How-To: Remote Control the Robin
Robin Tech Note
Control the Robin with HTTP commands
The Robin SmartView is controllable with HTTP-commands and it is also possible to retrieve data.
A set of commonly used commands are shown below, in these examples with cURL-commands.
To use these commands, the provision of the login credentials of the ‘admin’ user are mandatory.
! Note: cURL is only one of many ways to send HTTP-commands. For more information about
cURL, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL !
Access to the MJPEG-video stream
- Only available on Robin products with built-in camera -
The Robin SV, CV and HV are equipped with a high resolution camera. It generates a Motion-JPEG
video stream that can be retrieved with the following command:
curl -u admin:<password> “http://<address>/pbhelper/stream.mjpeg”
•
<password> = the password for the -admin- account
•
<address> = the Robin SV address
! Note: Multiple simultaneous MJPEG video streams can affect the performance of the Robin
negatively. !
You can also set the preferred resolution and compression level, just add the following to the URL:
•
?width=320&height=240 = resolution for the requested video (320x240 pixels)
- MAX
resolution = 720x576
•
?quality=80 = JPEG quality level (80)
- MAX JPEG quality level = 100
! Note: Low resolution and low MJPEG quality will both result in low bandwidth usage. High reso-
lution and high MJPEG quality will both result in high bandwidth usage. !
