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 	"name":"birdscan",
 	"description":"Software to take beautiful pictures of birds with a Raspberry Pi camera"
 }
+
+## Future development
+
+The current setup uses a mixed codebase with Go, Python and shell code to
+provide a webinterface with the following functionality:
+
+- take single picture
+- show current state in real-time (capturing, ready, not connected)
+- reboot / shutdown the Raspberry Pi
+
+As the project is still very useful for me it would be good to improve this.
+The idea for this improvement is to split up the architecture into three
+components:
+
+1. birdscan component on the Raspberry Pi
+2. [webiot](../webiot/) on the same or another host
+3. mosquitto MQTT server also on the same or another host
+
+The MQTT broker comes basicly for free because it is just one Linux package and
+the default configuration is just fine.
+
+webiot should contain the user interface. This reduces the effort to develop
+birdscan because the web-related part can be skipped.
+
+The relevant part is the birdscan component itself. My idea is to use the pure
+v4l2 interface of the Linux kernel to access the camera directly. Because the
+Linux kernel is programmed in C the easiest way is probably to also implement
+birdscan in C. MQTT libraries are available for C too.
+
+To get started I will have a closer look at
+[megapixels](https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/megapixels) which is a camera app
+written in C and with similar ideas about how to connect to the camera.
+
+Hopefully I find some time for this project in the next weeks / months. If you
+have some ideas about the project you can just write me a mail to
+me@xengineering.eu.