# Live stream with a camera pi on node red dashboard

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/live-stream-with-a-camera-pi-on-node-red-dashboard/10594
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**Created:** [26 April 2019 23:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/live-stream-with-a-camera-pi-on-node-red-dashboard/10594 "2019-04-26T23:32:17Z")
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#### Post date: [27 April 2019 07:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/live-stream-with-a-camera-pi-on-node-red-dashboard/10594/5 "2019-04-27T07:35:32Z")

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Hi @khalil,  
I don't have a raspicam, but can't you do it like this:

1. Get camera snapshot images with [node-red-contrib-camerapi](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-camerapi).
2. As soon as images are travelling through your Node-RED flow, show them on your dashboard. In this [link](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-multipart-stream-decoder#usage) I do something similar for an IP camera: if you replace the httprequest node (that gets images from the IP cam) by the camerapi node, I assume it should work...

P.S. Be aware that the above flow keeps pushing images to your dashboard, even if you are currently showing another tab in your dashboard....

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