RoboCam Pro

RoboCam is a professional WiFi robot control app with
live FPV 360° camera streaming and Google Cardboard VR.
Originally created by Alexey Valuev (proghouse.ru) and
significantly extended by M.Sc. Magnus Ivarsson.

🤖 SUPPORTED ROBOTS

Control multiple robot platforms via Bluetooth and WiFi:

- LEGO Mindstorms EV3 — Bluetooth Classic with direct
motor commands and EV3 mailbox messaging
- LEGO Spike Prime — Bluetooth via MicroPython commands
- Arduino — Bluetooth (HC-05/HC-06) or WiFi polling
- Raspberry Pi — Bluetooth RFCOMM or WiFi polling

📷 LIVE FPV 360° CAMERA

Mount your phone on the robot and stream live MJPEG
video to any browser on your network. Supports the
Huawei 360° panoramic camera for full surround view.

- Stream from any browser — no extra app needed
- Multiple simultaneous viewers supported
- Low latency WiFi streaming
- Accessible at http://[PHONE_IP]:8088

🥽 GOOGLE CARDBOARD VR

Experience true first-person robot control with Google
Cardboard VR. Combined with the Huawei 360° camera you
get a fully immersive panoramic VR view from the
robot's perspective.

🕹️ WEB-BASED CONTROLLER

Control your robot from any browser on any device on
the same WiFi network — no extra app needed.

- Up to 4 simultaneous touch joysticks
- WASD and arrow key keyboard support
- Works on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac browsers
- QR code for instant URL sharing
- Auto reconnection if connection drops

⚙️ ROBOT CONFIGURATION

XML-based configuration compatible with the original
RoboCam app by Alexey Valuev.

- Configure up to 4 joysticks with motor port assignments
- Tank steering with configurable motor ports
- EV3 mailbox messaging support
- Save, load, import and export XML configurations
- Default EV3 Researcher config pre-installed
- Auto-loads last used configuration on startup

🔒 DRIVER AND SPECTATOR ROLES

- Driver — full joystick and keyboard control
- Spectator — camera view only
- Password protection for both roles

🛡️ SAFETY FEATURES

- Watchdog timer — stops all motors automatically
if WiFi drops within 500ms
- Active EV3 motor braking
- Automatic Bluetooth reconnection
- Server continues if Bluetooth fails

📱 TECHNICAL

- Port 8088 — matches original RoboCam
- Supports Android 7.0 and above
- Optimized for Android 14, 15 and 16
- Works correctly on Samsung Galaxy devices
- Foreground service keeps server running in background
- Camera2 API and NanoHTTPD embedded server

🌐 HOW IT WORKS

1. Mount your Android phone on the robot
2. Connect to your robot via Bluetooth
3. Start the RoboCam server
4. Scan the QR code or open the URL in any browser
5. Drive your robot and watch the live camera feed
6. Use Google Cardboard for full VR immersion

📜 CREDITS

Originally created by Alexey Alexandrovich Valuev at
proghouse.ru. Extended by Magnus Ivarsson(Master of Science in
Engineering Physics, LTH) with full approval of the original
author, adding VR support, Huawei 360° camera,
additional robot platforms and modern Android support.

RoboCam Pro:
https://jlivingstonsg.github.io/proghouse2/

Original RoboCam:
proghouse.ru/article-box/92-robocam


🔧 PERMISSIONS

- Camera — live FPV video streaming
- Bluetooth — robot motor control
- Internet/WiFi — HTTP server and web controller
- Foreground Service — server runs in background

Compatible with LEGO EV3, Spike Prime, Arduino Uno,
Arduino Nano, ESP32, Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 and Zero W.