Hmm... I updated my code in the original post again... switched from retrieving videos from a download URL to using the recording_download() method which also puts a timestamp in the video which i find nifty (nice tip @mikef !). Still have not cracked the "always behind by one event" - i can can see ...

the API only seems to work in such a way that each new event retrieves only the video from the event before it - so you are always one event behind I've reverted to version 0.1.0 (non-threading). Although by no means exhaustive testing, I seem to be able to save the current event by using the ...

@all,

FYI, another update to the code here: viewtopic.php?p=282381#p282381

I think I will call it quits here. This meets my needs and seems to work nicely (until they change the API or rate limit / block me )

Hello, Excuse my ignorance, but do I have to install the tchellomello script first? :oops: https://github.com/tchellomello/python-ring-doorbell yes that's right... see point 1 in my post above. But.... make sure you have pip3 installed first and to be sure you dont install a pip2 version of the ...

Hi All, I have been playing with this some more and have expanded my original code and made it a little more robust, added multithreading, added multi device support, event type detection and logging, descriptive event type in saved file names, and more... Original post has been updated with the new ...

MikeF wrote: ↑Tuesday 16 November 2021 10:57 Many thanks - that worked! Would have helped if I'd read point 7 in @DomoRobotto's post properly!

Oh... to be fair, i added point 7 after your confused post regarding this matter. No worries! Glad you got it to work!

Can you try to change the two instances of in the code example above to something else unique for you?

https://github.com/tchellomello/python- ... -874319220

Hi all, I see a lot of people struggling and I am not sure this will help but i spent an hour or so today to get this working for my intended use case and will share some working code in the event it helps any of you. ***Working as of the date of this post*** First some prerequisites: 1) You must ...