Sorry guys wasn’t sure which category to choose.
For users of webCoRE and D-Link cameras: why do the cameras show up as switches and dimmers? What would the dim command do in a webCoRE piston? Can you actually turn the camera off? Also it shows as a notification device - how can it give notifications?
WebCoRE is device agonistic… it just reads the capabilities listed at the top of the device handler and offers up commands to match.
The handler for your camera must contain capability dimmer and actuator for you to be seeing those commands.
The only way to know what they do, if anything, is to test test test (and report back for the benefit of all CoREkind)
@Robin once agin you’ve impressed me with your brilliance! Great suggestion! Some of the commands don’t seem to do anything that I can tell, but one thing that I discovered is this ability to show snapshots I. The device history like this…
Now my question is this: those snapshots are obviously stored someplace if I’m able to see them in the SmartThings app, but where? Can webCoRE access them so I could email them or text them to me?
I’m afraid not… there is no API available to access images stored in the ST cloud, and St deletes them after 7 days.
Say what?! You’re killing me. That’s an improvement over what I had before, but still wish it was possible to do something with the file.
Can you help me with one other thing? How do you use the capture() command? Do I need to set parameters or have anything between those parenthesis?
I’d expect capture to take a snapshot??
If it needs added parameters I’d have to see the device handler code to work out what that should be.
If he is using the D-Link DTH by blebson for his DCS-942L, which I assume, he would use “Take a Picture” to get a snapshot. However, as you noted, that file is only stored internally on ST.
To get a snapshot stored to his SD card, or uploaded to FTP, I believe he would have to enable Motion Detection (which is possible using WebCoRE), but first he would have to create the proper settings in the D-Link Setup Wizard under “Snapshot.”
Here’s the link to the DTH if it helps:
Ok I wasn’t sure I’d capture was capture video. For the handler I’m using this one, but sure who created at as it seems the recent account migration wiped out all my github respositories I had setup.
It’s created via this smartapp…
