Plugin-ipcamera

Guest

just to be sure.

plugin pimatic-ipcamera is not really supported by pimatic v0.9?

can’t get it to run…

mfg
Chris

Stokstaart

Well, according to the plugin sheet here and this legend:

Marked green: Works with pimatic 0.9. However, there still may be issues. Check log messages while testing
Marked yellow: Efforts have been taken to make the plugin code ready for 0.9. Typically, a pull request is pending
Marked red: Not supported
Not marked: Status unknown
Plus sign on penultimate colum: Plugin supports device discovery

Status is unknown, so i really have no answer to your question

leader21

I am running it on v0.9.
Seems to have no issues till now.
@chris what’s the issue?

mwittig

@chris said in Plugin-ipcamera:

can’t get it to run…

Do you get some error messages? Please post log message in case
Did it work for you with pimatic 0.8? If not, the problem is possibly not related to v0.9. Note there are several pending issues with the plugin.

leader21

Regarding the issues funky told me some months ago that his pi is defect and he might get a new one. if/when he will continue to maintain the plugin has been an open question.
Maybe we should have a look for a new maintainer?

Stokstaart

@leader21 said in Plugin-ipcamera:

Maybe we should have a look for a new maintainer?

Well, i’ve been using my IP cams with the Iframe plugin… It’s works well i must say!

)EDIT i’m still on 0.8 but i think it wouldn’t matter for Iframe plugin.

Guest

Ok sorry that i gave so less informations…

at the first start there was something like that:

14:25:15.474 [pimatic] info: Installing: “pimatic-ipcamera@1.1.1” from npm-registry.
14:25:15.565 [pimatic] error: Error installing plugin pimatic-ipcamera: undefined

at the second start it was installed

14:39:58.540 [pimatic] info: Installing: “pimatic-ipcamera@1.1.1” from npm-registry.
14:40:17.404 [pimatic, ppm] info: WARN peerDependencies The pimatic plugin pimatic-ipcamera is maybe not compatible with your pimatic version.
14:40:51.168 [pimatic, ppm] info: > buffertools@2.1.4 install /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/node_modules/mjpeg-camera/node_modules/mjpeg-consumer/node_modules/buffertools
14:40:51.189 [pimatic, ppm] info: > node-gyp rebuild
14:41:16.518 [pimatic, ppm] info: make: Entering directory ‘/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/node_modules/mjpeg-camera/node_modules/mjpeg-consumer/node_modules/buffertools/build’
14:41:16.605 [pimatic, ppm] info: CXX(target) Release/obj.target/buffertools/buffertools.o
14:42:05.593 [pimatic, ppm] info: SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/buffertools.node
14:42:07.524 [pimatic, ppm] info: COPY Release/buffertools.node
14:42:07.724 [pimatic, ppm] info: make: Leaving directory ‘/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/node_modules/mjpeg-camera/node_modules/mjpeg-consumer/node_modules/buffertools/build’
14:44:36.303 [pimatic, ppm] info: pimatic-ipcamera@1.1.1 node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera

after the third start there were messages like this:

22:17:07.225 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: “pimatic-ipcamera” (1.1.1)
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file “ip-camera.coffee”…Done
22:17:10.903 [pimatic] error: Cannot find module ‘./build/Debug/buffertools.node’

then i reinstalled the plugin (remove folder, remove tag from the config, restart, edit the tag again in the config)

08:25:14.797 [pimatic] info: Installing: “pimatic-ipcamera@1.1.1” from npm-registry.
08:25:32.529 [pimatic, ppm] info: WARN peerDependencies The pimatic plugin pimatic-ipcamera is maybe not compatible with your pimatic version.
08:25:57.645 [pimatic, ppm] info: > buffertools@2.1.4 install /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/node_modules/mjpeg-camera/node_modules/mjpeg-consumer/node_modules/buffertools
08:25:57.660 [pimatic, ppm] info: > node-gyp rebuild
08:26:21.108 [pimatic, ppm] info: make: Entering directory ‘/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/node_modules/mjpeg-camera/node_modules/mjpeg-consumer/node_modules/buffertools/build’
08:26:21.171 [pimatic, ppm] info: CXX(target) Release/obj.target/buffertools/buffertools.o
08:27:07.000 [pimatic, ppm] info: SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/buffertools.node
08:27:08.843 [pimatic, ppm] info: COPY Release/buffertools.node
08:27:09.037 [pimatic, ppm] info: make: Leaving directory ‘/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/node_modules/mjpeg-camera/node_modules/mjpeg-consumer/node_modules/buffertools/build’
08:28:53.610 [pimatic, ppm] info: pimatic-ipcamera@1.1.1 node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera
08:28:53.633 [pimatic, ppm] info: └── mjpeg-camera@1.7.2 (unpipe@1.0.0, dev-null@0.1.1, commander@2.9.0, lodash@2.4.2, mjpeg-consumer@1.1.0, motion-detect@0.2.4, request@2.72.0)
08:28:53.916 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: “pimatic-ipcamera” (1.1.1)
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file “ip-camera.coffee”…Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file “base.coffee”…Done
coffee-cache: compiling coffee-script file “ip-camera-config-schema.coffee”…Done

after this i had messages like that:

08:29:14.527 [pimatic] error: Could not initialize the plugin “ipcamera”: ENOTDIR: not a directory, realpath ‘/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-ipcamera/base.coffee/…/’

i have to say that i had the sqlite3 error during the installation an installed node 6.2.2, reinstalled sqlite3 and the rest of this was working till yesterday afternoon…

mfg
chris

Guest

now i begin again… we will se how it works again…

leader21

Sorry to ask but the plugin is now working on v0.9 for you @chris

@Stokstaart The for the info. Yes thats another possibility.

mwittig

@chris said in Plugin-ipcamera:

node 6.2.2

Please use node v4.4.5 (LTS).
Node 6.2 is packaged with npm v3 which is likely to cause problems. Besides this, using node 6.2 has not been tested at all. There may be some breaking changes.

Guest

Ok,
so the plugin works now.

Just began to install from start…

another question is:
Could you add camera-streams from a
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/
URL ?

mfg
Chris

Guest

i’ve done a little workaround.

to get snapshots from an rtsp-stream.

in short:

ffmpeg make a snapshot from my rtsp stream via script
i save this in the pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/public/img/snap.jpg
i load the jpg in an iframe device and refresh this every 15 seconds.

in long:

install screen
sudo apt-get install screen
we need this because installing ffmpeg need a few hours
install ffmpeg via git:
remove the packages which were in apt
sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg
now loading the source down via git
cd /usr/src
sudo git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
then open a new screen via
screen
then we can close the terminal and come back after a while via:
screen -r
then
cd ffmpeg
sudo ./configure
sudo make && sudo make install
after a few hours (5-6) we could come back to the terminal via:
screen -r
and should see something like

[...]
INSTALL libavutil/xtea.h
INSTALL libavutil/lzo.h
INSTALL libavutil/avconfig.h
INSTALL libavutil/ffversion.h
INSTALL libavutil/libavutil.pc

the script which make the screenshot is this one:

#!/bin/sh
#Grab snapshot from RTSP-stream
ffmpeg -y -i 'rtsp://IP:PORT' -f image2 -vframes 1 -pix_fmt yuvj420p /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/public/img/kamera-hzg.jpeg

then you can access the jpeg via

http://IP:PORT/img/kamera-hzg.jpeg

then you just have to edit a rule like this:

{
      "id": "snapshot-every-xx-second-kamera-hzg",
      "name": "snapshot every xx second kamera hzg",
      "rule": "when every 15 seconds then execute \"sudo /home/pi/rtsptojpgcamhzg.sh 2> /dev/null\"",
      "active": true,
      "logging": false
    }

and an iframe-device:

{
      "url": "http://IP:PORT/img/kamera-hzg.jpeg",
      "width": 340,
      "height": 240,
      "border": 1,
      "reload": 15,
      "id": "iframe-ffmpeg-15sec-hzg",
      "name": "iframe_ffmpeg_15sec_hzg",
      "class": "iframeDevice"
    },

so i think i have mentioned all…

edit: 15 seconds-because i have this working on a raspberry pi b+
he is not so fast with the ffmpeg command…

mfg
Chris

Flop2006

for cameras with direct jpg or snapshot.cgi, you can get the picture directly via curl:

curl -o snap.jpg http://user:pass@192.168.2.102/snapshot.jpg

More informations about the path of other cameras and how to draw the timestamp in a picture I found here (only in german): http://www.netzmafia.de/skripten/hardware/Webcam/

Stokstaart

I always found this a good one for getting info about your cam(s)!

Guest

@chris hi! can u help me please, how i can resize image size by sh script? becouse It does not fit into the frame at iFrame device, for ex, i want to see this image in my phone display, thanks…
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Guest

Hello, yes I think I can help…

I’m using convert for that…

It’s this code:

every 10 seconds execute "sudo convert -resize 640x480 -quality 100 /path/for/origin/image1920x1080.jpg /path/for/resized/image640x480.jpg 2>/dev/null"

The size…
Make a screenshot of your Device an look in the details there you could find the resolution…
Or google your screen size…

Hope this helps…

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Chris

Guest

@chris thanks! it works! Advice for all, who not know about “convert” util, it is inludes in imagemagick package, u can install it by command: sudo apt-get install imagemagick