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By Benik3
#44982 Hello.

Anyone was succesfull with the hi3518 camera? They are pretty cheap and nice.
I'm thinking about using it in my micro quad, because it seems better solution then using standart camera module where is lot of conevrsion of video, which slows down the response (it converts digital to analog output, then again to digital for wifi, transmit over air, again to analog on receiver and again to digital in screen).
On bangood I saw some small camera modules even already with wi-fi, but I don't know, what chipset it use.
I would like to use ESP8266 anyway, because I will use it on quadcopter as UART bridge for controlling via smart phone...
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By GWizez
#58982 At this point, I got this cam :

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1pcs-lot-RS232-SPI-HighSpeed-JPEG-Serial-Port-CCTV-Camera-Module-SCC-1-with-video-out/1975849841.html

It use the vc0706 using Serial to control the cam, and it can download the picture using Serial or SPI, it kinda nice. So far, I used the VC0706CommTool to test if it can atleast download a picture using directly connected Serial2USB port. It actually works fine using the Serial protocole.

It's buggy when it come down to ESP8266. I use the library from Seeed Studios Camera Shield found:

http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Camera_Shield

and all the bla blah lead to this hub:

https://github.com/fredericplante/Camera_Shield_VC0706

My pin out:

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What the beast actually look like:

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But mine, I got the maker to put connector on the back side, it's better that way, I think.

I will try to make the thing work on a plain arduino mini, to see if any thing happen, tomorrow, and post feed back if any one want to know.

Then, I guess, I was planning to fuse the snapshot code with the FSBrowser example that come with the Arduino/ESP8266 distribution, making a call to the takepicture function and then sending a webpage that request that picture, instead of the common page that come with the example, or something.

By using the SPI interface at high pace, for picture fetching, It's probable that One could get a few fps out of the process, by refreshing the page, or by using a simple script, I guess.

I like the fact that, on the ESP8266, I have the flash available on board, ready to serve to save a picture for a web page. No need for SD external stuff. Any ways, for many reasons, like the Video composite Out, I think this beast is better the the Arducam mini, but for has long it does not work with ESP8266, it's meaningless to say so.

Take care!
Last edited by GWizez on Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.