat_10m.py. This is the method that is shown in the video to set up recording on the RPi

[njordan]

Ok so the stream starts automatically, but not recording to the pi?

[Skylar MSGC]

Yes, that is correct. That is why I detailed a video on starting a python script to do that for you.

There is also the httpd method which is also described on the github page for the os

github.com/MSU-BOREALIS/VideoStreaming/blob/master/HTTPD.md