Thingino ONVIF Simple Server (fork)

Fork of roleoroleo’s ONVIF Simple Server, adapted for the Thingino firmware. Small, dependency‑light, and integrated with Thingino’s build, config, and logging stack.

What’s different vs upstream

• Security improvements: Migrated from unmaintained ezxml to actively maintained mxml
• JSON‑only modular config (no INI)
  • /etc/onvif.json (main) + /etc/onvif.d/{profiles,ptz,relays,events}.json
  • Optional onvif.json: "conf_dir" (defaults to /etc/onvif.d)
  • Managed via jct where needed (init scripts)
• Syslog logging integration (0=fatal .. 5=trace). Loglevel from JSON or CLI
• Raw XML request/response mirroring to a file for SOAP troubleshooting
• Reorganized tree: src/, xml/, config/, docs/
• Thingino Buildroot package installs binaries, templates, JSON, init scripts
• Proper Buildroot integration with thingino-jct and mxml dependencies

Build

• Production (Thingino Buildroot): Package: package/thingino-onvif, Build: make rebuild-thingino-onvif Dependencies: thingino-jct, thingino-mxml v4.0.4 (automatically managed)
• Local Development: Use ./build.sh script (builds jct and mxml libraries locally) Use make distclean to remove all local artifacts and repositories Run ./setup-hooks.sh to install git hooks for automatic code formatting
• Cross-Compilation: ./build.sh mipsel-linux- (toolchain must be in PATH)
• See docs/BUILD.md for detailed build instructions and cross-compilation setup
• Templates are served uncompressed, relying on squashfs filesystem compression

Configure

• Main: /etc/onvif.json
• Modules: /etc/onvif.d/*.json (profiles, PTZ, relays, events)
• jct can update keys safely from init scripts
• See docs/CONFIGURATION.md for full schema and examples

Debugging

• Logs: syslog (foreground prints to stderr)

Templates

• XML templates installed under /var/www/onvif/* from the xml/ directory

Documentation

• Build & Setup: BUILD.md, BUILDROOT_INTEGRATION.md
• Migration: MIGRATION_SUMMARY.md, MXML_MIGRATION.md
• Configuration: CONFIGURATION.md, API.md
• Operations: DEPLOYMENT.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md
• Development: CHANGELOG.md, README.md, GIT_HOOKS.md

Attribution & License

• Upstream author: roleoroleo — https://github.com/roleoroleo/onvif_simple_server
• This is a derivative, Thingino‑specific fork. License: GPLv3