My web cam snap

[Aiken Qi]

Hi, Rick,

May I know what hardware you are working on? Any plan to release the source
code?


Regards,
Aiken Qi |Director Alliances PRC | Canonical Ltd | Beijing| China | +86
13683072422

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Rick Spencer <rick.spencer at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I built my latest snap, that I call rest-cam. I designed this snap really
> as a building block for other functionality. The idea being that I can
> attach a camera to a device, install the snap, and then write easy code
> either on the same device or on different devices, web pages, desktops,
> etc... to interact with the camera.
>
> Currently the functionality is pretty bare bones. If you want to write a
> program that processes an image in some way, say uploads it to a cloud
> service, etc... simply ask the api for the image:
>
> http://ipaddress:8082/api/photo
> This will take a photo on demand and serve that file. This is the main
> purpose of the snap. I am envision a lot of apps using
> http://localhost:8082/api/photo .
>
> If you want to check if the camera is attached:
> http://ipaddress:8082/api/status
>
> I also include a web page that you can use just to futz with the camera,
> and you just get that at the root.
> http://ipaddress:8082/
>
> I have some near term features to add. First, offering snappy config to
> set the port, and also adding some simple authentication, which it totally
> lacks, now. Then expanding the api to allow different size images.
> Ultimately, I plan to add capturing video and streaming to the snap.
>
> If you have suggestions for improving the design, new features, or really
> and feedback, that would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Rick
>
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