Foscam Streamer

A small tool to stream your Foscam IP camera on the web, plugin-free.

Testing

• Set the FOSCAM_STREAM_URL environment variable (e.g. rtsp://user:pass@abcde.myfoscam.org:88/video).
• Start the server with node index.js.
• Open the test_client.html.

Watchdog

The watchdog will keep tailing the server log and restart the service if the log stops increasing in size (i.e. the camera is down).

• python watchdog.py

Supervisor

It includes some supervisor configurations to run the server and the watchdog.

IMPORTANT: Make sure the absolute paths match your setup.

Todo

• Absolute paths should be environment variables.
• Ports and other constants should be environment variables. 😴

Credits

• Thanks to the creators and maintainers of https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-rtsp-stream and https://github.com/phoboslab/jsmpeg.

Notes

This repository includes a copy of node-rtsp-stream for my convenience (I keep tweaking some ffmpeg parameters).