Bookworm — the new version of Raspberry Pi OS (article)

[Jason]

This article from the people at Raspberry Pi details the latest version of Raspberry Pi. There are many behind-the-scenes changes but a few you will likely notice like the inclusion of Network Manager for controlling network connection as with most graphical Linux distributions.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/?utm_source=pocket_saves

Do any of the changes pique your interest to try it out? Or what do you think of the new changes generally?

[ssfc72]

I currently only use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a surveillance camera, using a usb webcam.
The RPi 4 has to be run with the MotionEye OS and not the RPi OS.
The MotionEye surveillance webcam has been running continuously without problem for a number of years, now.

I think if I was to get back to playing with a SBC (single board computer), I might go with another brand that uses an ARM processor or a RISC processor.
These boards seem to have surpassed the performance of the latest RPI 5 and are just as inexpensive.

[Jason]

Oh, I hadn't realized (or more likely, forgotten) that MotionEye is/has an OS. That's cool. I'm guessing that you're viewing it live so it is streamed to another device but does it do recording, too? Or is streamed to another device for recording?

[buster]

"The RPi 4 has to be run with the MotionEye OS and not the RPi OS.
The MotionEye surveillance webcam has been running continuously without problem for a number of years, now."

'Running continuously' is the way it should be, but not always the way it is. Interested in how many years it goes without any problems.

[ssfc72]

Yes, I can view the real time video from any of my phones, tablet or computers by going to the IP address of the RPi.
I have the motion detected video being stored to the SD card on the RPi. I can view the stored video anytime I want to.
I used to have the motion captured video, go to my cloud Google drive.

Oh, I hadn't realized (or more likely, forgotten) that MotionEye is/has an OS. That's cool. I'm guessing that you're viewing it live so it is streamed to another device but does it do recording, too? Or is streamed to another device for recording?

[kalabaster]

Has anyone ordered up the Pi-500. Is it available in Canada yet. What cost $ / source ?

[ssfc72]

Hi Kal, it is great hearing from you.

I did see that the Pi500 was recently released.
2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, 2 micro HDMI ports, 8G of Ram

$127 at pishop.ca for just the computer and then you would need the power supply, monitor, mouse.