readme.md

Hikvision event subscriber

This is very raw library, feel free to use it and send pull requests and make it suitable for NPM

This library will solve the problem with catching Hikvision Camera events

Supported events:

• AlarmLocal - Local IO alarm
• VideoMotion - Capture Video motion event
• LineDetection - Capture Line crossing event
• VideoLoss - Capture Video loss event
• VideoBlind - Capture video blind event
• start - Recording start event
• stop - Recording stop event

Main features of the library

Emits

• Hikvision alarms
• Connection errors
• On connect event

Quickstart

1. Clone repo
2. Copy config.json.example to config.json cp config.json.example config.json
3. npm install
4. node index.js

Recompile Typescript

1. npm install -g typescript
2. run command tsc this will compile your code to dist directory

Sample usage

const { CameraEventHandler } = require('./dist/cameraEventHandler');
const Events = require("events");
const config = require("./config.json");

const cam = new CameraEventHandler(config.host, config.port, config.user, config.password);

cam.on("error", function(err){
    console.log("error", err);
})

cam.on("connect", function(){
    console.log("connected")
})

cam.on("alarm", function(code, action, index){
    console.log("alarm tirggered", [code, action, index]);
})