Change mjpg-streamer settings in the raspi image- add user/password

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• Repetier

  January 2018

  You need to provide user and password in the url. If webcam uses digest authentication (default popup with credentials) you need a link like this
  
  http://admin:password@10.0.0.7/mjpeg/snap.cgi?chn=1
  
  server will detect this and run authentication in that case.
• Nandox7

  January 2018

  Thanks for the reply.
  I think that is not exactly it, that would be in case the webcam had some authentication method built-in.
  
  Here I don't have any authentication method in the webcam, so I want o add it at the mjpg-streamer level.
  The output_http plugin provides that option: https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer/blob/master/mjpg-streamer-experimental/plugins/output_http/README.md
  
  ---
  mjpg_streamer [input plugin options] -o 'output_http.so [options]'

  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  The following parameters can be passed to this plugin:
  
  [-w | --www ]...........: folder that contains webpages in 
                            flat hierarchy (no subfolders)
  [-p | --port ]..........: TCP port for this HTTP server
  [-c | --credentials ]...: ask for "username:password" on connect
  [-n | --nocommands ]....: disable execution of commands
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  ---
  
  So what I need is a way to start the mjpg-streamer service passing the --credentials param to the output_htt plugin.
  But in the server the only options I have is to set resolution and framerate.
• Repetier

  January 2018

  Ok, you want it on start of mjpg streamer. Thought you wanted auth for an other webcam with password.
  
  You need to edit the start script of mjpg_streamer. Check /usr/local/RepetierSetup/bin there is teh start script for streamer and you can add your params there.
• Nandox7

  January 2018

  Perfect thank you.
  Just looked into it and have it working now.
  
  PS: The code in github is quite old right? Not worth sending a pull request for it as I'm exposing this params in the UI.
• Repetier

  January 2018

  Yes, we are closed source for years so no updates on old server on github.