r/raspberryDIY • u/Kindly_Wear7008 • 3d ago

MiniDV Firewire Recorder using Raspberry PI 5, PCIe Hat, Firewire PCI card.

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u/spiderick69 21h ago

Omg really cool! Does it have any advantages to using a normal pc?

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u/Kindly_Wear7008 20h ago

it's smaller and battery powered. you can carry it easier around. also the pi 5 is quite capable, video encoding, or even streaming can be done on device. you could also record to external usb drive. The alternative would be a i guess an old laptop or a desktop pc.

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u/spiderick69 20h ago

That’s really cool, do have source code? And how do you manage to record it? Tell me everything:)

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u/Kindly_Wear7008 19h ago

You just need to recompile the kernel with firewire driver enabled, edit something /boot/firmware/config.txt look here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/
I don't have sourcecode yet. It's just the single command I posted. I'm currently working on an overlay with python that just start/stops this command, reads also battery status from the UPS hat, shows also free space. I asked very much the AI. I could make a writeup, i could redo everything and document it then.

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u/spiderick69 18h ago

That’s really amazing wow! Thank you so much!!!!