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After booting for the first time, a LunaCam system should automatically resize its root partition to fill any remaining space on the SD card.

Actual resize operation is easily scripted using sfdisk and resize2fs. This script could be registered to run after first boot using systemd-run.

The stream orientation should be configurable via the admin UI. This gives users more freedom in positioning the camera.

Currently, changes to LunaCam configuration require manually editing /etc/lunacam/config.json on the Pi and restarting lunacam.service.

Eventually, it should be possible to change configuration via the Web UI. Additionally, such changes should generally not require any restart.

Proposal

Move config.json under /var, into some directory accessible by the lunacam user (which we can setup using tmpfiles.d). When the user makes a configuration change using the web UI, the server process should then:

1. reload any run-time components to observe the configuration change (e.g. reloading templates or restarting the HTTP server)
2. flush an updated config.json onto disk

Current implementation of "session reset" requires completely restarting the daemon process (because there's no easy way to force actix-web to reload itself).

However, the deamon is not being restarted as expected. The process exits by design, but it is not restarted by systemd in spite of its RestartSec=5s directive. As a result, some user must log in via SSH and manually restart the service to re-enable web access.

Support in Windows for mDNS is young, possibly there is some behavior difference?

Per our message on reddit, I am having the occasional stuttering issue. It sounds like you have looked into it a bit and determined it is not related to the load on the pi's CPU.

My initial thought was that there was too much data for my wireless network so I was going to decrease the size/resolution of the video and see if that had an impact on this issue.

It should be possible to configure some properties of the SD card image during construction, for instance:

• hostname
• default username
• SSH public key for default user

On at least one occasion, I've lost the ability to resolve DNS names on my workstation while connected to a LunaCam device using the USB gadget network. I think systemd's DHCP server is handing out bad information.

Fix is to make sure the gadget network's DHCP server is properly configured. (Full docs are here.)

Sorry in advance if the feature is already there and I didn't see it ..... But currently in the released package there is a module for camera, web interface, and both bundled together ..

Please can you implement a stream capture too ? .... Idea is to use this as a full fledged CCTV system ....

The project is working seamlessly,
But live stream only allows you to observe the feed in real-time .... if users could store the feed to a desired location locally would be great feature

Thank you