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Has anyone connected a TP-Link camera?

Steve CA 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated 5 years ago 2
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Post LIVE World Wonder or Beautiful landscape MJPEGs or JPEGs here

Reece D Eoff 6 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Fadi Hamdan 5 years ago 4

I wanted to start a post about LIVE or CURRENT world wonder or vacation spot webcam images that update multiple times a day.


I have 2 to share:


University of Texas Tower:




St Peters Basilica:



CAN ANYONE FIND THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA? I'VE LOOKED FOR HOURS.


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Blink camera integration feature request

Mike North 7 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 1 1 duplicate

the Rboy blink app has been updated which says it will allow action tiles to show images from cameras.  can this be added to action tiles so we can see the latest image from the cameras in a panel?


https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-official-blink-camera-device-handler-with-motion-sensor-live-video-streaming-integration-with-smartthings-shm-temperature-signals-and-push-notifications/40535


it would be great, since it already takes an image when it sees motion, then ideally the tile in the panel would refresh with the latest image.  streaming on demand, like you can in the blink app or from ST, would be great, but also a hazard for battery life.

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Amazon has acquired Blink, and shortly before the acquisition, Blink pulled all direct SmartThings integrated support and related APIs.

At this time, there is no indication from Amazon as to what they will be doing with the product line and what sort of 3rd party integrations they will provide (except IFTTT), if any. Integration opportunities for small companies is often not aligned with that of larger vendors. Amazon would perhaps first introduce an official integration with SmartThings, given the intersecting popularity of the products ... but that's just a guess. Perhaps Amazon wishes to keep the system closed for security and/or to protect their other strategic smart home plans.

Until the merger and Blink's products evolve accordingly, we are putting aside ("Deferring") this Topic indefinitely.



Latest News...


The Blink Forum may be the best place to advocate and follow developments in this regard. No one has more influence over Blink than their Customers ... right?


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MTG News feed should handle Unicode (Hebrew, etc.) fonts

Zvika 5 years ago in Media Tiles updated 5 years ago 2

Hi 

Testing action tiles and very pleased so far .

I'm trying to add new feed in hebrew

this is the xml feed 

http://www.ynet.co.il/Integration/StoryRss1854.xml

I encoded it as describes and constructed this url 

https://mtg.actiontiles.com/news.php?titleColor=00FF00&bodyColor=ffffff&backgroundColor=000000&src=aHR0cDovL3d3dy55bmV0LmNvLmlsL0ludGVncmF0aW9uL1N0b3J5UnNzMTg1NC54bWw=

You can see the results .

Any Ideas ? 

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Best doorbell for ActionTiles?

New here and looking for advice. 


I am looking for the best doorbell that integrates well with ActionTiles. I have a Ring (1st gen) and I don't mind switching it out. I want this tablet to be in an office. Ideally when someone rings the doorbell I would like the video feed full screen, and I also want an action tile that unlocks my schlage z-wave lock (smartthings adt hub) with another tile that locks the door. 


Also, while I'm here, what is the best tablet to use for ActionTiles? I've read through the forums a bit and they all differ, though I see a lot of people using the Fire 8 tablet, as well as the samsung tablets. Is there one that seems to give less issues, especially when dealing with video?

Thanks for any help / advice.

Mark

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SmartWeather Station Tile location issues - just started recently

KevinA 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 1

I've been using the SmartWeather Station Tile for almost a year without issue. In the last few days, it has started showing me weather for a city in France. Upon investigation, I find that this town in France has the same postal code as my city in the U.S. The tile seems to go back and forth between the two. Where does this tile get its location information?


The zip code in the Tile Settings in ActionTiles is correct, and my SmartThings hub location is correct.

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Hi Kevin,

Please remove the postal code entirely. SmartThings has recently changed the Weather API. The SmartWeather Station Tile should be taking coordinates from your hub's location.

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Add 2nd camera feed to AT?

Johnny Adams 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated 5 years ago 8

Hi there... 

I have a Reolink NVR + 4 Camera kit... I purchased TinyCam Pro, and followed TaylorTech's Youtube on how to set up into AT... although his video was for WyzeCams.

I added the IP address ... and log in and password, and Camera 1 showed up in TinyCam app... and also in the TinyCam web browser as per TaylorTech did.. 

But... my problem is that if I do it the way TaylorTech has, and entered the same details for my second cam, but changing to channel 2 for the second cam... it shows camera 1's feed... so end up with 2 feeds showing from same camera.

I went to AT and added Camera 1 into my panel, and it shows up perfect... so I am doing that right.

Am I right in thinking that the IP is for the NVR and it is only able to show the first camera? Or is there something blatantly obvious that I am missing? 

I'm unsure what other details you guys may need to assist, and did not want to ramble on with the whole set up... so ask away if you need any further info.

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Moon phase Media Tile links

Reece D Eoff 6 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Ben Godfrey 5 years ago 3

Just wanted to share these 2 links I found for moon phases. The first is a computer generated image that only has 8 different moon phases (about 3-4 days for each phase) but the new moon and possibly the full moon phases stay for a half day max. The second link is a navy provided link that provides an actual image of the literal moon that they seem to update everyday.



Link 1 (Computer Generated) :


http://www.moonphaseinfo.com/moon.php



Link 2 (Navy Moon Image) :



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Zmodo Camera

Patrick McCabe 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 5

What is the latest on the Zmodo camera?. Do they work well they with ActionTile? Can you show multiple Zmodo's on Action Times at same time? Thanks in advanced

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Blue Iris NVR Controls Integration (iFrame?)

Keaton Hoskins 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 0

I was looking to follow what others were doing on this previous topic: https://support.actiontiles.com/communities/12/topics/1072-blue-iris-support but I was not wanting the video to be directly displayed, and I wanted to allow for the use of the web based NVR to be used. Blue Iris (BI) houses all my cameras, too many to display in tiles and I didn't want to manage links to them all... :|

I found that BI has a built in web NVR control that I can link to. If you use the following format and set the url link tile to "Open shortcut in the same window", it loads perfectly.

URI: http://WANIP:PORT/ui3.htm?user=USERNAME&pw=PASSWORD

I am using Kindle Fire 8" for my ActionTiles setup.

Android Fire
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Blue Iris support

M a S e 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 66 1 duplicate

Opening this thread to explore the option to officially support Blue Iris security Cameras software.

  • BI is the most used and popular security cameras software out there.
  • It has its own authentication and also support https.
  • Would be awesome to have official support for it and eliminate the need to redirect RTSP by using VLC or opening different ports and exposing each camera separately.
  • Having BI Support is something i personally would LOVE to see.


Android Fire iOS Mac Windows
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Working Solution for Blue Iris Integration into Action Tiles that features;


  1. Over standard HTTPS with User / Pass Authentication
  2. More than 6 cameras coming from same BI server
  3. Full MJPG


For the TLDR version, basically run Apache web server as a reverse proxy to the BI  server and have multiple sub domains reverse peroxided to BI, with each one supporting 6 concurrent connections in Chrome.     


Now in in depth how my setup works:


1) Blue Iris is configured as below:



2) Apache's httpd-ssl.conf file is configured as follows.  (Only relevant sections, not full httpd-ssl.conf file!)


Download httpd-ssl.conf File.



3) Urls used with Action Tiles:


First 6 Cams: https://cctv.mydomain.com/mjpg/ShortCamName/video.mjpg?user=BIUSER&pw=BIPASSWORD


Next 6 Cams: https://cctv2.mydomain.com/mjpg/ShortCamName/video.mjpg?user=BIUSER&pw=BIPASSWORD




And that is pretty much it; however it is worth noting:


  • I only have 9 cams, so only need two sub-domains. Additional sub domains can of course be created, with each one supporting 6 concurrent connections to the BI server.

           I suspect Chrome regards each sub-domain (what is then reverse peroxided to the BI server) as a 

           separate destination/resource/server.


  • I have a static WAN IP, however you may use a DDNS service if you don't have access to a static WAN IP.



  • My Router/Firewall has Port 80 and Port 443 opened to the local IP of my Apache web server. (Same physical server as BI)



Hope someone finds this useful!



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Foscam Streaming in AT?

Gblaze 75 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 3

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone have a Foscam IP camera that they cannot stream in AT? I used to be able to do this with the legacy Action Dashboard. Now, any of the URL's that i plug in doesn't work. 

http://ipaddress:port/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?usr=xxx&pwd=xxx&cmd=setSubStreamFormat&format=1

http://ipaddress:port/cgi-bin/CGIStream.cgi?cmd=GetMJStream&usr=xxx&pwd=xxx

rtsp://admin:admin@ipaddress:port/videoMain

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Media Tile Sunrise Sunset Graphic

Charley Rathkopf 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Images updated 5 years ago 3

Does anyone have a link for a graphic that indicates the sunrise and sunset times, and perhaps the location of the sun on its arch through the sky?

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Help using Foscam R2 V3 with iSpy Connect?

Son Lee 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by scotsman2k 5 years ago 2 1 duplicate

I had purchased a Samsung Smart Cam and was looking to integrate into actiontiles and was told it wouldn't work because it used rtsp.

So I did some research and saw a lot of people were using Foscam cameras. So I picked one up. I got the Foscam R2 V3.

I'm able to login to it using the local ip address and whatnot. but I can't use the same address for ActionTiles.

So I figured Id try integrating it through iSpy which I read a lot of people were doing with cameras as well. I got the camera integrated into ispy fine, but cant find the IP that software uses to see if that will integrate into ActionTiles.

Can you offer any help of any kind?

Thank

Cristiano

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Integrate General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

tbarber4 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic 0

Fringe case but used in many metro areas. Google Transit Feed Spec has a standard for transit times. 

Not sure how the interface would look or the calls for specific stops would be handled (by actiontiles or a call)

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Ability to fix the State of a Tile via Long Press

PROEDGEBIKER COM 6 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 5

The https://bondhome.io/ app has an awesome feature to "fix" the status of their tiles. 


For example, if someone turns my fan light using the fan remote, my BOND app would not show as the light is on. In order to fix it, I just hold down any tile in their app (in this case the fan light tile) and it corrects the status of the tile. 


So by holding it down it changes the tile from off to showing on without sending a command to the fan. 


If a feature like that could be added for your tiles would be awesome. 


Hope this made sense.

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Thanks for the feedback / idea...

Some Feature Requests fall into the bucket of being too much of a "rare edge case" or have other practicality issues, that we are unlikely to give it much consideration. Sure... we'll keep the Topic open for a while in case we have underestimated interest and it gathers Votes or additional use-case comments.


So there's two concerns:

  1. "Long Press" is not a gesture option for a Material Design (and "Accessible") compliant web-app. Long press should reveal the text tooltip in most cases (like a hover with a mouse). I use Nova Launcher for Android, and, indeed, it recognizes all sorts of unique gestures, such as long-press and swipe-across-icon. We don't plan to add this hidden layer of complexity to ActionTiles; but it could happen in some far future generation. So if we offered special functionality like this, it would have to be via the standard Tile overflow menu (...).
  2. We know there are various types of Devices that do not relay their State Changes back to SmartThings (and, in turn, ActionTiles) when acted upon manually or via some other type of control like Alexa Voice. Even certain brands of Z-Wave light-switches may not report manual activation, due to a patent restriction from Lutron. Still ... we don't think it should be a household member's responsibility to "manually" fix or override the Tile State, especially since that still leaves the SmartThings Cloud out of sync (and thus the SmartThings App and any SmartApps that subscribe to the Device, etc.). Many Device Type Handlers periodically "poll" the physical device to determine if the State has changed and thus eventually update. In other cases, the displayed state is not critical, since if the fan has been turned "on" via remote and the Tile still indicates "off", simply tapping the tile twice will ensure it is turned "off" (i.e., first tap will switch the Tile to "on" and send the on() command to the Fan (which should be harmlessly ignored; and the second tap will switch the Tile to "off" and send the off() command to the Fan, resulting in the desired consistent state).

There is no mechanism in ActionTiles to change the State of a Tile without it having (a) been tapped, and/or (b) receiving a State Change Event from SmartThings.


Thanks,

...Terry.

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Help getting Media Tile URL from NOAA satellite?

Willis 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 4

I found this link:  https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES16_CONUS_Band.php?band=GEOCOLOR&length=72


Which has a really cool looking weather .GIF loop.  However, the way the site is setup, I cannot turn it into a Media tile.  Anyone have any ideas on how show the loop in a tile?

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Nest Cam (Hello) Tile issues on Fire tablets

RonA 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated 6 years ago 3

I have Actiontiles working great with the Nest Hello doorbell video streaming in an action tile.   Works on desktops and most tablets, but it is a blank tile on all Fire Tablets.


I even tried developer mode in 5.6.x in FireOS and tested various setting but the tile still does not show up.   I was wanting my doorbell feed to be on my dashboard but this is now a showstopper since i dont want to devote an iPad for the screen.


Please let me know any workarounds!!


Thanks!

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Traffic conditions

Markmm 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by anonymous 6 years ago 1

I'm trying to find a way to add on a tile (Fire tablet) for traffic conditions in Honolulu using this link but I can't get it to work.  Please let me know if this is possible or not.  Also if there is a way to zoom in that would help too.  Thank you


http://www.goakamai.org/home

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Media Tile Data Reload Questions

Willis 6 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

Since Google has started charging for the use of the Maps API, I've changed the way I'm using the Shield.io call for real-time travel time and I want to make sure I understand how/when the Media Tile makes data calls.  Here are the specific questions:

1.  If the "Refresh rate for still images or GIFs" parameter is left blank, for a "still image or GIF" then will the url will only be called or updated when the panel is loaded, reloaded, or the media tile is clicked?

2.  If the "Refresh rate" is set to something else (say 600 seconds), is the url called every 600 seconds regardless of if the media tile is on an active panel, or does it get called regardless?

3.  If I have ActionTiles running on multiple devices simultaneously, does each device make independent update calls or is there a single update call shared by the devices? 

4.  Finally, is there a way to set media refresh rates to be more frequent during the day and less frequent during the evening?


I know that Google is offering the first $200 of use for free, but five minute traffic updates for three travel locations exceeds the 20,000 API calls that that $200 covers.