Can I use Cloud Live instead of the Imou OpenSDK?

Description and use

Maintaining both Cloud Live and OpenSDK with a unified gateway prevents feature drift, ensures consistent capability checks, and allows clear documentation of surface-specific features.

Problem

Deciding whether to replace Imou OpenSDK with Cloud Live for live video delivery across web and native platforms.

Outcome

Maintaining both Cloud Live and OpenSDK with a unified gateway prevents feature drift, ensures consistent capability checks, and allows clear documentation of surface-specific features.

Workflow

• 1. Implement a cameraGateway with list, openLive, and can methods.
• 2. In openLive, route to cloudLive.open for web surfaces and nativeSession.open for native surfaces.
• 3. Use can() to cache capabilities and hide talk/PTZ on web if not allowed.
• 4. Ship web-only product: inventory + HTTPS live tile, error handling, capability checks, teardown on leave.
• 5. Ship native-only product: inventory, OpenSDK live, teardown on pause, talk after can('talk') and mic permission.
• 6. Ship both surfaces: add surface metric, revoke by invalidating both handles, avoid assuming web flags for native.
• 7. Generate camera rows in one place, store external_id, avoid silent copying.
• 8. Add contract tests to ensure both adapters return same camera_id and handle new fields uniformly.
• 9. Document surfaces and not-in-this-leaf list in README.
• 10. Use separate teardown functions for web and native to avoid leaks.
• 11. Run automated tests: revoke, mixed content, pause, capability checks.
• 12. Decide deployment based on product needs: web-only, native-only, or both.

Evidence

I use a cloud live address and a JS player on the website, H5 page, and SaaS console. I use OpenSDK in the native app when I need an app shell, live, and talk on that OS—if the device and subscribed services allow those verbs.

Source

I do not let those clients import vendor SDKs into domain code.

Source

I add a contract test: list from the BFF, open web, open native (mocked), same camera_id. If a new field appears on only one adapter, the test fails.

Source