Python scripts to add pan-tilt action buttons to motionEye using an Adafruit PCA9685 servo controller
Collection of Python scripts to add pan-tilt action buttons to motionEye.
A pan-tilt bracket, equipped with two SG90 standard servos is wired to an Adafruit PCA9685 16-channel servo driver to control a Raspberry Pi Cam.
The scripts add action buttons (up/down, lef/right) to the camera overlay, in order to pan/tilt the camera. Current servo positions are stored as integer values in file vert_pos and horz_pos.
Adafruit Shield -> Raspberry Pi
- V+ -> +5V
- Vcc -> +3V
- SDA -> SDA
- SCL -> SCL
- EO -> BCM_GPIO18
- GND -> GND
Vertical servo -> Channel 0 Horizontal servo -> Channel 1
Since micro servos tend to make some noise when idle, they can be powered-off by pulling the Enable Output (EO) Pin to HIGH.
The scripts require the Adafruit PCA9685 Python library, available from:
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_PCA9685.git
cd Adafruit_Python_PCA9685
sudo python setup.py install
Files must be copied into the motionEye configuration directory, which is usually located at
/etc/motioneye
Pyhton scripts must be made executable with:
sudo chmod 755 /etc/motioneye/up_1
In case that you have multiple cameras connected, you may have to rename the files to match your camera_id
Please note that you have to adjust servo_min/servo_max value for both, the vertical and horizontal servo.