Loved the video, thank you for sharing your project and code, you mentioned that you are looking at streaming video, so I have joined your channel in the hope of seeing more thanks, Bob in the UK
Thank you very much :) I did look into the video streaming and I know that in theory its possible but did not had the time to dive deep into it. Been very busy with work, but have some nice project coming (soon I hope) that I have been working on. I did test some of the streaming options in this video ruclips.net/video/wmH6TewY3YQ/видео.html
I love the ESP32-CAM. I am researching how to connect ESP32-CAMs via wifi or ESPNOW such that several cameras can capture an image and transmit to a central ESP32-CAM so that it can save the photo to the SD card. This would give a central location to collect photos from an area. Like a animal refuge area, several trail cams collecting images and sending to a single SD card. Is that a project you might take on for a video?
Awesome project ❤ going to try and make a small pocket camera for a paramotor to see the remaining fuel in flight. Thanks for sharing and posting a great tutorial
Hi, first thank you very much for your kind words :) I finally managed to get an image from the camera directly to the screen, I'm just lacking some time to make a video on it. so if you want to make one with just one board .... I hope to make a video on it soon :)
Sounds cool, I never used one of thus, I thought of ordering one. I'm working on a new video, showing streaming mjpeg and finding the stream on the local network. just been busy, so it takes me time to get it done :)
@@talofer99 Id like to see that! I ended up using ruclips.net/video/aIxaR6legnw/видео.html for a live video stream. Only downside is that it uses the watch as an access point, would be nice to just find it on a general network ^.^ is also gonna be my next project xD
@@smokeysky cool, I was guessing some one did something like that, I wonder how it's done will look into the code there. I still did not find the time (super busy) to make the video - the camera is on the table for over 3 weeks now :)
Nice, video I need to make something similar I want camera to wakeup once a month take a shot of power consuption and send a message to my phone, bonus is od I can make it use SIM card for internet connection instead home wifi and more importantly it needs to support deep sleep mode.
Thank you. Its an interesting Idea, I already got them both working one the same board ... so can stream the image to the screen and make a door bell will be super cool :)
Thank you very much. I tried it in the house, and I got about 6 meters. Didn't try it in any longer distance it would be interesting to test. From doing a quick read people are talking about long ranges "possible" with esp-now.
Wow, this project is super cool! Will try this out soon. Btw just a quick question - approximately what was the maximum size of the image you were able to transmit? Would it be able to handle say 200-300 KB images? Thanks again for this interesting project.
Thank you very much :) The espnow transmit limit is 250 Bytes, place some CRC on top and part number I used 240 Bytes for the actual image data. So in order to transmit 240K (to make it easy) you will need a 1K packages ....so it's doable - not practical. I got on my table the setup with the display connected to the esp32 camera board - which took me some time to figure out - so it steams the camera to the screen. got to find time to make a video on it as well.
@@talofer99 cool, thanks for clarifying that. I'll give it a try and see how it goes. The boards will be pretty close to each other. Not sure if that helps with reliable transmission. Another option would be bluetooth but I won't bet on reliability of bluetooth on cheap devices though. Even a wired connection to send the pictures across to another ESP32 will be interesting :)
Sorry for the late reply. I did try it with Serial, not sure id I mentioned it in the video, and it was slower . This is not surprising since the data rate of transfer is 2.4ghz .... so even if you get half the speed, its way faster then UART. And I would go with BLE and not Classic Bluetooth, and I think it might work, I used to upload code using BT few years back, and no issues.
@@talofer99 Oh ok cool! I'll give it a try with classic BT. I'll just need to check how reliably it can connect, send every time. I remember I had once read a post where someone was able to upload code to esp32 at 922190bps. Again this can only be confirmed once I try it out. I am hoping to make some time for testing both the methods - classic BT and Serial at 922190bps! :) Thanks once again for the ideas and the tips.
Awesome project I subscribed. I really want to make a system in which the images captured by the esp32 cam will be transferred to a separate esp32 board and then shown on a screen. but it should be a wired circuit so that it could also work without wifi. please make a video on it.
@@talofer99 I have no problem with the speed but can you make a separate video in which you make it step by step because I am a beginner. It would really help a lot 🙂
Great video! I have the same arduino board for the display. Would you be able to confirm what pin goes to what? This is the bit that i am struggling with. Thanks.
Thank you :) The SPI pins are GPIO 23 is the mosi GPIO 18 is the clock GPIO 05 is the SS You can see the pinout here www.mischianti.org/2021/02/21/esp32-wemos-lolin32-high-resolution-pinout-and-specs/ For the rest of the pins there is the table from the example : * ESP32 various dev board : TFT_CS: 5, TFT_DC: 27, TFT_RST: 33, TFT_BL: 22 Hope it helps out .... if not let me know :)
Nice video. However, can you make another video showing how to display what's the ESP32 CAM is seeing with only 1 display? Instead of streaming from another ESP32
Hey, this video was very helpful. I am currently working on a similar project, but I dont use a monitor. Instead I have to send the photo which was saved as a SPIFF via a telegram bot to a telegram chat. Do you know if this is possible? Could you maybe tell me which telegram bot sending command I need in this case?
Hi, I never tried to send something in telegram with esp. I know the image can be sent - but not sure how to do it on telegram. If it possible, you are only a google search a way from it :)
hello! very nice and unique tutorial, Thanks for the effort you put into making the video. i'm having some trouble writing the code for a similar application, can we get the code please it would make my life way easier.
Hi, Thank you very much. Sure, it actually made me finally upload the code to git, here is a link github.com/talofer99/ESP32CAM-Capture-and-send-image-over-esp-now
esp-now is using the wifi.... but in close network. It can be done over wifi, the camera library has an example of making the image available over http. It can be done over BLE as well, it will probably be the same speed as esp-now I done it also via UART but it was way too slow.
@@talofer99 ya, there are some body did it, I can‘t copy it works, actually just noise, almost can see any nothing. BTW. is the Payload limited to 250 bytes obstacle the stream here?
@@summerfun6114 if you refer to stream the image to a screen ? then no - there is no real limit here. If you refer to the ESPNOW, then yes, you can barely get 1-2 images per second.
Sir I have a problem to run the system correctly. The only difference about hardware is display. I've changed the display class settings into the device's that I'm using. Should I change another thing?? The image is seen from the display but it isn't fill all of it and it is meaningless.
@@awaagrikh8331 If you want to be on the safe side and in a better chance to recover the file, I would got with a simple CRC16 for each package. add 2 bytes in the end for the CRC.
not on esp-now with its limits. you can with setting the unit as AP or stream it to the net. I made a video on this ruclips.net/video/wmH6TewY3YQ/видео.html
@@SolutionFinder I sow something like that done with setting the esp32 cam as AP and then streaming to another esp with screen. I'm sure that if you google the description you will find it.
I can see you asked about the reset of the unit in the notification but can not see the actual comment So make sure you set the Flash Frequency to 40 not 80 and then upload the code.
Since the pay load limit per messahe is 254 byte I think its not really doable. I seen a project when the camera esp32 was acting as AP and the other unit showed the stream.
@@talofer99 is there any way to stream a video from esp cam without wifi? And the method you are talking about, how can it be done is there any reference?
Sorry, I never really create one, unless its super complicated. If you need to know how to connect the screen, you can watch it on this video ruclips.net/video/NK0Sx49XQdI/видео.html
@@talofer99actually I need to know how to wire a push button with the ESP32-CAM because I connected the button to the RX pin, but the ESP still can't capture a photo using the push button.
Loved the video, thank you for sharing your project and code, you mentioned that you are looking at streaming video, so I have joined your channel in the hope of seeing more thanks, Bob in the UK
Thank you very much :)
I did look into the video streaming and I know that in theory its possible but did not had the time to dive deep into it.
Been very busy with work, but have some nice project coming (soon I hope) that I have been working on.
I did test some of the streaming options in this video
ruclips.net/video/wmH6TewY3YQ/видео.html
I love the ESP32-CAM. I am researching how to connect ESP32-CAMs via wifi or ESPNOW such that several cameras can capture an image and transmit to a central ESP32-CAM so that it can save the photo to the SD card. This would give a central location to collect photos from an area. Like a animal refuge area, several trail cams collecting images and sending to a single SD card. Is that a project you might take on for a video?
I done part of it in this video
ruclips.net/video/wmH6TewY3YQ/видео.html
All that is left is to save it.
Awesome project ❤ going to try and make a small pocket camera for a paramotor to see the remaining fuel in flight.
Thanks for sharing and posting a great tutorial
Hi, first thank you very much for your kind words :)
I finally managed to get an image from the camera directly to the screen, I'm just lacking some time to make a video on it.
so if you want to make one with just one board .... I hope to make a video on it soon :)
This is great. I'm trying to save the images on the SD-card of the receiver. Instead of using the SD-card as a buffer I want to use SPIFFS.
I was not able to get the spiff working on the esp32-cam.
If you do get it to work let me know.
I see this video is pretty new :D
I'm going to mess around with this to get a picture on my Lilygo T-watch 2020 V1 from one of those esp cams.
Thanks!
Sounds cool, I never used one of thus, I thought of ordering one.
I'm working on a new video, showing streaming mjpeg and finding the stream on the local network. just been busy, so it takes me time to get it done :)
@@talofer99 Id like to see that!
I ended up using ruclips.net/video/aIxaR6legnw/видео.html for a live video stream.
Only downside is that it uses the watch as an access point, would be nice to just find it on a general network ^.^
is also gonna be my next project xD
@@smokeysky cool, I was guessing some one did something like that, I wonder how it's done will look into the code there.
I still did not find the time (super busy) to make the video - the camera is on the table for over 3 weeks now :)
impressive, doing this with ESP now
Thank you very much :)
Nice Work , you helped me a lot in my project !!!! .
Thank you very much
Glad to hear that!
What are you building ?
Nice, video I need to make something similar I want camera to wakeup once a month take a shot of power consuption and send a message to my phone, bonus is od I can make it use SIM card for internet connection instead home wifi and more importantly it needs to support deep sleep mode.
Thank you very much.
Sounds like a doable project.
I'm sure someone did something close enough for you to copy it
Nice work and clear presentation- thanks!
Thank you very much :)
If add a speaker, it will be nice door bell :3 ty for video
Thank you.
Its an interesting Idea, I already got them both working one the same board ... so can stream the image to the screen and make a door bell will be super cool :)
@@talofer99 i would like to see the result, and make it ^^ would be supercool ))
Hi, this video is just amazing, have u tested it long distance?
Thank you very much.
I tried it in the house, and I got about 6 meters.
Didn't try it in any longer distance it would be interesting to test.
From doing a quick read people are talking about long ranges "possible" with esp-now.
@@talofer99 i saw a french guy experimenting with this. really amazing, i am gonna try long distance with your video. thanks a lot.
@@joesalas3397 let me know how it went :)
Wow, this project is super cool! Will try this out soon. Btw just a quick question - approximately what was the maximum size of the image you were able to transmit? Would it be able to handle say 200-300 KB images? Thanks again for this interesting project.
Thank you very much :)
The espnow transmit limit is 250 Bytes, place some CRC on top and part number I
used 240 Bytes for the actual image data.
So in order to transmit 240K (to make it easy) you will need a 1K packages ....so it's doable - not practical.
I got on my table the setup with the display connected to the esp32 camera board - which took me some time to figure out - so it steams the camera to the screen.
got to find time to make a video on it as well.
@@talofer99 cool, thanks for clarifying that. I'll give it a try and see how it goes. The boards will be pretty close to each other. Not sure if that helps with reliable transmission. Another option would be bluetooth but I won't bet on reliability of bluetooth on cheap devices though.
Even a wired connection to send the pictures across to another ESP32 will be interesting :)
Sorry for the late reply.
I did try it with Serial, not sure id I mentioned it in the video, and it was slower .
This is not surprising since the data rate of transfer is 2.4ghz .... so even if you get half the speed, its way faster then UART.
And I would go with BLE and not Classic Bluetooth, and I think it might work, I used to upload code using BT few years back, and no issues.
@@talofer99 Oh ok cool! I'll give it a try with classic BT. I'll just need to check how reliably it can connect, send every time. I remember I had once read a post where someone was able to upload code to esp32 at 922190bps. Again this can only be confirmed once I try it out. I am hoping to make some time for testing both the methods - classic BT and Serial at 922190bps! :) Thanks once again for the ideas and the tips.
@@rw4833 cool, if you do get it to work - let me know :)
Awesome project I subscribed. I really want to make a system in which the images captured by the esp32 cam will be transferred to a separate esp32 board and then shown on a screen. but it should be a wired circuit so that it could also work without wifi. please make a video on it.
Thank you very much :)
I tried it and you can see it in the end of the video - its possible, but very slow.
@@talofer99 I have no problem with the speed but can you make a separate video in which you make it step by step because I am a beginner. It would really help a lot 🙂
Sound like an interesting idea.
@@talofer99 👍👍please try you are awesome 🚀🚀
Awesome example, very useful :)
Thank you very much.
Great video! I have the same arduino board for the display. Would you be able to confirm what pin goes to what? This is the bit that i am struggling with. Thanks.
Thank you :)
The SPI pins are
GPIO 23 is the mosi
GPIO 18 is the clock
GPIO 05 is the SS
You can see the pinout here
www.mischianti.org/2021/02/21/esp32-wemos-lolin32-high-resolution-pinout-and-specs/
For the rest of the pins there is the table from the example :
* ESP32 various dev board : TFT_CS: 5, TFT_DC: 27, TFT_RST: 33, TFT_BL: 22
Hope it helps out .... if not let me know :)
Nice video. However, can you make another video showing how to display what's the ESP32 CAM is seeing with only 1 display? Instead of streaming from another ESP32
I did not think its possible, but sow something like it few days back. I will try to find the time to try it out, thanks for the idea.
@@talofer99 thanks for the consideration too. XD
Hey, this video was very helpful. I am currently working on a similar project, but I dont use a monitor. Instead I have to send the photo which was saved as a SPIFF via a telegram bot to a telegram chat. Do you know if this is possible? Could you maybe tell me which telegram bot sending command I need in this case?
Hi, I never tried to send something in telegram with esp.
I know the image can be sent - but not sure how to do it on telegram.
If it possible, you are only a google search a way from it :)
hello! very nice and unique tutorial, Thanks for the effort you put into making the video. i'm having some trouble writing the code for a similar application, can we get the code please it would make my life way easier.
Hi,
Thank you very much.
Sure, it actually made me finally upload the code to git, here is a link
github.com/talofer99/ESP32CAM-Capture-and-send-image-over-esp-now
@@talofer99 thanks
So, looks like ESP-NOW protocol has not enough transfer speed for streaming video from ESP32 cam, right?
I agree a d its not really the speed as the limitation on the package size.
is it possible to send picture via ble/ wifi to esp32??
esp-now is using the wifi.... but in close network.
It can be done over wifi, the camera library has an example of making the image available over http.
It can be done over BLE as well, it will probably be the same speed as esp-now
I done it also via UART but it was way too slow.
Hi, great project. how about use ESP32CAM + TFT, and leave out ESP32? and in this case, is it OK for one ESP32 to handle more than one ESP32CAM? Thx.
It's possible, been done by others, I'm working on trying it with the screen in the video, juts was not successful, and got no time lately :)
@@talofer99 Thank you for reply. have a nice day.
@@summerfun6114 I hope to get it running , it will be a cool project of a camera with screen for the kid :)
@@talofer99 ya, there are some body did it, I can‘t copy it works, actually just noise, almost can see any nothing. BTW. is the Payload limited to 250 bytes obstacle the stream here?
@@summerfun6114 if you refer to stream the image to a screen ? then no - there is no real limit here.
If you refer to the ESPNOW, then yes, you can barely get 1-2 images per second.
Sir I have a problem to run the system correctly. The only difference about hardware is display. I've changed the display class settings into the device's that I'm using. Should I change another thing?? The image is seen from the display but it isn't fill all of it and it is meaningless.
What display do you use ?
What code do you use ?
@@talofer99 I used exactly same code as yours and the display is st7789 240x240. Thank you for quick response🙏🏻
You could not use the same code (exactly) since it will not work.
What are the changes you made in the code ?
@@talofer99 I’ve just changed the display class part of the code
@@berkeates4639so it should work.
maybe try different library.
Hi, do your code have mechanism like CRC check to verify the file is not corrupted at the receiver end?
No, it does not have CRC mechanism in it.
Yes that means that the file can be corrupted on the transfer.
@@talofer99 what do you suggest for archiving this? Calculate CRC and send it in the last packet?
@@awaagrikh8331 If you want to be on the safe side and in a better chance to recover the file, I would got with a simple CRC16 for each package. add 2 bytes in the end for the CRC.
@@talofer99 So it is either calculate cRC for the whole file and resent everything again or each packet CRC
@@awaagrikh8331 yes, that's basically it.
Can we do streaming..?
not on esp-now with its limits.
you can with setting the unit as AP or stream it to the net.
I made a video on this
ruclips.net/video/wmH6TewY3YQ/видео.html
@@talofer99 I have esp32watch, I want streaming esp32cam video in my watch.
@@SolutionFinder I sow something like that done with setting the esp32 cam as AP and then streaming to another esp with screen.
I'm sure that if you google the description you will find it.
HI, GREAT. just not clear where filled the MAC address? thanks.
No need, there is an active scan on the camera, looking for the other unit.
look at the Camera.ino and find ScanAndConnectToSlave()
@@talofer99 Thank you a lot. much better now. the display just shown "SYSTEM STARTED" ， no picture?
@@saydiy1528 the camera needs or button press or UART command.
I explain this in the video.
I can see you asked about the reset of the unit in the notification but can not see the actual comment
So make sure you set the Flash Frequency to 40 not 80 and then upload the code.
@@talofer99 Thank you. I typed p and got some image shown (I used ILI9341 cause of can't test out GC9A01), still the button never trig cam.
cool project
Thank you :)
Can I use esp8266 instead of esp32
for the camera I do not think so, for the screen I can guess its doable.
Awesome!!
Thank you :)
can you stream video over esp now? from esp cam to esp32?
Since the pay load limit per messahe is 254 byte I think its not really doable.
I seen a project when the camera esp32 was acting as AP and the other unit showed the stream.
@@talofer99 is there any way to stream a video from esp cam without wifi? And the method you are talking about, how can it be done is there any reference?
@@omumbare8582 Not that I know of.
I can not find the link will try to find it.
I'm sure if you google it, you can find it.
can i get a diagram of your project?
Sorry, I never really create one, unless its super complicated.
If you need to know how to connect the screen, you can watch it on this video
ruclips.net/video/NK0Sx49XQdI/видео.html
@@talofer99actually I need to know how to wire a push button with the ESP32-CAM because I connected the button to the RX pin, but the ESP still can't capture a photo using the push button.
@@glennimmanuel9338 not sure what code you used. but if you initiated the serial this might not work.
Awesome
Thank you very much :)
It must've taken you a lot of time ??!
It took me a few good evenings :)