Camerapi

Camera PI is a module that allow to use the Raspberry PI camera from Node.JS

To Install

npm install camerapi

Usage

var Camera = require("camerapi");

var cam = new Camera();

By default if you don't specify any file name,it tries to find a folder called pictures inside the module you can set the directory with :

cam.baseDirectory('/YOUR_BASE_DIRECTORY');

cam.prepare({"timeout" : 150, 
		 "width" : 2592,
		 "height" : 1944,
		 "quality" : 85
	   }).takePicture();
	   

If you decided to use this type of implementation you can use any parameter, just add it as a key:value attribute.

cam.prepare({"timeout" : 150, 
		 "width" : 2592,
		 "height" : 1944,
		 "quality" : 85,
		 "vflip" : "",
		 ..,
		 ..,
		 ..
	   }).takePicture();

Or

cam.prepare({"timeout" : 150, 
		 "width" : 2592,
		 "height" : 1944,
		 "quality" : 85
	   }).takePicture("mypicture.jpg");

Or

cam.prepare({"timeout" : 150, 
		 "width" : 2592,
		 "height" : 1944,
		 "quality" : 85,
		 "output" : "mypicture.jpg"
	   }).takePicture();

Or

cam.prepare({"timeout" : 150, 
		 "width" : 2592,
		 "height" : 1944,
		 "quality" : 85
	   }).takePicture("mypicture.jpg",callback);
	   
function callback(file,error){

	//do some fun stuff

}
	 

Or

cam.timeout(150)
.width(1024)
.height(768)
.quality(75)
.opacity(50)
.rotation(180)
.takePicture();

Or

cam.timeout(150)
.width(1024)
.height(768)
.quality(75)
.opacity(50)
.rotation(180)
.takePicture("mypicture.jpg");

Or

cam.timeout(150)
.width(1024)
.height(768)
.quality(75)
.opacity(50)
.rotation(180)
.takePicture("mypicture.jpg", callback);

Or

cam.timeout(150);
cam.width(1024);
cam.height(768);
cam.quality(75);
cam.takePicture();

Resting all settings

cam.reset();

Recording Video

cam.timeout(5000)
.bitrate(3500000)
.framerate(5)
.streamVideo("foo.h264")
.fullscreen()
.recordVideo();

Or

cam.timeout(5000)
.bitrate(3500000)
.framerate(5)
.fullscreen()
.recordVideo("myvideo.h264");

Or

cam.timeout(5000)
.bitrate(3500000)
.framerate(5)
.fullscreen()
.recordVideo("myvideo.h264",callback);

function callback(file,error){

	//do some fun stuff

}

So every time you take a picture without filename it creates a file with the current date in the base folder.

More information

For more information about the raspberry pi camera module, see the official documentation

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Leandro Salas

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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