Controlling your camera from a web page
In this section, we will look ar how to control our camera from a web page in PHP and run a web server in the Raspberry Pi. We will need the following to run PHP files and web server:
Running the Apache server on Raspberry Pi
Installing PHP software
For the web page, for controlling we will have to create our PHP files in the following path: /var/www/html
, for instance we need to edit the index.php
file, and copy the following lines.
The following HTML file includes PHP:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Control Camera</title> </head> <body>
Here we define the function to perform action for taking the picture:
<form action="on.php"> <button type="submit">Taking the picture</button> </form>
Here we define the action to taken if motion detected:
<form action="off.php"> <button type="submit">Motion<...