Airfield free webcam open source software

[Nicolas Massart]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share that I have released our airfield webcam software for free (and open source) if you are interested. It's very tailored to our needs for now, but as it's open source you are free to suggest improvement or ask for features (will do my best to deliver).

The software: https://github.com/CaenFalaisePlaneurs/aero-pi-cam

Why another cam software?

We had hard constraints:

- no reliable internet on field (4G) so can't stream and bandwidth matters

- wanted to integrate METAR/TAF for free

- needed to reuse the same Raspberry Pi already used for other things (did not want to flash an OS just for the cam)

- wanted to have full control on software (Open source)

- be able to create anything we imagine 

You can see it in action at https://www.caenfalaiseplaneurs.fr/fr/cam

Can't wait for your feedback,
Nico.