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📹 A tool to locally capture your own Nest camera stream.
📹 FoggyCam - Nest Camera Recorder
A tool to locally capture your own Nest camera stream. You can read more about my approach in the recently published blog post. This approach supersedes the previous implementation that relied on the /get_image API and instead captures the H.264 stream directly through the Nest WebSocket service.
Configuration
To get the project to work, edit camera_config.json.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
ffmpeg_path |
Local path to the FFMPEG executable. You can download FFMPEG for free. If you are on Windows, make sure that the path is escaped (e.g., use D:\\test\\ffmpeg.exe instead of D:\test\ffmpeg.exe). |
issue_token |
The full URL to the iframerpc network call when logging in to https://home.nest.com. You can capture it through your browser. |
api_key |
If you have a x-goog-api-key value from existing network calls, use it here. Otherwise, skip the value. |
user_agent |
The user agent for your web browser. |
cookie |
The value of the cookie from the response to the iframerpc network call when logging in to https://home.nest.com. You can capture it through your browser. |
Running the application
Open foggycam.sln in Visual Studio and build the application. In the long run, I will make sure to make this easier and remove the need to use Visual Studio.
OS Support
| Operating System | Status |
|---|---|
| Windows | ✅ Tested & supported |
| macOS | 🙋♂️ Untested |
| Linux | 🙋♂️ Untested |
Feedback
Use issues or ping me on Twitter. My SLA is typically 7 days (given all my other responsibilities), but I am actively triaging and working on the reported issues.
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