ipcam

Sample application for "V4L2 for Ruby".

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ipcam'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ipcam

Usage

Connect a camera device compatible with V4L2 and start ipcam as follows.

ipcam [options] [device-file]
options:
        --bind=ADDR
        --port=PORT
    -d, --database-file=FILE
    -e, --extend-header
        --log-file=FILE
        --log-age=AGE
        --log-size=SIZE
        --log-level=LEVEL
        --develop-mode

Then connect to port 4567 by http browser and operate. The accessible URLs are as follows.

• http://$HOST:4567/
  redicrect to /main
• http://$HOST:4567/main
  preview and settings
• http://$HOST:4567/stream
  http streaming

options

--bind=ADDR

Specify the address to which the HTTP server binds. by default, IPv6 any address("::") is used.

--port=PORT

Specify the port number to which the HTTP server binds. by default 4567 is used.

-d, --database-file=FILE

Specify the file name to save the camera setting value. by default, it tries to save to "~/.ipcam.db".

-e, --extend-header

Add extend header to part data (for debug).

--log-file=FILE

--log-age=AGE

--log-level=LEVEL

device-file

specify target device file (ex: /dev/video1). if omittedm, it will use "/dev/video0".

etc

About image data

いらすとや (https://www.irasutoya.com) で配布されている『特撮映画のイラスト』(https://www.irasutoya.com/2018/12/blog-post_90.html) を改変して使用しています。

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.