Merry Christmas to you all. Here is a small gift to all those with +IP cameras following the ONVIF +specification. There is finally a nice command line and GUI tool +in Debian to manage ONVIF IP cameras. After working with upstream for +a few months and sponsoring the upload, I am very happy to report that +the libonvif package +entered Debian Sid last night.
+ +The package provide a C library to communicate with such cameras, a +command line tool to locate and update settings of (like password) the +cameras and a GUI tool to configure and control the units as well as +preview the video from the camera. Libonvif is available on Both +Linux and Windows and the GUI tool uses the Qt library. The main +competitors are non-free software, while libonvif is GNU GPL licensed. +I am very glad Debian users in the future can control their cameras +using a free software system provided by Debian. But the ONVIF world +is full of slightly broken firmware, where the cameras pretend to +follow the ONVIF specification but fail to set some configuration +values or refuse to provide video to more than one recipient at the +time, and the onvif project is quite young and might take a while +before it completely work with your camera. Upstream seem eager to +improve the library, so handling any broken camera might be just a bug report away.
+ +The package just cleared NEW, and need a new source only upload +before it can enter testing. This will happen in the next few +days.
+ +As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.
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