Motion Detecting Security Camera in NodeJS

Uses a RTMP Server and asynchronous screenshotting to detect motion from a iPhone camera!

• Saves .jpg images that are detected to have motion in timelapse style.

RTMP Server

• Creates RTMP Server to stream iPhone camera feed through the server to use as camera.
• Uses node-media-server

Connecting iPhone to RTMP Server

• Portforward port 1935
• Tested using manycam (iOS)
• livestream to rtmp server

Motion Detecting in NodeJS (Jimp & PixelMatch API's)

• Screenshots frames from RTMP Server using screenshot-desktop & vlc
• calculates the % of pixels from each frame that have changed
• based on that % judges wheter there has been motion on the screen
• ~ %98 Accuracy in well lit room

Dependencies

• npm install node-media-server (RTMP Server)
• npm install --safe jimp (Image Proccessing & Detection)
• npm install express (Live Feed Hosting), can be disabled with removal of code
• npm install cookieParser (Not Needed)
• npm install cookieSession (Not Needed)
• npm install screenshot-desktop (Screenshotting)
• npm install morgan (Logging)
• VLC Media Player (Used to capture RTMP Stream to take screenshots of) Can be swaped with /viewstream, etc...