Copy/Paste/Push a Darn Image Help

#1

**1) Give a description of the issue **

So it is a simple piston, in concept, if motion is detected by my camera, I want the camera to take a snapshot image and send the image to me either as a push or SMS

2) What is the expected behavior?
See above

3) What is happening/not happening?
I know how to do a SMS/Push Action and I see the action to take a picture, BUT how do I physically grab this image and push it out. I have been told that a limitation of ST is that images just stay in a vacuum of nothingness.

4) Post a Green Snapshot of the pistonimage

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5) Attach any logs (From ST IDE and by turning logging level to Full)

#5

Sorry… tell a ST camera to take a photo and that image is stuck in a ST black hole, and then deleted after 7 days.

#6

:frowning: That stinks.

#7

There is a Beta feature in the works… but it’s not open to general users yet and won’t be until the paid extras of webCoRE get released (it’s server heavy and takes loads of storage)

#8

What sort of stuff does this “beta feature” entail?

#9

sending you a camera snapshot via SMS

#10

Any movement on this? I’m trying to figure out how to send a snapshot from tinycam pro via SMS. I think I can get the image from a GET request to the feed, but I can’t figure out how to send that over.

#11

any updates? I have the ability to get the snapshot from my camera (http link) but that image is… dynamic, meaning each time i visit that URL, i get the most current view of what the camera sees. not exactly what i would like so, i need a way to ‘save’ that image that i’ve captured ($response to teh HTTP GET) then send a link via SMS\IFTTT\etc to that file.

any help on this would be greatly appreciated

#12

Though tested and working, the storage requirements / privacy issues were too great to roll out this feature. The snapshots would have had to be stored on webCoRE servers, unlike everything else we do on webCoRE witch gets stored on SmartThings.

webCoRE was designed ground up to avoid storing your personal data.

You should look into storing your snapshots on Google Drive and retrieving those links instead.

Google Script can make GET requests to your cameras & webCoRE, store images and receive & respond to triggers from webCoRE.

#13

Thanks @Robin

#14

no way to save that as a file to say a local NAS connected to the home network?