How to configure for battery savings? #241
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Preview should not wake it up. But there is an open issues about the push notifications waking it up. There's a branch in testing now to fix this. |
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Hi @QuantumEntangledAndy, how does my config look, because over night it drained a 100% battery. I have since killed the container and it lived the whole night (no motion either night to wake it confirmed by recordings)? |
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Are you using the |
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Hi, no I wasn't using that branch. I'll take a look. What I mean is that the recordings show no motion over night, Indicating that it shouldn't have woken up, so I wouldn't have thought that neolink/ha would use any battery either? |
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The logs should tell you if your connected or not. The config seems fine the important parts being idle_disconnect = true
[cameras.pause]
on_motion = true
on_client = truePerhaps you could post a log so we can see if neolink was indeed connected? |
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Hi @QuantumEntangledAndy, As a result of this, I had been using argus3_disc. I never ended up getting this working as the rtsp stream never worked for me. recently my discussion has got a response from another user suggesting I move to 0.6.2 but it looks like arguse3_disc was never merged? Is there a reason this branch was not merged? How should I be resolving this issue? |
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Hi @QuantumEntangledAndy, I am not going to run these overnight as I don't want it to die again but here is some data v0.6.2 short logHowever, I am seeing in mqtt explorer that the preview is updated about every 3s. When I look at this preview in HA, the timestamp updates suggesting that this is live from camera (hence battery drain). I tried running the branch you suggested, but get an error (shown here). argus3-disc short logComposeversion: '3.8'
services:
neolink:
image: quantumentangledandy/neolink:fix-argus3-disc
command: ["/usr/local/bin/neolink", "mqtt-rtsp", "--config=/etc/neolink.toml"]
container_name: neolink
ports:
- 8554:8554
volumes:
- $PWD/neolink.toml:/etc/neolink.toml
restart: unless-stopped
network_mode: hostLog |
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Ok, understand the issue with vlc. My end goal is to use it in home assistant. I also tried to use generic camera integration and it failed. With the addition of mqtt, I'd guess you're a home assistant user. Do you have a recommended integration? |
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Sorry I know the scope of this discussion has blown out, I can make a new issue if requested. It seems to take a long time to get motion to home assistant for my light automation. I walk outside and see the recording light on the camera and then over 30s later the lights turn on. Could it be related to #253? It looks like it takes time to do anything including turning on the flood light. |
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In addition, for my own knowledge, what does discovery achieve? We configure the uuid and IP? |
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Discovery is the name for the handshakes that occurs prior to login. In the case of udp cameras we exchange various IDs and negotiate things for the connection |
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If you want more details I documented most of it here https://github.com/QuantumEntangledAndy/neolink/blob/master/dissector/udp.md |
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My understanding is that idle disconnect will disconnect the camera on idle for battery savings. Then the further options stop on motion or on clients. However, my understanding is that the MQTT preview wakes and requests the camera repeatedly even without motion?
I am trying to make the view available on demand in home assistant but not when not being viewed so as to save battery, as well as motion, light and battery. It is not entirely clear on how this integration will work into home assistant via mqtt or rtsp.
Edit: I ran with this config overnight and now the camera is flat, so clearly I have something wrong.
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