New plugin under development - Camect

https://github.com/FlyingDiver/Indigo-C ... /tag/0.0.5

Seems like everything is working now!

I'm beginning to think I had some strange screen sharing caching refresh problem remoting in to my Indigo box, because suddenly just now hours old snapshots appeared where they were expected to be.

Argh!

I think I'm pretty close to doing an official release. Please test as much as you can and open issues on GitHub for anything that doesn't seem to work right.

Just wanted to say that this plugin is already making my cameras more useful than they have ever been.

Maybe this has already occurred to you, but last night I had a brainstorm that resulted in a super simple way to always be able to see the most recent alert. Let's say FrontPorch cameras set to take a snapshot whenever it sees and triggers an alert. Indigo saves and serves FrontPorch.jpg, but it also requests another snapshot, alert.jpg. *And Indigo does every other camera when it has an alert.*

This way, I can put the alert.jpg image as a refreshing URL on a control page and know I'm always looking at the most recent thing that happened on my cameras.

I'm already at the point where I would recommend Camect over Security Spy. The hardware seems to have an easier time of keeping up the connection between itself and my sometimes distant wifi cameras, compared to any of the other video server products I've tried: SecuritySpy, Sighthound, ZoneMinder, and less successful choices whose names I forget.

If you've tried the email alerts the Camect sends (or Telegram, I think), you'll see it includes an animated GIF of the event, like below. I expect that the URL to that GIF will be included in the alerts in an upcoming firmware update. That'll be really useful.

Wanted to say thanks for the .5 version update - the mode event triggers I set up to test with are now working. Sorry I have not provided more feedback but have been in the middle of a month long replace my fence project. The plug-in is great and I have had no issues with it. Hoping to try more stuff now that the fence project is almost finished...

I'm seeing my camect system getting "disconnected" status in Indigo roughly once a day.

Will turning up logging help me figure out what's happening? Also, is there any way to programmatically reload the plugin?

Yeah, some debug logs might help.

You can reload a plugin with a standard Indigo action:

I'll raise the logging level, but it seems like it disconnects right after

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 Camect Warning                  Camera System: Error on SnapshotCamera [500](not found)
   Camect Warning                  Error writing image file: /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 7.5/IndigoWebServer/public/image.jpg, err: argument 1 must be string or buffer, not None


I imagine the 2nd line is because the first line didn't allow the script to grab an image. And I think the 500 error is camect not replying fast enough, right?

Error 500 is the generic "Server Internal Error". Not very informative.

Do you have a trigger or something that's requesting an image at that time?

How do I find the plugin ID when it's not in the plugin store yet?

It's in the Info.plist: com.flyingdiver.indigoplugin.camect

I do have a trigger getting an image then, yes.

Yeah, that second error line is bogus. It was an internal error that didn't return an image.