Sneek Peak at the next version of picamera2 WebUI

[monkeymademe]

For those that might be interested the next version of picamera2 WebUI is on the horizon! Its a totally new redesign on how the controls are loaded and presented. Instead of bloated html templates the settings are dynamically loaded from which camera is connected giving you the correct suite of settings depending on what camera is connected.

Biggest change is how the stream works and having a clear separation between the video stream and still configuration which will maximize the quality of your pictures!

There is also a new template for Camera - Mobile which is a touch optimized version of the UI

You can check it out here in this separate repo

https://github.com/monkeymademe/picamera2-WebUI-beta

Note:

• Why is it in a different repo... Code wise its totally new so I need to have it feature ready before I can merge it here. I don't want anyone to loose out of any features just because they pulled without looking.
• This is buggy as hell so please don't point anything out in the beta repo. Its still a work in progress. However feature requests are still welcome in this repo.

[monkeymademe]

Oh before I forget there is one more biggish change... something that bugged the hell out of me!

In older versions of the picamera2 WebUI if you rotated or changed sensor mode the raw video feed would pause and not recover you would then need to rely on either the application or browser to reload the feed for it to continue. This got quite annoying.

It does not do that anymore! However because I changed how still photos are taken there are pauses in the feed when you capture a still (this is because the video mode is turned off and changed to the still mode for capturing photos) the feed did still pause. I implemented a basic placeholder image to keep the feed alive while the mode switch happened.

So in the end... nothing will stop the feed short of a power outage or closing the app itself.