/sofia-client

Cross-platform Electron client for viewing and configuring Sofia/DVRIP protocol IP cameras

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Sofia Client

Build Status

Sofia Client is still in WIP mode not yet ready for release

Copyright (c) 2019 Ebraheem AlAthari and Eliot Woodrich

Sofia is an Electron-based client for viewing and configuring IP network cameras based on the "Sofia" protocol used by the "NetSurveillance" ActiveX plugin. Sofia supports altering the quality, profiles and other camera features as well as network and other configuration options.

Sofia Client uses the python-netsurv library to communicate with compatible IP cameras.

Build

Clone and install the sofia-client repo:

git clone https://github.com/sofia-netsurv/sofia-client

To install the dependencies:

yarn

ffmpeg is required for viewing the stream, to install on Debian based distros

sudo apt install ffmpeg

python netsurv is required for altering the config of the camera, to install it on any distributions

pip install netsurv

To run the program

yarn start

Sofia Client is based on electron-react-boilerplate, and more information about its dependencies and install procedure can be found on the README.

License

This program is licensed under the "MIT License". Please see the file LICENSE in the source distribution of this software for license terms.