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## Warnings/Issues:
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* No security, no encryption (if your network has other users, they can also connect to the server).
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* Running multiple raspistills at the same time can cause the camera to lock up.
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* The picam-based server's zoom isn't fully working.
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* The live view is semi-live, it's slow, perhaps a zombie-view more than a live-view.
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* Kivy settings don't seem to support placing restrictions on values and I haven't yet coded any sanity checks of my own.
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* Switching to scene mode Auto seems to improve brightness/contrast.
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* -ev doesn't seem to do much.
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* Negative ev sometimes doesn't seem to do much.
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* Running multiple raspistills at the same time can cause the camera to lock up (it's best not to run more than one client at a time).
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## Prerequisites
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### On your RaspberryPi - assuming Raspbian
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Install the python-twisted package (used for client/server networking).
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```
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sudo apt-get install python-twisted
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```
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PiKam inclues a server that uses the raspistill command to drive the
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camera. If you setup your Raspberry Pi so that raspistill works,
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then piKam shold work too.
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Picam requires the python image library, which can be
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installed by running the following command:
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sudo apt-get install python-imaging-tk
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```
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### On your selected Kivy client platform
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I use piKam on Linux and Android, but it would likely run on

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