ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:43 am #75217 Should such a cam, see link: http://www.watterott.com/de/OV2640-2Mp- ... d-JPEG-OUT or https://botland.com.pl/kamery-do-arduin ... 60fps.html
work with the ESP Board?
(2x10 pins)

I ask because I cant find a pining or example.

And in relation to ArduCam i often find modules like this and they have a different pining (1x8 pins): http://www.arducam.com/knowledge-base/e ... utorial-2/

Will the first cam work with the ESPs and how to connect this ?

I am searching for a cam for the ESP which has a minimum height and so I was thinking of the first linked cam and maybe to install the board lieing and rotate the cam with the flexcable 90degrees.
Ideal would be 10-15mm height

- Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:58 am #75219 Although the ESP8266 is my go to module for many things, in my opinion, it is not a good vehicle for camera based applications, particularly if you are interested in video. It does not really have enough memory and processing power for that.

Have you considered using a Raspberry Pi Zero-W instead. This has a dedicated camera interface and a built in video GPU which can make light work of video up to HD resolutions and still images of even higher resolution. The camera module which plugs into it is very thin. There is also lots of video applications to use for this platform.

- Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:49 pm #75220 Thanks for your answer. The RPi can also be an option but ESP/NodeMCU/Wemos is already running in my project and should be extended with a cam.
The requirements are low, no video stream, only some picture captures on demand are necessary.

How about the cam, are the pins and how they are named normal for usage as a cam at the esp (sdata, vsync, scl , pclk, xclk, href, d..., ...) ? The pins on the second cam are named different (mosi, miso, scl, sda, sclk, csn, ...)

Thanks for hits...

- Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:59 am #75230 Camera modules come with different interfaces like

CSI-2 - like on Raspberry, high speed needs special interface support not on esp8266
Parallel - 8 bit data bus plus clk together with SCCB control
SPI
Serial

The parallel i/f type is pretty challenging for esp8266 due to the number of GPIO required and probably needs extra hardware.

SPI would be good but not very common

Serial are common and cheap. Easy to interface to but will be slowest. OK if you are taking occasional low res shots.