AxisCam

Axis (VAPIX) camera control in Node

Run

To run, make a settings.json file in the root folder:

{
    "url": "https://<user>:<passwd>@<addr>",
    "name": "Name for the camera",
    "motion": false
}

This provides the address and credentials for the camera, an optional name and whether to emit any detected motion events (defaults to False).

Test

To run the tests, create a settings.json file in the test folder to point to a test camera.

Motion Detection

If motion detection is activted, a motion stream is automatically started and any motion messages where the motion value exceeds the threshold value is emitted.

var axis = require('lib/axis'),
    util = require('util')

var axisCam = axis.createClient({url: 'https://<user>:<passwd>@<addr>'})

axis.on('motion', function(data) {
        util.inspect(data)
})

API

###createImageStream

Streams an image from the camera:

var axis = require('lib/axis'),
    fs = require('fs')

var axisCam = axis.createClient({url: 'https://<user>:<passwd>@<addr>'})
axisCam.createImageStream().pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./image.jpg'))

###createVideoStream

Streams MJPEG

###createMotionStream

Creates a stream of javascript objects that represent a snapshot of the Axis camera's motion detection:

{group: 0, level: 2, threshold: 10}

var axis = require('lib/axis'),
    es = require('event-stream')

var axisCam = axis.createClient({url: 'https://<user>:<passwd>@<addr>'})
axisCam.createMotionStream().pipe(es.stringify()).pipe(process.stdout)