printhive/lib/printerCamera.js

// The chamber camera on a P1 or A1 series printer.
//
// The printer serves still frames on port 6000 over TLS: an 80-byte hello with
// the same "bblp" username and access code as the status connection, then a
// stream of JPEGs, each behind a 16-byte header giving its size. Roughly one
// frame a second — stills, not video. Read-only, like everything else here.
//
// X1 printers don't do this; they serve RTSP on port 322, which a browser
// can't show without transcoding.
const tls = require('tls');

const PORT = 6000;
const HEADER = 16;
const MAX_FRAME = 12 * 1024 * 1024; // a frame is well under this; a bigger one means we've lost our place

function hello(accessCode) {
  const buf = Buffer.alloc(80);
  buf.writeUInt32LE(0x40, 0);   // payload length
  buf.writeUInt32LE(0x3000, 4); // protocol marker
  buf.write('bblp', 16, 32, 'ascii');
  buf.write(String(accessCode).slice(0, 31), 48, 32, 'ascii');
  return buf;
}

// The picture's size, from the JPEG's own frame header — a cheap sanity check
// that what arrived really is an image.
function jpegSize(buf) {
  let i = 2;
  while (i + 9 <= buf.length) {
    if (buf[i] !== 0xff) { i += 1; continue; }
    const marker = buf[i + 1];
    // SOF0…SOF3, SOF5…SOF7, SOF9…SOF11, SOF13…SOF15 carry the dimensions.
    if (marker >= 0xc0 && marker <= 0xcf && ![0xc4, 0xc8, 0xcc].includes(marker)) {
      return { height: buf.readUInt16BE(i + 5), width: buf.readUInt16BE(i + 7) };
    }
    i += 2 + buf.readUInt16BE(i + 2);
  }
  return null;
}

// Connects and calls onFrame for each JPEG until stop() is called.
// onError is called once, with a plain-language reason.
function watch({ host, accessCode, onFrame, onError = () => {}, connectTimeoutMs = 8000 }) {
  let closed = false;
  let pending = Buffer.alloc(0);
  let expecting = null; // size of the frame being gathered

  const socket = tls.connect({
    host,
    port: PORT,
    rejectUnauthorized: false, // the printer's certificate is self-signed
    timeout: connectTimeoutMs,
  });

  const fail = (message) => {
    if (closed) return;
    closed = true;
    socket.destroy();
    onError(message);
  };

  socket.on('secureConnect', () => {
    socket.setTimeout(0);
    socket.write(hello(accessCode));
  });
  socket.on('timeout', () => fail('The printer didn’t answer on its camera port.'));
  socket.on('error', (err) => fail(
    /ECONNREFUSED/.test(err.message)
      ? 'The printer refused the camera connection — “LAN Mode Liveview” may be off.'
      : err.message));
  socket.on('close', () => fail('The printer closed the camera connection — the access code may be wrong, or “LAN Mode Liveview” is off.'));

  socket.on('data', (chunk) => {
    pending = pending.length ? Buffer.concat([pending, chunk]) : chunk;
    for (;;) {
      if (expecting === null) {
        if (pending.length < HEADER) return;
        expecting = pending.readUInt32LE(0);
        pending = pending.subarray(HEADER);
        if (!expecting || expecting > MAX_FRAME) { fail('The printer sent something Printhive couldn’t read as a picture.'); return; }
      }
      if (pending.length < expecting) return;
      const frame = pending.subarray(0, expecting);
      pending = pending.subarray(expecting);
      expecting = null;
      // A frame always starts with the JPEG marker; anything else means trouble.
      if (frame[0] !== 0xff || frame[1] !== 0xd8) { fail('The printer sent something Printhive couldn’t read as a picture.'); return; }
      onFrame(frame);
    }
  });

  return () => {
    if (closed) return;
    closed = true;
    socket.destroy();
  };
}

// Connects, waits for one frame, and says what came back. Used to check a
// printer's camera without opening a viewer.
function testCamera({ host, accessCode, waitMs = 10000 }) {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    const started = Date.now();
    let stop = () => {};
    let done = false;
    const finish = (result) => {
      if (done) return;
      done = true;
      clearTimeout(timer);
      stop();
      resolve({ ...result, ms: Date.now() - started });
    };
    const timer = setTimeout(() => finish({ ok: false, error: 'No picture arrived within ten seconds.' }), waitMs);
    stop = watch({
      host,
      accessCode,
      onFrame: (frame) => finish({ ok: true, bytes: frame.length, ...(jpegSize(frame) || {}) }),
      onError: (error) => finish({ ok: false, error }),
    });
  });
}

module.exports = { watch, testCamera, jpegSize, hello, PORT };