I would like to announce a new open source project called NodeMinder.js, for viewing and recording images from security cameras.

As the description at the project page says, it's a Linux video camera security and surveillance solution based on ZoneMinder and developed on top of a node.js stack.

The project is still in an early stage of development and it would be very interesting to hear some suggestions and critiques. Any help would also be welcome, either in programming, documentation or guidance.

See our page in GitHub (nodeminderjs / NodeMinder.js) to get more details about the project.

See our blog in blogger (nodeminderjs) to see some early screenshots.

I would like to announce a new release 0.0.4 with some new features.

Release notes

• Fixed the problem with multichannel cards. Reads from multiple cameras connected to the same chip (device - e.g. /dev/video0) are now synchronous.
• Implemented a simple image change detection routine to trigger recording.
• Improvements in the client (browser) to allow positioning and resizing of the cameras images, selection of cameras that will be shown on the view and saving these customizations using HTML5 localStorage feature.
• Events recording for each configured camera.

See our Github page or blog to more info.

Release 0.0.5

Release notes

• New page for viewing the recorded events.
• Fixed bug with event mp4 video generated. Added "-pix_fmt yuv420p" output parameter to the ffmpeg command. Now the generated video plays in Google Chrome browse.