New plugin under development - Camect

For my initial testing, yes. Bad idea?

Probably not, but I never tested that, so it's possible I'm hitting the device with multiple requests that it can't handle. But I can see why you might want to capture multiple images off one alert. My replacement unit should be delivered today, so I'll try to test that scenario over the weekend and see if I need to do something to avoid the issue.

It's quite possible the API just isn't fast enough to retrieve multiple images more or less concurrently. I'll ask the developers about it if I can replicate the issue.

in the mean time, I've changed my group from "all the snapshots" to just one. On the first try, no problem. I'll rotate that through a variety of cameras to see if the problem crops up when I hit the ones that are slower to respond.

Edit: Based on preliminary testing, it seems like the problem only happens when I have multiple snapshots actions inside of one trigger.

EDIT 2: Nope, it's happening again. Still investigating.

Hmmmmm.

Seems like snapshots are now being triggered, but not saved. The triggers are working, but they don't cause a JPG file to show up.

I got my replacement Camect set up, and I'm working on the requested changes. Snapshots are working, at least one at a time...

I'm not sure what's happening. I've reloaded the plugin, even soft reset the camect device. Very odd.

https://github.com/FlyingDiver/Indigo-C ... /tag/0.0.4

Really liking the 004 upgrade for the new functionality.

Alas, I can't figure out why snapshots aren't getting saved. I have snapshot triggers that have no conditions. I trigger them manually or via the trigger, the log shows no errors even with debugging logging turned on, but nothing appears in /IndigoWebServer or /IndigoWebServer/public or anywhere else I can think to look.

Are you getting the timing log messages? I put some in to see how long it was taking to fetch and save the image.

Not sure what you mean by "timing log messages" but here is what I get:

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 Trigger                         Easement Snapshot
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand, camera ID: f77049aa500ece1dc9e1
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand fetch completed @ 0.42702293396
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand write completed @ 0.438451051712

I've gone so far as to search the whole Indigo disk for "snapshot' and nothing. Could this be related to Indigo 7.5? These snapshots DID work for a hot minute when I was getting this set up.

If it's completing that fast then it's not getting an image. Unless your cameras are set to really low resolution. Here's what I get on mine. The save path was added after 0.0.4.

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   Action Group                    Camect Snapshot Driveway
   Camect Debug                    Camect Home: snapshotCameraCommand, camera ID: 7753560be0c618c8ee1b
   Camect Debug                    Camect Home: snapshotCameraCommand fetch completed @ 5.53249382973
   Camect Debug                    Camect Home: snapshotCameraCommand write completed @ 5.54271602631 to /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 7.5/IndigoWebServer/public/Driveway.jpg


Oh, and there's a bug in 0.0.4 - make sure you specify a file name in the action dialog.

Wasn't sure about that--the dialog seems to suggest a default of snapshot-camid if you don't specify. But I'll make sure they all have a name specified. I know some do already.

Should I specify the suffix too? "easement" or "easement.jpg"?

Wasn't sure about that--the dialog seems to suggest a default of snapshot-camid if you don't specify. But I'll make sure they all have a name specified. I know some do already.

The default is broken in 0.0.4, fixed in next release.

Looks like there is some sort of data rate limitation when too many snapshot requests happen at once. This trigger is the only one with multiple snapshot commands in it and I got

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Trigger                         Garage Door Motion, taking snapshots
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand, camera ID: d2d22fabdc110532f7ea
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand fetch completed @ 0.207311153412
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand write completed @ 0.221578121185
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand, camera ID: ca98e1de6ed3aad541f5
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand fetch completed @ 0.150645017624
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand write completed @ 0.152510166168
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand, camera ID: 2c66192f510bd5e98fbf
   Camect Warning                  Camera System: Error on SnapshotCamera [500](closed)
   Camect Debug                    Camera System: snapshotCameraCommand fetch completed @ 0.104002952576
   Camect Error                    Error in plugin execution ExecuteAction:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 217, in snapshotCameraCommand
NameError: global name 'path' is not defined


Other individual snapshots don't generate that error.

I've gone through the plugin config and set the path "back" to IndigoWebServer instead of /public, and I've specified a name for every snapshot file, but no results. The plugin thinks it is writing but I can't find anything.

With those timings, it's getting nothing back from the Camect, so it's probably not actually writing anything. I'll have another version posted shortly.