# Send a selfie picture from a mobile device to node-red server

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-a-selfie-picture-from-a-mobile-device-to-node-red-server/18715>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [2 December 2019 22:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-a-selfie-picture-from-a-mobile-device-to-node-red-server/18715 "2019-12-02T22:41:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![BartButenaers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bartbutenaers/32/10476_2.png) [@BartButenaers](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/BartButenaers)\
**Post date:** [2 December 2019 23:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-a-selfie-picture-from-a-mobile-device-to-node-red-server/18715/2 "2019-12-02T23:29:24Z")

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Hi Wym,  
We had a rather similar [question](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/trigger-browser-camera-with-dashboard-button/16778) recently. Based on that question I started experimenting with my dashboard's camera and I developed a UI node to capture camera images from my dashboard's camera.

That (experimental) UI-node _worked_, but I had a number of open issues (which is why I haven't shared it yet with the community). My main problem was that I had to tell my browser a number of things:

- Which resolution I want, from a range of available solutions.
- Which camera I want to use, from the available camera's (front, back, ...)
- Which format I want, from a list of available formats (jpeg, png, ...)
- ...

**A user needs to specify all these settings in the node's config screen** (which is running at the server side). But suppose 2 dashboards are connected to the server. One phone has 1 camera, and the other phone has 2 camera's:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/0/051c36e28f2aa2b853f13f1a37c8898052a94a49.jpeg)

In the config screen I don't know which clients are connected, so I cannot determine what they offer. At the moment you open the config screen, perhaps even no clients are connected at the moment ... So I don't know what options to show in the config screen, because I don't know the capabilities of the client 🥴

If anybody knows how to solve this problem, please let me know so I can publish a beta version of this experimental node ...

Bart

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