Pakistrano-camera-control NPM

Pakistrano camera control

With this library you can interact with the foscam camera device family.

Camera server (before you continue reading)

If you are thinking on developing a front webservice for this driver, its almost done at here

Tested models

FI8910W

You can see the public promise based interface here

Install via npm

npm install pakistrano-camera-control

Example usage

const PakistranoCameraControl = require('pakistrano-camera-control')
const pakistranoCameraControl = new PakistranoCameraControl({
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  user: 'admin',
  password: 'admin'
})

const sleep = (seconds) => {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, seconds * 1000))
}

/// Camera move
(async () => {
    await pakistranoCameraControl.startMoveLeft()
    await sleep(0.5)
    await pakistranoCameraControl.stopAxes()
})()

/// Camera video stream
(async () => {
    const videoStream = await pakistranoCameraControl.getVideoStream()
    videoStream.pipe(process.stdout)
})()

How to run tests

To run all tests you must

# run all tests (you must have a camera available on your network).
# Defaults are admin:admin@localhost
CAMERA_HOST=192.168.1.4 CAMERA_USER=admin CAMERA_PASSWORD=admin npm test

# run unit tests
npm run unit-test

# run integration tests (you must have a camera available on your network)
CAMERA_HOST=192.168.1.4 CAMERA_USER=admin CAMERA_PASSWORD=admin npm test

Motivation - Who is Pakistrano ?

Pakistrano is a smart thief. He's always awaiting for best moment to steal shoes and/or socks. The target is to catch him while hes doing the best that he knows.