Jon00 Image Combiner for Pushover*/Email (Homeseer 3 & Homeseer 4)

[pyspilf]

You're more than welcome Jon

[jon00]

Great info thanks! I never really noticed as my sub streams are set quite high res as well..

[pyspilf]

Jon, thanks for this, it works really well!

Just downloaded and have it in use for sending snapshots from a BlueIris cam via pushover (doorbell -> shelly 1 -> mcsMQTT -> event -> your script. Works better for me than camera motion detection in BlueIris).

I came across an issue (BlueIris issue, not your script!! The cameras are all configured in BlueIris with main and sub streams, and the URL for capturing the image was always showing the sub-stream low-res image, regardless of anything I did in BlueIris with key frames and pre-trigger duration. Found a solution, posting here in case it is of any use to others:

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/image/cam1?q=100&s=100&decode=1

In this case: q=100 means best quality, s=100 means full scale and decode=1 forces use of the main stream.

I have noticed this delays capture about 1 second, I guess while the main stream is accessed and decoded, but not a problem in my use case.

Cheers

Sandro

[jon00]

V1.0.2 is now available.

I have added a delay setting between image capture(s) and sending as an email/pushover message. There were occasions where the image processing had not completed in time and was sending a corrupted image.

[jbfoster]

No more error in the log. I have it set to do 3 pictures and pull a picture from 3 different cameras. It works with the pictures but not the cameras. I think it's going to fast through the script and it's not enough time to login to each camera. I will try doing a delay for the cameras.

Thanks
Jim

[jon00]

Please try V.1.0.1 on my site to see if it makes any difference.

[jbfoster]

I got this to work with a picture on the computer but I can't get it to work with my camera.

used the same URL that was in Netcam plugin, http://username-password@192.168.1.2...pshot.cgi?chn=[0] but in the log it says "no valid filename/URL for path1 terminted.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Jim

[jon00]

* Note: This was written for the original Pushover Plugin by MrHappy.

One of the limiting functions of pushover or emails/other notification methods is that they can only send one image or attachment at a time. For instance, to send several pictures from an Homeseer trigger via Pushover would require multiple messages.

This utility therefore allows you to combine up to 10 images to make a single new image (stacked above each other) which can then be sent in one message, as shown below (3 images shown):



This is particularly useful for security notifications etc. You can easily scroll this combined image on a mobile/cell phone.

This utility has the following features:

» Capture and save up to 10 image files from local cameras which have snapshot URL capability.
» Combine up to 10 different images from local file paths or captured to a single image.
» Capture the same image multiple times with definable time delay between each capture.
» Resize the final image to reduce its file size.
» Final image filename is always the same so can be used directly in Events/Plugins.
» Optionally send the image via Pushover* without a separate dedicated event.
» Optionally send the image via Email without a separate dedicated event.
» Pushover* & Email subject/message can benefit from the use of Replacement variables providing HS info.

As always, you can download it from my site (Click on my banner below)

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