TL-MR 3020 as a webcam server

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Took me a while, but I’m now rather confident that the issues I was having with the MR3020 as a mjpg-streamer powered streaming webcam server are related to the camera(s) used, not (only) to the tiny box. As you can see below, “only” in daylight the images gets distorted:

As of now I assume that the framerate reported by the camera is responsible for this, as that cam is reporting only 30 fps for all resolutions. It’s working nicely on a SheevaPlug with full-blown Debian, but Sheeva is a different hardware to the MR3020 (and 3 to 5 times as expensive per box); I might try a Dockstar as the host for this cam, but time will tell.

Just FTR, with a quickly ordered Logitech C270 HD, the MR320 is serving just nicely as a streaming webcam server (cam reports 5 and 10 fps for 1280×720, I choose 5, which is sufficient for now):

6 thoughts on “TL-MR 3020 as a webcam server”

  1. Hi,
    ich habe mir für knapp 55 Euro den Android4 Mini-PC bestellt. Sollte problemlos als Streaming-Server funktionieren. Werde mal darüber berichten, sobald das Teil da ist.
    Viele Grüße
    H.S.

  2. Some really useful links on the MR 3020 with OpenWRT — useful, as it runs bleading edge trunk, therefore you end up with this every other day:

    Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-
 *      kernel (= 3.3.8-1-a86461e0e63f5b1725b4d664fb2d35f5) *   kernel (= 3.3.8-
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-usb-storage.
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-
 *      kernel (= 3.3.8-1-a86461e0e63f5b1725b4d664fb2d35f5) *   kernel (= 3.3.8-
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-fs-ext4.

    Main OpenWRT page: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020
    V1.7 ethernet issue is said to be resolved since yesterday(!): https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/32093
    Some collected hints (/ to external storage, how to upgrade to a current version): http://wolfgang.reutz.at/2012/04/12/openwrt-on-tp-link-mr3020-as-infopoint-with-local-webserver/
    And another page with hints on exterrnal root, mjpg-streamer and stuff: http://www.purinux.org/blog/2012/02/

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