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Sylvain Berfini
2017/04/25 09:58
Linphone.Linphone and Raspberry Pi - Linphone and Raspberry Pi
Table of Contents
Using the raspberry pi for video monitoring ............................................................................................................................ 3
Prequisites ............................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Using the python wrapper to develop a simple script ........................................................................................................... 3
Dependencies ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Code ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
How to use it ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Automatic start at boot ........................................................................................................................................................ 6
................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Compiling linphone on the rasberry pi .................................................................................................................................. 7
Configuration ....................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Starting linphonec ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Automatic start at boot ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
Common hardware problems .............................................................................................................................................. 9
Contents
• Using the raspberry pi for video monitoring
• Prequisites
• Using the python wrapper to develop a simple script
• Dependencies
• Code
• How to use it
• Automatic start at boot
• Linphone and Raspberry Pi
• Compiling linphone on the rasberry pi
• Configuration
• Starting linphonec
• Automatic start at boot
• Common hardware problems
The PI's camera has excellent quality, however plugging a USB camera can be more interesting as it will provide sound
recording thanks to its integrated microphone, which the raspberry doesn't have.
An ethernet connection is preferred, though wifi would work decently for video transmission as long as the raspberry is
not too far from the wifi router.
Displaying the video received by the raspberry is out of this article's scope : we will just focus on the capture, sound and
video, as well as the transmission via SIP to another SIP phone.
The following section explains how to setup the video monitoring on the raspberry pi. Several options are possible:
Prequisites
We recommend to use Raspbian, as a base installation to run linphone.
Since linphone heavily makes uses of dual-stack (ipv6 and ipv4) sockets, it is required to enable ipv6 on the raspberry by
doing
And reboot.
To be clear, there is absolutely no need to have an IPv6 connection, the concern is only to enable the IPv6 APIs of the
kernel (which are compatible with IPv4 operation of course).
Here's a simple script (a bit more advanced than the sample from the Linphone Python Wrapper page).
Dependencies
In addition to the linphone python wrapper, this script uses daemon, so you'll have to install it first:
Code
Here are the features:
params = core.create_call_params(call)
core.accept_call_with_params(call, params)
else:
core.decline_call(call, linphone.Reason.Declined)
def message_received(self, core, room, message):
sender = message.from_address
if sender.as_string_uri_only() in self.whitelist:
capture_file = self.path + '/capture.jpg'
self.core.take_preview_snapshot(capture_file)
time.sleep(2)
content = self.core.create_content()
content.name = 'capture.jpg'
capture = open(capture_file, 'rb')
content.buffer = bytearray(capture.read())
msg = room.create_file_transfer_message(content)
room.send_chat_message(msg)
proxy_cfg = self.core.create_proxy_config()
proxy_cfg.identity_address = self.core.create_address('sip:{username}@sip.linphone.org'.format(username=username))
proxy_cfg.server_addr = 'sip:sip.linphone.org;transport=tls'
proxy_cfg.register_enabled = True
proxy_cfg.avpf_mode = 1
proxy_cfg.publish_enabled = True
self.core.add_proxy_config(proxy_cfg)
self.core.default_proxy_config = proxy_cfg
def run(self):
while not self.quit:
self.core.iterate()
time.sleep(0.03)
if __name__ == '__main__':
cam = SecurityCamera(whitelist=[''])
if len(sys.argv) == 4 and sys.argv[1] == 'configure_account':
cam.configure_sip_account(sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3])
cam.run()
else:
context = daemon.DaemonContext(files_preserve = [ cam.logfile.stream, ],)
context.open()
cam.run()
How to use it
First of all, edit the script itself to set which account will be allowed to call your raspberry. For example, I'll allow myself:
cam = SecurityCamera(whitelist=['sip:sylvain.berfini@sip.linphone.org'])
The script simplifies the configuration of the Linphone SIP account you'll use to contact your raspberry-pi. To configure
the account, use the following command:
You're good to go, just call the account used to on the previous configuration step using a Linphone application (or
another SIP client) on which you have your whitelisted account configured on:
Adjust the DIR accordingly (and possibly some other values depending on the name you gave the script):
# Provides: linphonecam
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 016
# Short-Description: Surveillance camera using Linphone
# Description: Linphonecam allows you to use your device as a surveillance camera using Linphone
### END INIT INFO
# Change the next 3 lines to suit where you install your script and what you want to call it
DIR=/home/pi/linphonecam
DAEMON=$DIR/linphonecam.py
DAEMON_NAME=linphonecam
# Add any command line options for your daemon here
DAEMON_OPTS=""
# This next line determines what user the script runs as.
# Root generally not recommended but necessary if you are using the Raspberry Pi GPIO from Python.
DAEMON_USER=pi
# The process ID of the script when it runs is stored here:
PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMON_NAME.pid
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
do_start () {
log_daemon_msg "Starting system $DAEMON_NAME daemon"
start-stop-daemon --start --background --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile --user $DAEMON_USER --chuid
$DAEMON_USER --startas $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
log_end_msg $?
}
do_stop () {
log_daemon_msg "Stopping system $DAEMON_NAME daemon"
start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE --retry 10
log_end_msg $?
}
case "$1" in
start|stop)
do_${1}
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
do_stop
do_start
;;
status)
status_of_proc "$DAEMON_NAME" "$DAEMON" && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$DAEMON_NAME {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
ffmpeg (the one from raspbian uses brings by dependency the outdated libvpx)
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.7.1.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf ffmpeg-2.7.1.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-2.7.1
./configure --enable-shared && make -j4
sudo make install
bcunit
bctoolbox
belle-sip
oRTP
mediastreamer2
linphone
Everything compiled from source code was installed by default into /usr/local. By default, the raspbian OS doesn’t look
for libraries into this path.
Adding /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH env variable will solve this, but to solve this issue permanently it is also
possible to edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add a single line « /usr/local/lib » into it, then run « sudo ldconfig ».
Configuration
First run linphonec once in order to configure your SIP account. We recommend to use our free sip.linphone.org service, on
which accounts can be created using this online form.
linphonec
linphonec> proxy add
<…enter sip account configuration, make sure it registers successfully
Don’t forget to specify the transport on the proxy address with a transport parameter if necessary.
ex: sip:sip.linphone.org;transport=tls >
quit
Open ~/.linphonerc file with an editor (vim, nano...) in order to tweak a few things:
echocancellation=0
Indeed, echo cancellation is not needed, our raspberry pi has no speaker. No need to spend cpu cycles on this.
• In section [video], set vga video size to achieve decent quality, compatible with the pi's processing capabilities:
size=vga
720p is also possible but the pi2 cpu is a bit too slow for this image format with VP8 codec. svga tends to work not so bad as
well.
stun_server=stun.linphone.org
firewall_policy=3
Starting linphonec
You can then launch linphonec in daemon mode in order to autoanswer:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
sudo -u pi linphonecsh init -a -C -c /home/pi/.linphonerc
You can now place calls from your favourite linphone app (mobile or desktop) to your raspberry !
I recommend to plug the DSL box onto a programable power timer so that it is restarted every day : indeed it is not so rare
that a DSL box hangs forever and needs a manual reboot.
In order to force the raspberry to check the network periodically and force a re-connection, I suggest these two scripts,
that can be invoked periodically from cron daemon:
• The first one called "restart_wlan0_if_necessary.sh". It just tries a ping to linphone.org, and in absence of response,
trigers a shutdown/restart of the wlan0 network interface.
#!/bin/sh
date
if test -z "`ping -w 5 linphone.org |grep time`" ; then
echo "broken connection, restarting wlan0 now"
/sbin/ifdown wlan0
sleep 1
/sbin/ifup wlan0
echo "wlan0 restarted."
else
echo "Everything ok with network."
fi
• The second one, called "reboot_if_necessary.sh". Its goal is to reboot the raspberry if network is still not working,
which is the case when the wifi driver or hardware has entered an irrecoverabilly corrupted state.
Sadly, the wifi devices and drivers are generally so bad in terms of robustness, that this kind of trick is necessary.
#!/bin/sh
date
if test -z "`ping -w 5 linphone.org |grep time`" ; then