PI VIDEO RECORDING & LIVE

Raspbian with raspivid

Enable camera on raspberry

sudo raspi-config

Then -> Interface options -> Camera -> Enabled ? Yes

VLC Installation

sudo apt-get install vlc

avconv to convert from h264 to mp4

sudo apt-get install libav-tools

Conf

In config.json, you can specify :

{
  "allowedOrigins": [
    "*"
  ],
  "port": 5000,
  "livePort": 5002,
  "recordTimeout": 610000,
  "writePath": "/tmp",
  "size": {
    "width": 900,
    "height": 1600
  }
}

Launch server

npm start

Requests

• GET : /api/

  To check if the server is running.

• GET : /api/state

  To know the current state of the server.

• POST : /api/live/start

  To start the live streaming

• POST : /api/live/stop

  To stop the live streaming

• POST : /api/record/start filename

  • filename: name of your recording file

  To start the recording.

• POST : /api/record/stop

  To stop the recording -> also encoding from h264 to mp4 (can take some time)