Indigo Domotics

How do I get this sucker to stop grabbing images constantly? I just want to grab a snapshot when motion is detected.
Thanks

kelmk wrote:

How do I get this sucker to stop grabbing images constantly? I just want to grab a snapshot when motion is detected.
Thanks

There is not currently a feature to do this. I'll add it to my backlog.


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No worries. I ended up using Ffmpeg to grab a frame of the rtsp stream.


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So was thinking more about this and you could set up a camera, use the Disable action to stop the automatic image capture, then use the take snapshot action to take your snapshots.


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bkmar1192 wrote:

my front door camera has a minimum sensitivity of 10 and a max of 40

Do you mean ten and forty, or point one and point 4? Because a newly set up camera has default values that I think are 0.01 and 0.25.

Do these values vary tremendously from camera to camera? Just trying to understand the value range I should experiment to get reasonable motion detection.

Default was from an earlier version when the value was calculated differently. I'll add to the list of bug fixes. The min/max corresponds to the Pixel Diff and is a percent of pixels different. I use 10/40 because a car passing by is about 5-8% and sometimes the image doesn't fully load so 50%+ of it is black (different).

I usually take my laptop out and just monitor the Pixel Diff state as I walk around and see how it changes.


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Feature request:

"Single Step playback"...

When I thought about trying to use "play" on the Master3 image rather than copying every third image of a recording into my own directory and then displaying that as a 9 pane mosaic, I realized that over a satellite Prism connection, it takes about 5 seconds to paint even a small image, meaning I'm going to be missing a lot of frames if I just call for a playback and displaying the Master3.jpg no matt3er what I set for an update rate. So an option to advance (and maybe reverse) the image manually would let me scroll through them at leisure without creating my own 9 image mosaic as I am doing now.

Would you want to forward/reverse on recordings only or on the live feed as well? There would also need a pause action.


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Selfishly, *I* would only be using it on the recordings, but I can't speak for how others might want to use it. I haven't tried the "current image" option because (as I said, the sat uplink is slow as Tony Romo, which was why I created the static nine panel control page for whenever the driveway sensor trips. But being able to walk the recording would be far better and mean I could get rid of all the kludgey scripts I have to figure out your directory and img_ names to copy to my directory for display... But it seems that letting the current image get out of sync with real time might present a whole lot of problems for getting it back into sync later...

EDIT

Another place that would benefit would be to have an option to manually advance the carousel...When I played with it last night and this morning it works perfectly on the local WIFI network, but skips cameras remotely here at the office because of the time required to serve each image. If it just grabbed a single frame from each next camera in the queue on manual command and left it up till the next "advance" command, it would work a lot better for slow connections, Please remember that not all of us live in gigabit cities with universal LTE coverage; when you've got to deal with Hughesnet and 3G, things happen a lot slower.

I don't understand why I keep seeing this error over and over:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 743, in MasterCamera
  File "plugin.py", line 380, in MasterImage
  File "plugin.py", line 45, in getSortedDir
OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 7/IndigoWebServer/video/Cam Breezeway/03 03 2017 17.39.20')


I mean, I get that the directory doesn't exist, but I don't understand why the plugin wants this particular directory, and why it isn't there, and why it doesn't add it if it has to have it.

johnpolasek wrote:

Selfishly, *I* would only be using it on the recordings, but I can't speak for how others might want to use it. I haven't tried the "current image" option because (as I said, the sat uplink is slow as Tony Romo, which was why I created the static nine panel control page for whenever the driveway sensor trips. But being able to walk the recording would be far better and mean I could get rid of all the kludgey scripts I have to figure out your directory and img_ names to copy to my directory for display... But it seems that letting the current image get out of sync with real time might present a whole lot of problems for getting it back into sync later...

EDIT

Another place that would benefit would be to have an option to manually advance the carousel...When I played with it last night and this morning it works perfectly on the local WIFI network, but skips cameras remotely here at the office because of the time required to serve each image. If it just grabbed a single frame from each next camera in the queue on manual command and left it up till the next "advance" command, it would work a lot better for slow connections, Please remember that not all of us live in gigabit cities with universal LTE coverage; when you've got to deal with Hughesnet and 3G, things happen a lot slower.

Working on a new release that includes the above. Hopefully will have it out this evening.


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Different Computers wrote:

I don't understand why I keep seeing this error over and over:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 743, in MasterCamera
  File "plugin.py", line 380, in MasterImage
  File "plugin.py", line 45, in getSortedDir
OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 7/IndigoWebServer/video/Cam Breezeway/03 03 2017 17.39.20')


I mean, I get that the directory doesn't exist, but I don't understand why the plugin wants this particular directory, and why it isn't there, and why it doesn't add it if it has to have it.

The plugin "builds" all of the Master images if you are using it or not. The plugin is set to display a recording that does not exist. If you switch to a different recording it should cause the error to go away.

I am working on anew release and will add some error checking on playing recordings.


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The plugin is set to display a recording that does not exist

As far as I know, I don't have any recordings AT ALL. Could this be a snapshot? How could I make this stop? It seems to trigger when motion is detected.

Workaround until I get home tonight and update the plugin, is to create a recording on your breezeway camera. Then run the action to play a recording and run recording #1.


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Triggered Breezeway recording, then stopped it.

I see a created folder named 06 07 2017 17.54.04 now, with stills in it.

Is that supposed to be the recording? I have never messed with recording before.