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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from December 2022</title>
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  10                 <title>ONVIF IP camera management tool finally in Debian</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Merry Christmas to you all.  Here is a small gift to all those with
  15 IP cameras following the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.onvif.org/&quot;&gt;ONVIF
  16 specification&lt;/a&gt;.  There is finally a nice command line and GUI tool
  17 in Debian to manage ONVIF IP cameras.  After working with upstream for
  18 a few months and sponsoring the upload, I am very happy to report that
  19 the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/libonvif&quot;&gt;libonvif package&lt;/a&gt;
  20 entered Debian Sid last night.&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;The package provide a C library to communicate with such cameras, a
  23 command line tool to locate and update settings of (like password) the
  24 cameras and a GUI tool to configure and control the units as well as
  25 preview the video from the camera.  Libonvif is available on Both
  26 Linux and Windows and the GUI tool uses the Qt library.  The main
  27 competitors are non-free software, while libonvif is GNU GPL licensed.
  28 I am very glad Debian users in the future can control their cameras
  29 using a free software system provided by Debian.  But the ONVIF world
  30 is full of slightly broken firmware, where the cameras pretend to
  31 follow the ONVIF specification but fail to set some configuration
  32 values or refuse to provide video to more than one recipient at the
  33 time, and the onvif project is quite young and might take a while
  34 before it completely work with your camera.  Upstream seem eager to
  35 improve the library, so handling any broken camera might be just &lt;a
  36 href=&quot;https://github.com/sr99622/libonvif/&quot;&gt;a bug report away&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;p&gt;The package just cleared NEW, and need a new source only upload
  39 before it can enter testing.  This will happen in the next few
  40 days.&lt;/p&gt;
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