Hi,
We have been using an MKR 1400 3g GSM board + sdcard proto shield to collect remote data and upload to an FTP server which works really well (we upload about 5MB per day). We now wish to collect images from a remote site using an MKR1400 board + Ethernet Shield + IP camera - the images are not very big (480 x 320).
The idea is to get an image from the IP camera and save it to the SD card (as backup) and upload to an FTP server. In between collecting images the MKR 1400 would be put in to low power mode to conserve power as is done with the remote data collection project mentioned above.
Is this approach feasible and if so is there any any example code (IP Camera comms) to get me started.
It must be doable. Reading about Your first, well working project, I'm sure You didn't find that code in the drugstore. Procced the same way as during this proj.
What is the difficulty?
I spose the difficulty i'm thinking of is just the general getting the image from the IP camera to the SD card side of things as i haven't worked with IP cameras or Ethernet before with arduino. In comparison the above mentioned monitoring project was relatively easy as it just involves storing and uploading small txt files (max 200k at a time) which i assumed was much easier to deal with even though a small image file would not be much larger than this. I have also never really worked with collecting image files either using arduino, i have done it with a raspberry pie using python but the raspberry pi is much more powerful but also uses much more power so the plan if possible is to replace some of our raspberry pi based systems with Arduino based systems in our remote battery/solar backed locations.
Anyway i have an MKR board and Ethernet shield arriving so will have a go. So any tips, thoughts, code examples on this would be much appreciated.