A beginner needs a little help getting startet

[derletztename]

Hello
I am an engineer developing an application (still a prototype) with a Raspberry Pi, where I need to get the video stream from the Raspberry Pi Cam directly to a little screen. The System should do nothing else then streaming the video live from the Pi Cam to the screen after booting. As I am new to Linux I have no clue how to even start.
Is there someone who could help me with this somehow?

[pepedog]

I think you want openmax on the pi. Create a new user and log in to it.
Once you figure out command string, create .bashrc file and paste it there.
Check it works by logging out then in as that user.

Once that works you can be pointed to where it boots straight to user.
It's started btw, not startet.

[derletztename]

Thank you for the answer.
I managed to set up the system, updated it, got the camera running and set up an non-root account (which included a lot of reading and trial and error).

After reading: "OpenMAX is an extremely difficult API to work with - if you have any sense you will walk away right now." - I am a little bit afraid of trying to get this going. Isn't there an easier way?

If I understand everything right, I can use the pre-installed commands for the pi cam and put them in the .bashrc file where they get to action once the system starts.

And how do I get the system starting with my choosen user account? Or is this to be answered after I managed to get the other stuff working?

[SeBO]

Autlogin: http://askubuntu.com/questions/8467/aut ... no-xserver ?

Check it - maybe it will help

[pepedog]

Let's just say the username created is called alarm
Put the command you want to run in /home/alarm/.profile
Log in as alarm, did it run?
Now to go straight from boot to this

mkdir /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d
Now create this file
nano /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf
and paste these contents in
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin alarm --noclear %I 38400 Linux

[derletztename]

Thank you
I'll try this