Direct Download Snapshot

Completed

February 25, 2020 16:51

API request similar to Direct Download video for getting a snapshot would be useful.
(I am actually surprised this function does not already exist, or if it does, I've missed it)

GET/hls/<cameraId>.<format> try method

Download snapshot of a camera archive, identified by its timestamp. It is not exactly an API method but rather a URL format which may contain any camera id (can be obtained from "id", "physicalId" or "logicalId" field via /ec2/getCamerasEx) or MAC address (not supported for certain cameras). Snapshot can be downloaded in .jpg or .png format. Example: http://<server_ip>:<port>/hls/12AB42FD5912.jpg?pos=2015-02-05T19:00

Parameters

Name	Description	Optional
pos	Snapshot time (as a string containing time in milliseconds since epoch, or a local time formatted like "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.zzz" - the format is auto-detected).	true
	If no pos provided, then get “live” snapshot For snapshot from archive, if hi/low not specified, default to hi if available, low if not? It would be awesome if the filename included the timestamp.

Result

Snapshot in the requested format

Comments

8 comments

Nx Support

February 25, 2020 16:56
Hi Paul,

Please check the documentation for /ec2/cameraThumbnail method. I think it should solve the problem.
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paul chandler

February 25, 2020 17:00
LoL, please don't tell me that has been there all along. You just added that right?
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Nx Support

February 25, 2020 19:22
Actually, we just improved our time-lapse technology to deliver system updates to the past. It is still in beta.
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paul chandler

March 29, 2020 15:26
In the documentation you have the time string as needing a unix timestamp. Which works of course but I have also used a formatted date_time which works too, other than the milliseconds are not respected…. It would be awesome if they were! That way I wouldn’t have to check the server TZ for the offset.
Consider that an official feature request.

/ec2/cameraThumbnail?cameraId=00-00-00-00-00-00&method=precise&time=2020-03-26T12:00:01.250
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Nx Support

March 29, 2020 15:36
Thank you Paul, we will do it
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paul chandler

March 29, 2020 18:37
Great! Thanks,

If you end up implementing that, I wouldn't mind an early look at it.;-)
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Permanently deleted user

May 01, 2020 20:31
Hi Paul, I'm checking the history and looks like 4.1 beta version supports this.
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paul chandler

May 01, 2020 22:09
Cool! Thanks for letting me know. I'll give it at try this weekend.
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Direct Download Snapshot

GET/hls/<cameraId>.<format> try method

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