Watchdog

Get WhatsApp alerts whenever someone approaches your unattended laptop.

Demo

Once you have Watchdog running, send start in your Twilio WhatsApp Sandbox to begin the detection.

As soon as Watchdog detects someone at your laptop you'll recieve an alert with an image of the culprit!

Prerequisites

Linux

$ sudo apt-get install fswebcam

Mac OSX

$ brew install imagesnap

Installation

Requires NodeJS & NPM.

Once installed, clone the repository and install its dependencies running:

$ npm install

Development

Sign up for Twilio and activate the Sandbox for WhatsApp.

Once you have your credentials, create .env with the following:

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=<TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID_GOES_HERE>
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=<TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN_GOES_HERE>
TWILIO_WHATSAPP_FROM=<TWILIO_SANDBOX_NUMBER_GOES_HERE>
TWILIO_WHATSAPP_TO=<YOUR_NUMBER_GOES_HERE>
NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN=<NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN_GOES_HERE>
NGROK_SUBDOMAIN=<NGROK_SUBDOMAIN_GOES_HERE>
NGROK_URL=<NGROK_URL_GOES_HERE>
NGROK_REGION=<NGROK_REGION_GOES_HERE>
NGROK_USERNAME=<NGROK_USERNAME_GOES_HERE>
NGROK_PASSWORD=NGROK_PASSWORD_GOES_HERE>
SERVER_PORT=<SERVER_PORT_GOES_HERE>

Example .env

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=44370743a981sdf18074ee2d7c87
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=f32dcbf09af4190caab20f3ecc0312
TWILIO_WHATSAPP_FROM=1410000001
TWILIO_WHATSAPP_TO=353870000001
NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN=84shw61df31ud6s_kd73gr9hhd613
NGROK_SUBDOMAIN=watchdog
NGROK_URL=https://watchdog:watchdog@watchwatchdog.ngrok.io
NGROK_REGION=us
NGROK_USERNAME=watchdog
NGROK_PASSWORD=watchdog
SERVER_PORT=5000

Run:

$ npm run start

Testing

For ESLint run:

$ npm run lint

For tests run:

$ npm run test

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2019 Conor Hughes - Released under the MIT license.