IFETCH(1)
π IFETCH π
okay bestie, welcome to the ifetch page β it's part of the ifetch-tools family, and if you're here it's because you've got IP cameras and you want their lil pictures, and honestly? iconic behavior. π
β¨ NAME β¨
ifetch β the image collection tool for IP Cameras of ifetch-tools π¦
like. it fetches. images. from cameras. the name is not subtle and we love that for it. π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
ifetch CONFIG_PATH
that's it. one argument. no cap. π«Ά
π§ DESCRIPTION π§
ifetch is the image collection tool of ifetch-tools.
and what is ifetch-tools, you ask? it's a whole set of tools whose entire job is to collect, monitor, and view images from IP Cameras. it's giving surveillance-but-make-it-organized. the pipeline is literally: grab the pics, watch the pics, look at the pics. periodt. π
π OPTIONS π
lowkey this section is short but it matters, so listen up:
ifetchneeds a single option, and that option is a camera config file β specifically one that lives at/etc/ifetch-tools/cameras/camera_num.conf. β
fr fr: it's one config file per camera, and that path is the whole vibe. don't come at it with zero arguments, bestie, it will simply not know which camera you mean. π
π HOMEPAGE π
want more tea about the ifetch-tools project? all the deets live over at <http://fyeox.com/ifetch-tools/>. go click around, it's the main character's official address. π₯
π AUTHOR π
ifetch-tools was written by Richard Nelson <unixabg@gmail.com>. give him his flowers, he built the whole thing. πΈπ
and that's the page!! no crumbs left, every single detail accounted for, we ate and left no notes. ππ
ifetch-tools version 0.18.2, dated 2020-05-11 β yes it's a lil vintage, and yes it's still serving. mwah. πβ¨ bye bestie, go fetch those images!! πΈπ¦
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: ifetch-tools 0.18.5-1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- debian trixie: ifetch-tools 0.18.5-1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: ifetch-tools 0.18.5-1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: ifetch-tools 0.18.5-1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: ifetch-tools 0.18.6-3 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: ifetch-tools 0.18.6-4 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms