tchellomello/python-arlo

How to download the latest thumbnail image from each camera?

danieledge opened this issue · 4 comments

danieledge commented

I'm using the below python script (extract) to pull out the last two images from the cameras I have. I actually have 2 cameras, how would I extract the latest image from each camera?

Thanks!

cam = arlo.cameras[0]

printing camera attributes

#cam.serial_number
cam.model_id
cam.unseen_videos

load Arlo videos directly

from pyarlo.media import ArloMediaLibrary
library = ArloMediaLibrary(arlo, days=1)
len(library.videos)

showing a video properties

media = library.videos[0]

displaying thumbnail to stdout

media.download_thumbnail('/home/parallels/arlo/output.jpg')
media = library.videos[1]
media.download_thumbnail('/home/parallels/arlo/output2.jpg')

tchellomello commented

Hello,
Once you have the arlo object you can download it by executing:

cam = arlo.cameras[0]
cam.last_video.download_thumbnail('/tmp/sample.jpg')
tchellomello commented

@danieledge did it work for you?

tchellomello commented

closing this issue for now. @danieledge if you need help, please let us know.

naveeda11 commented

I have probably the same question, problem. I am able to get the latest thumbnail
But subsequent iterations of the loop keep giving me the same thumbnail. The image never refreshes.
If I add the PyArlo instantiation, I will get a fresh image. Do I need to do that?

cam = arlo.cameras[0]
while 1: 
	timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
	fname = "/Users/myusername/python/my-thumb/cam2_{}.jpg".format(timestr)
	cam.last_video.download_thumbnail(fname)
	print("Retrieved thumbnail at " + timestr)
	cam.update()
	time.sleep(30)