New Plugin for IP Camera (Snapshot)

---

Finally, my IP Camera MJPEG plugins released.
Before you use this plugin, please do reset about type of IP Camera that do you have.
Currently there are two types of camera which are MJPEG or RTSP (Onvif, etc)…
Based on hardware that I have, this release only support MJPEG type of camera (plain - without SSL certificate and authentication)

You can check this plug in plugin menu…and fork this plugin at https://github.com/funky81/pimatic-ip-camera/

Hope you guys can use it

@funky81 That’s great! Thanks for sharing

Are you planning to add Authentication and SSL Certificate support at a later stage?

@funky81 thanks for this new plugin !
Another thing to mention : it works great with “motion” (http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome) on the raspberry pi which provide a MJPEG stream.
It won’t work with http://billw2.github.io/pikrellcam/pikrellcam.html that provide only a simple jpeg image every ~150ms, for that we would need to add support of a simple image grabber…

@mwittig yes of course… I’ll add in the next 0.3 release version, after I figure it out how to release 0.2 😇😇

Sorry to put this later, because, since pimatic can be proxy, I don’t need my mjpeg ip camera interface direct to the Internet. Which really nice for me and safe also

@Yves911 thank you for being my beta tester earlier. Sure, I’ll look forward to check the compatibility

@Yves911 Had some front-end errors to that where solved by adding the img folder by hand:

mkdir /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/public/img

I got the same issue at the beginning but @funky81 fixed it (https://github.com/funky81/pimatic-ip-camera/commit/2bc542ee74569222292558f71d94f95e2522f0dd).
Are you running it on Windows or Linux?

Hi @pimagical, I’ll check tonight.
I’m also adding width and height attributes with this release. Anyway, anyone having trouble using pimatic update features?

@funky81 said:

I’m also adding width and height attributes with this release. Anyway, anyone having trouble using pimatic update features?

I did an update this morning and the plugin has been updated to version 1.0 without any problem

@Pimagical I think the directory is automatically created if it was missing AND if the plugin managed to retrieve an image from the link.
So maybe the plugin is not able to download the image and then won’t create the directory…

@Pimagical said:

@funky81 @yves911 i updated my first post after a few more tests. My results for now are:

• The error is not path dependend. The second cameraUrl gave a error to after a while.

• rmdir pimatic-ipcamera and img directory. Installed the plugin again and after a reboot or press refresh button it won’t create a img folder automatically.

• Did not found image files in the img directory yet.

The second cameraUrl (external IP address) can be used for testing. If there is something I can do or I could try tell me.

Hi @pimagical, i will try for your second public camera URL.
About the creation of img directory, i will create it only for the first time, so the iteration of the process should be shorter than current plugin.

anyway, do you mind to fill up any issues to plugin github?

Hi @yves911, do you have any issues?

Thanks

@funky81

Hi @yves911, do you have any issues?

Sorry see your post now only, well i would say that i can’t take the full benefit of the plugin at the moment:

1. lack of https : not a big deal because my server serve files on local network without a secure layer (so a simple http request is still possible inside my LAN).
2. login/paswword : it’s more problematic (as i am using a htaccess protection). I don’t want to disable this authentication (because my server is accessible on www)
3. PiKrellCam provide a simple jpeg image (and not a mjpeg stream) and the plugin seems to be able only to extract an image from a stream (but i may be wrong here).

So at the moment i download apart of the plugin images that i need with the correct name in the img directory.

Thanks for your input. Currently I develop for streaming mjpeg, and I have working code in my laptop. And for your http authentication, I’ll modify my code to accommodate this.

For earlier access to plugin, I will upload it to my development branch at this plugin github

I’ve just update this plugin so you can see mjpeg streaming or snapshot.
Snapshot only works when you stop the streaming or if its load for the first time

since this features still on beta, you can download it here : https://github.com/funky81/pimatic-ip-camera.git with dev-br-1 tree

additional features: I already add also features to use username and password for basic authentication

Thanks

I just update this plugin, no more streaming…just refresh snapshot
I also add delay time, so you can adjust your self time to refresh the snapshot

in order to use this (still in beta)…

1. removed manually pimatic-ipcamera plugins
2. install plug in by

• stop pimatic
• change directory into [pimatic dir]/node_modules/
• execute this npm install pimatic-ipcamera@1.0.8 --tag beta
• start pimatic

next

• will try for authentication problem…
• add motion detection

Thanks

How can i see an rtsp stream?
I’ve added the url including the rstp:// at start but gives an error on that?

@RBuckens hi…this plugin still dont have support RTSP.
it will have…so stay tuned

@funky81 can’t get it to work. I did a npm install and after starting service ill get a error [pimatic]: Cannot find module ‘node-resemble-js’

Better change git “pimatic-ip-camera” into “pimatic-ipcamera” than it is the same name in npm so i can clone with more ease.

@Pimagical said:

Better change git “pimatic-ip-camera” into “pimatic-ipcamera”

@funky81 You can easily do this using the Settings tab on the github project page. Existing checkouts won’t be affected by the name change.

I have changed this plugin github into pimatic-ipcamera https://github.com/funky81/pimatic-ipcamera

Fyi, for the latest plugin development

• Refresh Style : npm install pimatic-ipcamera@1.0.8 --tag beta
• Refresh Style + Motion Detection (using resemble-js) : npm install pimatic-ipcamera@1.0.12 --tag beta

next

• will try for authentication problem…
• add motion detection (using opencv)

notes on version 1.0.12 - consume more power since the plugin always analyze the difference for motion possibilites

Pimatic-ipcamera is working very nicely, good job!