Picture ID

A command line utility that takes a picture when your SSID changes. This project is blatantly inspired by, ripped off from, and sort of a port of the amazing Wifi Diary project.

This project only works on Mac currently.

Install

Make sure Homebrew and Node are installed.

• Install imagesnap: brew install imagesnap
• (optional for location data) Install CoreLocationCLI: brew tap caskroom/cask && brew cask install corelocationcli
  • Authorize and test: CoreLocationCLI -once -json
  • Note that location data is only added to .jpg files.
  • Note that the CoreLocationCLI utility randomly fails, but the image will still be saved.
• npm install picture-id -g
• (optional, but kind of pointless without) Add a line to your crontab: (crontab -l ; echo '*/10 * * * * PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH && picture-id') | crontab -

Use

Provides the picture-id command line utility.

Usage: picture-id [options]

Options:

  -h, --help                   output usage information
  -V, --version                output the version number
  -b, --db <file>              Where to save the file that keeps track of the SSID. The
                                 default is "~/.picture-id.db".
  -d, --directory <directory>  Where to save the images. The default is "~/Pictures/picture-id".
  -n, --filename <filename>    The name of the file to create with values
                                 {{YYYY}}, {{MM}}, {{DD}}, {{HH}}, {{II}}, {{SS}}, {{SSID}}.
                                 Valid image types are JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, BMP. The
                                 default is "picture-id-{{YYYY}}{{MM}}{{DD}}-{{SSID}}.jpg".
  -w, --warmup <n>             The number of seconds to warmup the camera; the default camera
                                 needs a couple seconds otherwise the picture will be very
                                 dark. The default is "3".
  -f, --force                  Forces picture to be taken regardless of a change of SSID.
  -L, --no-location            Do not attempt to add location to image. Location information
                                 is only added to .jpg files.

In code

There's not much reason to use this module directly in code, but if desired, the module provides a function that takes the same options as the command line utility.

var pictureID = require('picture-id');
 
pictureID({
  filename: 'from-code-picture.jpg'
});