Meteor Cordova: Cannot get camera plugin to work, Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getPictu

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Feroze Shahpurwala

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Oct 19, 2014, 3:46:42 PM10/19/14

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I am trying out the Meteor Cordova camera plugin and it won't work and I have no idea what I am missing.

Here is what I did:

1) Meteor create new project

2) Added the cordova camera package meteor add cordova:org.apache.c...@0.3.1

3) Programmed the default button on screen to take a picture and then append it to the body. This should use the camera built into the laptop computer but all I get when I click the button is: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getPicture' of undefined And when I run the app in the iPhone simulator with the command meteor run ios and click the button I get a popup error: Failed because: no camera available

This is what my html and js file look like:

main.html

<head>
  <title>cameraTest</title>
</head>

<body>
  <h1>Welcome to Meteor!</h1>

  {{> hello}}
</body>

<template name="hello">
  <button>Click Me</button>
  <p>You've pressed the button {{counter}} times.</p>
</template>

main.js

if (Meteor.isClient) {
  // counter starts at 0

  function onSuccess(imageData) {
      var image = document.getElementById('myImage');
      image.src = "data:image/jpeg;base64," + imageData;
      $('body').append(image);
  }

  function onFail(message) {
      alert('Failed because: ' + message);
  }


  Session.setDefault("counter", 0);

  Template.hello.helpers({
    counter: function () {
      return Session.get("counter");
    }
  });

  Template.hello.events({
    'click button': function () {

      navigator.camera.getPicture(onSuccess, onFail, { quality: 50,
        destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL
      });
    }
  });
}

Feel free to respond here or in the stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26454473/meteor-cordova-cannot-get-camera-plugin-to-work-uncaught-typeerror-cannot-rea

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