IP Cameras

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Originally Posted by GRSICP

We are sure we want to use a pi. However, we weren't sure which type of camera to use. We considered a USB camera and a pi camera. We decided against the USB camera because from what I can tell you had to work around some errors to access the stream. We decided against the pi camera because then we have no fall back if we cannot get the pi working. We liked the IP camera because, if we are unable to successfully use the pi, we would be able to fall back to using the IP camera with GRIP on the computer.

I am not sure how sound this reasoning is though. Is there another combination you think would be better? We are certainly open to suggestions!

Your reasoning seems sound, in particular the rationale for having a backup in case you can't get the PI working.

I've personally had bad experiences a few years ago with IP cameras adding additional latency, but it's possible that is no longer an issue now.