I know it’s not much, but how can I turn off the vibration that occurs when you press a button in Home Buddy 0.28?
I’m also having the problem with a blank screen when streaming from my Foscam. The still is okay (when on wifi- doesn’t work at all on the cellular network) but either the screen is black (when over wifi) or the app crashed (when over the cellular network- I just lodged a report via Android’s built-in reporting mechanism).
If you’ve fixed the video issue, when can we expect a new app version?
I could add an option to disable tactile feedback in a future release. Can I ask why you want to disable it though? Is it annoying? Do you have a preference to how you’d like the app to confirm that it is sending your command? What about vibrations from activating scenes, would you prefer to disable those as well?
Unfortunately, I can’t really tell from the error report what the issue with the Foscam camera is. Can you send me your user data?
Mostly the vibration is just annoying. Part of it is the vibration and part of it is the associated noise from the vibrate motor. If I’m surreptitiously trying to use this app during a meeting, the noise just brings unwanted attention.
For the previous version, I was using the “Command successfully sent” message as the feedback mechanism. With 0.28 there’s a bit too much latency for that… Actually, maybe not- just testing now the latency isn’t as bad as a couple of days ago.
Now it seems that the state of the devices gets updated relatively quickly (a few seconds). This also gives positive feedback that the action has occurred, not just that the app has recognized that the button has been pressed (the long vibrate for an error condition is also annoying, but understandable. I’d still just like the on-screen error message) or that the command has been sent.
The camera issues fixed themselves even with 0.28 (maybe a phone reset helped?) except still no streaming video. The pan and tilt work and the stills also now show, so I’m not too concerned with the streaming.
I have a Panasonic BL-131a with UI5 so that I know works in Home Buddy. One thing to note though is that, initially, I had set the camera up in UI4 before upgrading and had some problems. I removed then re-added the camera and that’s when it started working for me.
I have another user who reports that his Vera returns the wrong URL for his Foscam. Here’s how to check if you have the same problem:
If testing locally, try the following URL replacing with the proper values
http://:49451/data_request?id=lu_camera_port&DeviceNum=
If accessing remotely, use one of the following instead: https://fwd1.mios.com////data_request?id=lu_camera_port&DeviceNum= https://fwd2.mios.com////data_request?id=lu_camera_port&DeviceNum=
If successful, Vera will give you back a link… click the link to see if you get a valid MJPEG stream. If not, then obviously Home Buddy can’t stream it – garbage in, garbage out.
I know streaming does not work for me as I get an empty url. This is why I brought it up with MCV and I got word that it is most likely broken. Still need to confirm. I am running foscam cameras. So implementing streaming in my app will be pretty hard to do with out a working setup.
I know streaming does not work for me as I get an empty url. This is why I brought it up with MCV and I got word that it is most likely broken. Still need to confirm. I am running foscam cameras. So implementing streaming in my app will be pretty hard to do with out a working setup.
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It works for me with my Vera Lite, had to go into the advanced settings for my camera (FI8910W) and set the DirectStreamingURL to /videostream.cgi. Haven’t tried it remotely yet, but works just fine on my home network for viewing streaming video via HomeBuddy.
Correct it should work fine internally, it is on the outside that may be an issue. Did you have to enter the DirectStreamingURL into the advanced tab manually or was it already there? MCVFlorin informed me that DirectStreamingURL is not used anymore.
[quote=“garrettwp, post:9, topic:171525”]Correct it should work fine internally, it is on the outside that may be an issue. Did you have to enter the DirectStreamingURL into the advanced tab manually or was it already there? MCVFlorin informed me that DirectStreamingURL is not used anymore.
I was looking briefly at that earlier, but haven’t had a chance to track down the exact fu needed for my camera. It’s likely I can simply cut and paste those examples and have em work, but I’d like to be sure it matches camera capabilities first. I’ll do a bit more experimenting over the weekend and see what I can come up with and report back.
What’s interesting is that the automatic setup for the camera didn’t include the DirectStreamingURL and HomeBuddy wouldn’t stream without it. Once entered I was able to get video (and pan) internally, altho external testing failed as anticipated.
Messed around with various permutations of values for VideoURLs and came up with shades of fail all around. First issue was that setting the variable lost me any kind of panning control via web ui. The normal buttons simply disappeared, no amount of tapping on the stream would work either. Panning via HB still worked however, so guessing that’s just a ui5 bug.
While I was still able to stream to HB locally, remote attempts failed with the “host cannot be null” error and logcat confirmed it was indeed trying to access user:pass/videostreaming.cgi (no host/IP). I also tried unsetting DirctStreamingURL but that just resulted in zero ability to view the stream via any method.
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