Live Video Patrol

Transform the Magni 6 Mini into a surveillance bot by streaming live video from its Raspberry Pi Camera for remote monitoring.

Overview

The camera streams video over ROS2, viewable on your computer. Drive the robot to patrol an area while monitoring the feed.

Prerequasites

  • Magni 6 Mini with charged batteries (../getting_started/getting_started_mini)

  • Raspberry Pi Camera (../hardware/raspberry_pi_camera)

  • Software:

    • ROS2 on your workstation (../getting_started/workstation)

    • Camera package installed [TODO: Find out which package this is, and link it.]

  • Setup:

    • SSH session to ubuntu@10.42.0.1

    • (Optional) Robot connected via Wi-Fi (../getting_started/connecting)

    • The workstation for viewing.

Steps

  1. Power On and Connect

    • Power on the robot (../getting_started/getting_started_mini)

    • SSH into the robot:

      ssh ubuntu@10.42.0.1

    • Password: ubuntu.

    • (Optional) SSH via Local Network: ../getting_started/connecting

[TODO: Add the next steps here:

  • Launching the camera

  • Viewing video

  • Driving robot

]

Note

Lower resolution if the bandwidth is limited.