Different Computers wrote:By the same token, it would amazingly awesome if we could pull the multi-camera view from the camera, if it's configured.
whmoorejr wrote:Setup / configuration questions....
When setting up the plugin device, if you use the "CAMERA" folder without drilling down to the individual camera folder.... could you then use one Dynamic View Controller (DVC) Device for multiple cameras?
I'm guessing that by assigning the DVC device to a Camera Device.... when the camera detects motion (therefore pulling images via FTP) it notifies the Dynamic View Controller device to update the Sym Links.
If the DVC is looking at the whole FTP folder, and multiple cameras were assigned to that one DVC Device, would you end up with a single current file and single latest file?
I'm trying to see if I can use this to make a control page with one refreshing image that would update with whichever camera is detecting motion.
If that's possible, I'm guessing the next issue would be with multiple cameras detecting motion simultaneously.... in which case I would probably have to set up triggers for camera motion that would disable motion detection temporarily on the remaining cameras.
My favorite NVR/DVR displays are the types where the camera currently detecting motion takes center stage on the screen or is highlighted with a box around it.... something to visually draw your attention to the motion event.
My current workaround (still buggy) uses "RemoteSite" on my indigo server and applescripts in indigo to bring specific camera control pages to the frontmost Safari page. So, if doorbell is pushed, applescript tells safari to load the FrontDoorCamera Control Page. "RemoteSite" then broadcasts that desktop image into a control page as another refreshing image URL. <-- Serious PITA.
whmoorejr wrote:Feature request: (not sure if this would be for this plugin, the HD plugin or a separate plugin)
Ability to purge older files. (the saved FTP images) I'm not sure what would be the easiest way..... over-write older files based on date or based on folder size setting. or a nightly file purge. (at #:## am/pm, delete files that are ## days old). ...
tell application "Finder"
set fourWeeksAgo to (get current date) - (4 * weeks)
delete (get every file of folder "Macintosh HD:Users:williammoore:Desktop:IPCamLog" whose creation date is less than fourWeeksAgo)
end tell
When setting up a control page for browsing, I have found that the best way (so far) is to add a Refreshing Image URL and set its refresh rate to 24 hours. Then setup six buttons to page forwards and back with server actions: skip back, skip forward (for files), time skip back, time skip forward (for time i.e half-hours) and day skip back, day skip forward. For each of these buttons set up a client action to Replace with Control Page - the current control page (you might need to save and close and re-edit to get it in the control page list for the client action). This way you can page backwards and forwards very quickly through the images.
file:///Users/<USERID>/Documents/CAMERA/image-02.jpg
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