Beaglebone Black

Materials:

Beaglebone Black Industrial

Logitech C545 webcam

Steps:

Installed Debian Jessie via a netinstall from Elinux.org BeagleBoardDebian. Used serial port. Migrated to Devuan. Installed Zoneminder using jessie-backports according to official install guide.

Industrial BBB was chosen, in the hopes of using it as a dashcam under winter conditions.

Camera works plugged into USB. Logitech camera works under the following settings

• Local
• MJPG
• 960 x 720
• PAL

Total load with camera, gets about 960x720 3FPS, with .7 load on the server, in monitor mode. Making this a potential external ZM server.

YUYV works with resolution of 320x240, but no higher. MJPG is able to get 320x240, 640x480, and 960x720.

This being an SBC, there is a additional interfaces, expansions (I2C, GPIO) to use in addition to the camera itself. Sensors can be added easily.

Note: I ran into problems using this BBB with a long (>25 ft) ethernet cable. Network functions were slow, or failing. This could be a problem, if you were to use these as substitutes for cameras. It may have been my particular model (BBB Element14 industrial).