Security Camera Viewer

A mobile frontend for the Logitech Alert security cameras. Desigened to allow live viewing, recorded video, and motion alerts. Other cameras may work but are untested.

Instructions:

• You first need a working Logitech Alert setup (other cameras currently unsupported)

  • Send motion alerts to a dedicated email address which the poller will check

• Install prerequisites as needed

  • apt-get install ffmpeg vlc apache2 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql php5 libapache2-mod-php5
  • Depending on your distribution you might have to add multimedia sources to apt or package distribution system

• Download the files

  • git clone https://github.com/salbahra/Security-Camera-Viewer.git
  • mv camera-viewer/cameras /var/
  • mv camera-viewer/www/cameras /var/www/
  • mv camera-viewer/VLC-init /etc/init.d/

• Fill in the MySQL information, Email information, and site information in config.php.

  • nano /var/www/cameras/config.php

• Modify the feeds.vlm to transcode your videos and auto start VLC

  • nano /var/cameras/feeds.vlm
  • update-rc.d vlc defaults
  • /etc/init.d/vlc start

• Add the poller to crontab every 5 minutes to ensure your database is up to date with new video clips and motion alerts:

  • */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/cameras/poller.php >/dev/null 2>&1

• Add a user to the configuration. There is no user management system yet, so this is done manually

  • First generate a hased version of your password
  • /usr/bin/php -r "echo base64_encode(sha1('PASSWORD'));"
  • Then add it to the htpasswd file
  • nano /var/cameras/htpasswd
  • Example:
  • username:ZGM3MjRhZjE4ZmJkZDRlNTkxODlmNWZlNzY4YTVmODMxMTUyNzA1MA==

• From there you may attempt to access the front end.