camerapi take photo node not working

[Maurice Freeman]

Hi,

my Pi camera is installed and works fine takes pictures with Raspicam. 

However in node-red with a simple setup using just a timestamp to trigger camera node I always get msg.payload: string(0) and it does not save the image. I have tried using default  save location and also others.

What am I doing wrong here? Any advice is appreciated as I don't know where to go next.

Thanks

Mauri

[Mark Setrem]

Could you post your flow?

[Maurice Freeman]

Just a simple 3 node flow. Thanks

On Monday, 16 January 2017 00:17:54 UTC+11, Mark Setrem wrote:

Could you post your flow?

[Mark Setrem]

Unfortunately the image you posted doesn't appear (see below) you can also export your flow in node-red 

1. highlight the nodes you wish to export
   
2. go to the menu > export > clipboard
3. select the options and then "Export to clipboard"  

[Maurice Freeman]

Hi Mark,

This is the flow. Thanks for taking the time to assist me.

[Maurice Freeman]

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[Zenofmud]

I think by ‘could you post your flow’ Mark meant

1) in NR select all the parts of the flow

2) in the upper right of the window, click the hamburger icon

3) move the cursor to ‘Export’ and then to ‘Clipboard’

4) copy the results and paste into a reply

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[Maurice Freeman]

Hi Mark,

Here is my flow. Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated.

[{"id":"fde7e552.4f8ee8","type":"inject","z":"d352a269.42ad2","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"x":202,"y":164,"wires":[["eae22fc8.dd34f"]]},{"id":"eae22fc8.dd34f","type":"camerapi-takephoto","z":"d352a269.42ad2","filemode":"1","filename":"","filedefpath":"1","filepath":"","fileformat":"jpeg","resolution":"1","fliph":"0","flipv":"0","name":"","x":487,"y":164,"wires":[["9cb470db.029fc"]]},{"id":"9cb470db.029fc","type":"debug","z":"d352a269.42ad2","name":"","active":true,"console":"false","complete":"false","x":754,"y":165,"wires":[]}]

[Mark Setrem]

i’m not infront of a computer, but from the flow you posted you appear to have left the filename config box blank.  But you aren’t sending the node a filename in the inject (see info panel of node).

What happens if you :

1. Type a filename into the node config window
2. Set the directory to one you know exists such as /home/pi/  

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[Maurice Freeman]

Hi Mark,

Thanks so much. This has sorted it out. I had the incorrect directory or permissions for it.

Your help is much appreciated.

Kind regards

Mauri

[shykitten55]

Hi folks.

I was passing by and needed a camera control node and thought I would give it a go.

My "need" is to take pictures and they are saved on the same Pi.  So maybe this is not what I need.  I don't know.

The instructions are a bit vague and/or confusing.  There are three modes:  File Mode; Generate; Buffer mode.  Yet the "instructions" call them 1, 2 and 0.

Granted it defaults to the ~/Pictures directory to save, but when you change it to another one (under Pictures) every time you go to the edit mode, it defaults back to the default.

I also can't for the life of me work out how the file names are made/generated.
For this project/flow  YearMonthDateHourMinSec.jpg would do.

I'm getting a file name longer than the Mississippi river, which makes it painful for the next stage.

Is this the right node for what I am wanting to do?

[Colin Law]

For us to answer that we need to know the correct name of the node.
Possibly something like node-red-contrib-something. There may (or may
not) be multiple nodes that might match your description.

Colin

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[Cat]

The node's name is in the subject.

Cameapitakephoto.

I didn't say it because I thought that was what this thread was about.

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[Cat]

These are the two flows I made:

First one is the "Take photo" flow, the second on is the remote control

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[Colin Law]

Do you mean this one [1]? node-red-contrib-camerapi?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-camerapi

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[Cat]

Yup.

Seems I have to do some learning on the msg.payload part of it to manipulate tit and rename that to get a more "readable" filename.

I'm just not used to the idea that msg.payload is the photo.

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On 24 September 2017 at 12:01, Cat <fuzzywu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup.

So the full name of the node is not in the subject, it is
node-red-contrib-camerapi. The reason I had to ask is that there may
be more than one node that appears to be called camerapi.

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> Seems I have to do some learning on the msg.payload part of it to manipulate
> tit and rename that to get a more "readable" filename.
>

Not sure what you mean by that. According to the info tab you can
pass in a filename if you want it to write it to a file.

Colin