Take picture at a certain timing or at certain time interval and send it to email or save it into a folder

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March 26, 2021 06:00

Hi,

I am quite new to nx witness, would like to know how can i capture the picture at a certain timing everyday and send it to email?

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how can i capture the picture at a certain time interval and save it into a folder?

as i am quite new to this technology, is it possible to list down the steps needed in configuring the task above?

 

Many thanks in advance

Warmest regards,

Andy

 

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  Wendy Chuang

  • Network Optix team

  March 29, 2021 06:41 Edited

  Hi @...,

  1. Take a snapshot and send it to email every day at a certain timing

  Please refer to the article here for the example of a Generic event. Typically, you could do the following configuration to achieve your goal,
  1) In Nx, set up a camera rule to send an email when receiving the Generic event(Remember to configure the global mail setting first).
  2) Write a script to send the generic event and execute it at a certain timing every day. 

   

  2. Take a snapshot and save it to the folder

  Nx provides /ec2/cameraThumbnail API to take a snapshot at a specific time. Thus, you need to 
  1) Write a script to call the Nx Mediaserver API and save the thumbnail to your local filesystem.
  2) Run the script regularly at the required timing.

  Thank you.

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  Shane O'Connell

  July 27, 2021 03:40

  Hello -

  I am looking to do this same thing, do you have an example for creating the script and saving it into a local folder? I am looking into the API but haven't done it before so am learning on this one. 

  I need to save a daily picture into a folder on a construction site. 

  Thanks!

  Shane

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  Wendy Chuang

  • Network Optix team

  July 27, 2021 04:24

  Hi Shane O'Connell,

  My colleague has written an example script for the snapshot tool. Feel free to download it here and play with it. If periodically capturing is required, you could run the script with the OS native scheduler:
  - Ubuntu crontab
  - Windows task scheduler

  Thank you.

   

   

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  Shane O'Connell

  July 27, 2021 09:14

  I will try it out, thank you very much!

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