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ONVIF Network Camera Manager

The ONVIF Network Camera Manager is a sample application using the node-onvif. The ONVIF Network Camera Manger consists of 2 components: a Node.js script server.js and a web application.

When the server.js is run, it starts a web server and a WebSocket server for the web application. The server.js serves the web application of the ONVIF Network Camera Manager to a web browser through HTTP. Then the web application run on the web browser establishes a WebSocket connection in order to communicate with the server.js in real time.

When the server.js receives a command from the web application run on the web browser, it communicates with the targeted ONVIF device.

Before you try the ONVIF Network Camera Manager, you have to install some Node modules:

$ cd ~
$ npm install node-onvif
$ npm install websocket

You can starts the server.js as follows:

$ cd {path_of_the_sample_directory}/manager
$ node ./server.js

After the server.js has been started, you can access the web application accessing https://localhost:8880 or https://{the_IP_address_of_the_host}:8880.

When you can access the web application, you can see the login form as follows:

The login form

When the login form is shown, the application starts to discover ONVIF devices. If some devices are found, they will be listed in the select box. Selecting a device in the list, filling the username and the password set to the selected device, and pressing the Connect button, you can access the device. If you access the selected device successfully, then you can see the controller page as follows:

The controller page

If the device supports PTZ, you can pan, tilt, zoom pressing the controls in the screen. You can also control the PTZ feature pressing the keys on the keyboard. The arrow keys are assigned to pan and tilt. The + and - key are assigned to zoom.

Though the application shows the capture of the camera in real time, it is not a video stream because web browsers does not support any RTP streams. Therefore, the application just shows a snapshot as an image repeatedly in short intervals. The frame rate will be 5 - 10 fps though it depends on the device spec.

Not that the application can not show the camera capture if the device does not support the GetSnapshotUri commnad specified in the ONVIF Media Service Specification.

I tryed some ONVIF network cameras as follows: