Network IP Camera Application Programming Interface (NIPCA) - Client

A node.js client to connect to NIPCA, which is a protocol for some Network IP Cameras e.g.: DLINK DCS-8200LH.

Description

Provides a node.js client to access NIPCA based IP Cameras. Tested with node.js 10 and DLINK DCS-8200LH.

Some of the cameras seems to support Basic Authentication by suppling the credentials by base64(username:password). In my case (with the DLINK DCS-8200LH) this wasn’t working, therefore I had to reverse engineer the authentication protocol there.

Install

npm install nipca --save

Usage

This is a code example to show how to use this library.

const Nipca = require("nipca");
const baseUrl = "http://192.168.0.10"; // IP of the camera
const user = "admin"; // User
const password = "753776"; // Pin-Code (backside of the camera)
new Nipca(baseUrl)
  .login(user, password)
  .then(nipcaClient => {
    nipcaClient.fetchInfo().then(res => console.log("fetchInfo:", res));
  })
  .catch(err => console.error("Error", err));

Further Links

• http://gurau-audibert.hd.free.fr/josdblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CGI_2121.pdf
• https://docplayer.net/33354138-Network-ip-camera-application-programming-interface-nipca.html
• ftp://ftp.dlink.net.pl/dcs/dcs-2132L/documentation/DCS-2132L_NIPCA_support%20table_1-9-5_20131211.pdf