Help with Camera instalation
Posted: Sunday 07 July 2019 22:49
Hello everyone.
Ever since last October I am building a domoticz server for home use step by step. I have domoticz installed on a RPi linked with various z-wave products with the RazBerry card on top of the Pi.
So far, my steps have been quite successful, mostly by reading advice from this forum every time I got blocked.
However, the camera step is taking me longer than expected and I have not been able to fix my issues with help from this forum.
My domoticz is:
Version: 4.10717
Build Hash: b38b49e5
Compile Date: 2019-05-09 13:04:08
dzVents Version: 2.4.19
Python Version: 3.5.3 (default, Sep 27 2018, 17:25:39) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
Issue #1
I purchased a Pi camera and plugged it into the RPi wehre domoticz server is installed. The camera works fine and I can see the stream remotely. However, I have setup an event to send me a camera snapshot evertime a presence sensor is activated and I am not home. The event simply does not work. If I configure it to do anything else when presence detected, it works fine.
Any help to move forward?
Issue #2
Ok, it must be the camera, so let's try another simple and cheap camera: D-Link 932L
When setting the camera, the test works fine using the domoticz wiki instruction. However, when I add the camera after the test, the image disappears and no image or stream is included within the domoticz environment. To make things harder, If I enable the event mentioned in issue #1, the event works fine and I receive an email with the presence warning but the file with the image shows no image at all. I purchased the DLink based on the wiki where it says it is compatible.
Any help to get those images on board?
My final goal is to simply have 3 cameras inside the house along with motion sensors. If anybody can advice about the simplest way to achieve it, I shall take the advice and recycle the equipment purchased so far for this purpose.
Many thanks in advance for you help so far and the days to come.
Ever since last October I am building a domoticz server for home use step by step. I have domoticz installed on a RPi linked with various z-wave products with the RazBerry card on top of the Pi.
So far, my steps have been quite successful, mostly by reading advice from this forum every time I got blocked.
However, the camera step is taking me longer than expected and I have not been able to fix my issues with help from this forum.
My domoticz is:
Version: 4.10717
Build Hash: b38b49e5
Compile Date: 2019-05-09 13:04:08
dzVents Version: 2.4.19
Python Version: 3.5.3 (default, Sep 27 2018, 17:25:39) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
Issue #1
I purchased a Pi camera and plugged it into the RPi wehre domoticz server is installed. The camera works fine and I can see the stream remotely. However, I have setup an event to send me a camera snapshot evertime a presence sensor is activated and I am not home. The event simply does not work. If I configure it to do anything else when presence detected, it works fine.
Any help to move forward?
Issue #2
Ok, it must be the camera, so let's try another simple and cheap camera: D-Link 932L
When setting the camera, the test works fine using the domoticz wiki instruction. However, when I add the camera after the test, the image disappears and no image or stream is included within the domoticz environment. To make things harder, If I enable the event mentioned in issue #1, the event works fine and I receive an email with the presence warning but the file with the image shows no image at all. I purchased the DLink based on the wiki where it says it is compatible.
Any help to get those images on board?
My final goal is to simply have 3 cameras inside the house along with motion sensors. If anybody can advice about the simplest way to achieve it, I shall take the advice and recycle the equipment purchased so far for this purpose.
Many thanks in advance for you help so far and the days to come.