cam-privacy

Intro

• Simple glue app to toggle Amcrest Camera Privacy on and off via a GET request
• Uses FastAPI for the webserver endpoint and https://github.com/tchellomello/python-amcrest for Camera control.
• Shoutout to @tchellomello

How to use

STEP 1:

• Setup env file

cp .env.example .env

• Fill out the env file with your camera info

STEP 2:

• You will need to deploy the application on a Linux VM with Docker installed
• The easiest thing to do is to copy your .env file and let Docker Compose handle the rest
• The docker_deploy TaskFile step can be used as reference

STEP 3:

• You can trigger the privacy mode w/ a simple GET request to the webserver.py endpoints.

Dev Setup

Install Go-Task --> https://taskfile.dev/installation/

task setup
task docker_build_and_run

Testing

task test

PS I'll be amazed if anyone actually uses this