Visca over IP

Rationale

This is an almost complete visca-over-ip implementation that can be used to control pan/tilt/zoom cameras from various manufacturers. I created this because the other options were bloated, didn't function, were complex or lacked documentation. This project aims to be as simple as possible while still complying to all visca protocol specifications.

Credit

This project is heavily inspired by Utoputopiantools visca implementation. A part of the command handling was originally created by utopian and restructured/rewrited by me. Thanks!

Roadmap

Currently I'm on quite a tight schedule for a couple more days, for that reason I currently only implemented the features we use (setters). In a couple days I will implement the inquire commands and add complete documentation. written on 8th of august 2022

Structer

This implementation consists of two classes, a ViscaCamera class and a ViscaCommand class. The ViscaCamera class does the communication with the camera and handles the packets/commands, and ViscaCommand is a wrapper around a visca command on which you can tie events.

Example

const { ViscaCamera, ViscaCommand } = require('visca-over-ip');
var camera = new ViscaCamera('10.99.10.104', 5672);

var command = ViscaCommand.cameraPanTiltHome()
command.on('ack', () => {
    console.log('Command acknowledged')
})

camera.on('connected', () => {
    console.log('Camera connected')
    
    camera.sendCommand(command)
})