last_recording_id

[10der]

Hi!

maybe we should add check like
if event["recording"]["status"] == "ready" ?

for example, doorbell has motion.
now we should be waiting for the complete video and after - we ready to process this video

raw (schematically) code:

    n = 0
    while True:
         try:
            event = doorbell.history(limit=1)[0]
            last_recording_id = event['id']
            if event["recording"]["status"] == "ready":
               url = doorbell.recording_url(last_recording_id)
               subprocess.call (['wget', url, '-O', '/home/pi/ring/last_video.mp4'])          
               break
         except:
            pass

         n+=1
	 if n > 5:
            break
         time.sleep(1)

[tchellomello]

Hello @10der, thanks for your comment.

Could you elaborate what kind of issue you are hitting?

Thanks
mmello

[budachst]

I'd saym he's been hitting the same issue, as I have. Once there's an alarm of motion or ring, the last_recording_fetched is always of the previous alarm, since the new video hasn't been made available yet. Further more, querying the print(doorbell.recording_url(doorbell.last_recording_id)), as statet in the examples always generated a new random URL, so one can't know, if the currently fetched URL really is the latest video.

I wonder, if this is even possible…

[tzbailey]

The code below worked for me

def download_ring_vid:
   auth = Auth()
   auth.fetch_token(username, password)
   ring = Ring(auth)
   doorbell = ring.doorbells[0]
   json = live_streaming_json_fixed(doorbell)
   try:
       new_id = json['id']
   except:
       url = API_URI + DINGS_ENDPOINT
       doorbell.update()

       resp = doorbell._ring.query(url)
       new_id = resp['id']
   recording_id = doorbell.last_recording_id

   while new_id != recording_id:
       print("Waiting for Video File...")
       time.sleep(2)
       doorbell.update()
       recording_id = doorbell.last_recording_id
       print("New ID: "+str(new_id))
       print("Old ID: "+str(recording_id))
   
   for event in doorbell.history(limit=1):
       for i in range(3):
           try:
               print('Downloading Event ID:       %s' % event['id'])
               filename = str(event['id'])+'.mp4'
               doorbell.recording_download(event['id'],filename=working_dir + filename,override=True)
               break
           except:
               print("Download error, retrying attempt "+str(i))
               time.sleep(1)
               continue
def live_streaming_json_fixed(self):
   """Return JSON for live streaming."""
   url = API_URI + LIVE_STREAMING_ENDPOINT.format(self.account_id)
   req = self._ring.query((url), method='POST')
   print(req.status_code)
   if req and req.status_code == 200:
       url = API_URI + DINGS_ENDPOINT
       try:
           return self._ring.query(url).json()[0] 
       except (IndexError, TypeError):
           pass
   return None