Introduction

This is a python module providing a basic python interface to interact with a Hikvision IP Camera

This is licensed under the MIT license.

Getting started

This module is tested against firmware 5.2.0. It may work on older versions, but that has not been tested.

For further info on the camera API's see: CGI API Guide: http://bit.ly/1RuyUuF

Requirements

module requires:

• requests>=2.0

Install

git clone --recursive git@github.com:fbradyirl/hikvision.git
cd hikvision
# NOTE: You might need administrator privileges to install python modules.
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .

Usage

Variables:

import hikvision.api

# This will use http by default (not https)
hik_camera = hikvision.api.CreateDevice('192.168.2.5', username='admin', password='12345')
hik_camera.enable_motion_detection()
hik_camera.disable_motion_detection()
hik_camera.is_motion_detection_enabled()

host *Required This is the IP address of your Hikvision camera. Example: 192.168.1.32

username *Required Your Hikvision camera username

password *Required Your Hikvision camera username

TODO

Add more functions

Developer

hikvision is hosted by Github at https://github.com/fbradyirl/hikvision

CI run after commit:

flake8 hikvision
pylint hikvision
coverage run -m unittest discover tests

Copyright (c) 2015 Finbarr Brady.