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Simple Raspberry Pi Video Recorder

Installation:

To use this simple code for recording video with Raspberry Pi, you just need to install two libraries: opencv and picamera:

pip install picamera2
pip install opencv-python

If you encounter the following error while installing either of these libraries on Raspberry Pi:

$ pip install Picamera2
error: externally-managed-environment

× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install
    python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
    install.
    
    If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package,
    create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv.
    Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make
    sure you have python3-full installed.
    
    For more information visit http://rptl.io/venv

note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.

There are several solutions provided in this link. But in summary, you can use pipx. For example to install pipx, run:

sudo apt install pipx

and to install picamera2 using pipx:

pipx install picamera2

Or append --break-system-packages at the end of the regular pip command:

pip install picamera2 --break-system-packages

Usage:

After running the program by python cam.py or python3 cam.py, press s to start recording. Press e to end the recording and save the video, and press q to exit the program.

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