Hoi

A set of configurations for Howdy face unlock with IP Webcam.

Environment

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                            Project Hoi. 
                            Copyright (C) 2022 Felicia Wen

~/Project/Hoi/res ❯ 

Installation

Manual

Howdy integration

Configure your camera options in files under res/ .
Copy the configured files to its correspended directory.
Now howdy is integrated with IP Webcam.

Recording

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable microphone # [1]

Now the Microphone of IP Webcam will be sinked to PulseAudio once user login.

Camera

To run camera permanently.

$ systemctl enable camera [1] [2] [3]

rather than that,

I suggest
$ systemctl --user start videostream
do streaming stuff...
$ systemctl --user stop videostream

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[1] Always on and keep reconnecting when connection is dropped.
[2] High battery cosumption.
[3] You need to resume it after suspended or hibernated, manually or by adding an systemd service.

See also

• Roadmap of Hoi