Snap allows you to easily take pictures from the Raspberry Pi through the internet. Snap is also extensible with protocols such as Unix Domain Sockets.
Snap is experimental. Your feedback is very much appreciated.
Note: For setting up the Pi, refer to this guide.
To run Snap on the Pi, ensure that you have enabled cross-compilation for Go.
With Mac OS/Homebrew, install Go with this command
brew install go --cross-compile-common or --cross-compile-all
If you have installed Go from source, set the environment variables and call ./all.bash in the src folder for each GOARCH/GOOS combination you need. For a step-by-step guide, refer to this.
In your terminal, run the following command to compile snap.go:
GOARCH=arm GOOS=linux GOARM=5 go build snap.go
Next, copy the binary to the SD card for your Pi. You can do this by directly copying snap from your desktop/Mac to the SD card. If you are running the Pi headless, run this command:
scp snap pi@[IPAddressRaspberryPi]:/home/pi
Once you have snap on your SD card, run snap to allow it to listen on sockets.
./snap
With snap running on the Pi, you can command the Pi to take a picture by calling the following URL from your browser:
http://[IPAddressRaspberryPi]:3000/snap?flip=[value]
The flip param is optional. The value can be hf for the picture to flip horizontally or vf to flip vertically.
Snap will stream the captured image so you can view it from your browser.
You can also use snap in your own Pi projects by calling snap with Unix Domain Sockets.
For an example implementation, see unixclient.go.
To run tests on snap.go, compile raspistill-mock.go in the helpers folder:
go build raspistill-mock.go
Set the PATH_TO_RASPISTILL-MOCK environment variable to the path to raspistill-mock, eg. ./helpers/raspistill-mock.
Run tests in the root folder:
go test
MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file in the source distribution.