Email Attachment - Device Status Contains File Path

[jzimmer238]

I am trying to email an attachment that has its path stored in the device status of device 522. On the attachment line I can enter the file path below and the email will send. The path changes each time the device is updated so I am trying to use a replacement variable. I have tried $$DSR:522: $$DSC:522: and $$DSA:522: but these do not result in an attachment being sent. I can return the path in the script commands tool using hs.CapiGetStatus(522).Status and hs.replacevariables("$$DSR:522:") but these do not work in the attachment line. Thanks in advance for your help.

John

[AllHailJ]

Have you considered using the script that is using hs.CapiGetStatus to copy the file to a fixed name and location? Understand that this is not preferred but it is a viable work around.

[jzimmer238]

Thanks for the suggestion. That should work but I have not found any examples of using Capi to copy a file to a new location and rename it. Do you have any examples?

[AllHailJ]

Here is an example

Imports System.IO

Sub Main(ByVal parms As Object)[I] ' Copy one file to a new location.
Dim dvStatus as String

dvStatus = hs.CapiGetStatus(1234).Status

Try[/I]

[U]File.Copy[/U](dvStatus, "C:\HS4\temp.jpg", True)[I] 'the True means overwrite if the file exists

Catch ex as Exception
  hs.WriteLog("CopyFile", ex.Message)
  Exit Sub
End Try

hs.WriteLog("CopyFile", "e-mail file copied to static location")[/I]

End Sub

Hope this helps you

[jzimmer238]

Thank you very much!! I spent 3 hours trying to come up with a way to get the file emailed. In my event I had it run this script and entered the static path c\HS4\temp.jpg for the attachment and the file is sent.

With this project I am processing alert images from Blue Iris that are being served to a local AI called DeepStack. The middle ware that serves the images to DeepStack is On-Guard. On-Guard relays the objects identified via MQTT. I use the mcsMQTT plugin for the MQTT broker. Based on conditions in HomeSeer I trigger other events, send email, trigger Blue Iris to record the event or ignore the object and do nothing.