In the previous chapter, you learned how to create a console-based application. We went through the evolutionary phase of development for learning purposes. In this chapter, we will explore different options to turn our BeagleBone Black board into a home surveillance system. On this path, we will encounter some hurdles and come up with solutions to those. In a fully prepared system, the actual execution block may not consist of more than one line of a GStreamer pipeline. However, it will be a long journey to get to this. We know the significance of layers from the previous chapter. In this chapter, we will use some of the community or vendor maintained layers, such as meta-oe and meta-ti.