Rahul Ranjith
1 min readMay 10, 2017

IP camera issues for RPi Hap Node JS

RPi camera performs its duty but was not upto the mark. The video/images it captured didn’t impress me . I was in search of an IP camera to add it to the motion eye .

Finally got one from Aliexpress, then Sannche brand IP camera which was worth20$. Received it after a month and it is really worth that 20$ provided it works without any issues. But that was not the case with me . After using that for 2–3 days it stopped all of a sudden. Aliexpress offered me another one and that too failed after a couple of days.

Eventhough the native home app doesn’t suppor the tilt /pan functionality, or even the image rotation , the eve app supported that. That provoked me to add these features to the CameraCore.js .

Captured the http requests made to the camera from its web interface for the tilt and other features like IR mode, Image Rotation and added to the CameraCore.js and it started working well with the evo app. I could control the motion of the camera and it worked well for 3–5 days and then it again failed. Not sure what exactly is the issue. Is that a hardware issue or not .Their support has no idea of what has happened. Tried resetting many a times but it didnt boot.