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In this video, we make an ESP32CAM Arduinobased Homemade WiFi Surveillance Camera under $20 that even runs off a battery!
As this project may seem quite technical, softwarewise I can say it sure is, though I do hope from my stepbystep tutorial you'll get yourself an ESP32CAM, be able to make your own WiFI CCTV cam for cheap, and monitor your home/environment in a "DIY" way.

In case you're curious about the camera's power consumption, the ESP32CAM draws around 0.75 Watts or less and lasts running for about 24 hours on a 4400mAh battery pack

❗ Important updates regarding uploading the code ❗
Firstly you must make sure of the following:
• Once you have downloaded & unzipped full code, copy and paste config files from the data folder to MicroSD card.
• Check that your esp32 boards library is up to date, update if it's not v2.0.2 or above.
• WiFi credentials from now on must be entered in "utils.cpp" tab and not "myConfig.h".
• Select "ESP32 Dev Module", partition scheme "Minimal SPIFFS (1.9MB OTA/190KB SPIFFS)", enable PSRAM.
❗ All of these important steps mentioned have to be followed since the recent (2022) update to this code. ❗

Thanks to GitHub repository admin @s60sc and also @nnjim for helping out not only myself with getting the camera's code's misunderstandings resolved but also for all viewers here and people who would also want to recreate this project.


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Code and more at repository by user "s60sc":
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ESP32 .json links in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/iotechbugs/esp32a...

Cam's Circuit diagram: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c128...
FTDI to ESP32CAM diagram: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IKnz...

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