Ispy and off premises storage using AWS S3

Nice little windows program for surveillance using webcams.   Offloading snapshots and videos to s3 storage using s3cmd and monitoring video directory structure with inotify.  Windows storage is set to save files on windows samba mount provided by linux vm running on same windows machine (inotify does not work with network drives).  Good enough for now, but need to better organize uploads.  Perhaps by webcam and need to filter out thumbnails.

My script: #! /bin/bash folder=/home/directory/Videos cdate=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M") inotifywait -m -e create -r --format '%w%f' $folder | while read file do echo "Working file '$file'" s3cmd put $file s3://cloudbucket/ispy/ done

Web commands working with ispy:
<command id="0" name="cmd_Switch all on" command="ispy ALLON" smscommand="ALL ON" /> <command id="1" name="cmd_Switch all off" command="ispy ALLOFF" smscommand="ALL OFF" /> <command id="2" name="cmd_Apply schedule" command="ispy APPLYSCHEDULE" smscommand="APPLY SCHEDULE" /> <command id="3" name="cmd_Record on detect all" command="ispy RECORDONDETECTON" smscommand="RECORDONDETECTON" /> <command id="4" name="cmd_Record on alert all" command="ispy RECORDONALERTON" smscommand="RECORDONALERTON" /> <command id="5" name="cmd_Record off all" command="ispy RECORDOFF" smscommand="RECORDOFF" /> <command id="6" name="cmd_All alerts on" command="ispy ALERTON" smscommand="ALERTON" /> <command id="7" name="cmd_All alerts off" command="ispy ALERTOFF" smscommand="ALERTOFF" /> <command id="8" name="cmd_Record all start" command="ispy RECORD" smscommand="RECORD" /> <command id="9" name="cmd_Record all stop" command="ispy RECORDOFF" smscommand="RECORDOFF" />

Rasperry Pi 2 - boot from USB

Change boot device in cmdline.txt to /dev/sda2:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes fsck.mode=force rootwait

Still boots from SD Card first, but USB is supposedly faster.  Nice article here on the full procedure:

https://www.stewright.me/2013/05/install-and-run-raspbian-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

To write image to usb drive, use this command from within linux VM:

> $ sudo dd if=raspbx-22-09-2016.img of=/dev/sdb

7626752+0 records in
7626752+0 records out
3904897024 bytes (3.9 GB) copied, 1875.02 s, 2.1 MB/s

Django - JSON API for incoming POST

Need a way to bring in a POST with JSON data and django appears to be workable.  sqlite and webserver built-in for quick prototype.  I'm now able to receive an SMS and log the JSON data.

Installing Django:

   14  wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
   16  python get-pip.py
   28  pip install Django
   90  pip install sh

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

False Alarms

Getting false alarms from the garage reed switch.  Fairly reliable, but every now and then it gets tripped.  Need to narrow down which one is tripping - 9:51 is false alarm:

12/05/2016 05:43:35 AM alarm tripped 0xAF
12/12/2016 09:51:35 AM alarm tripped 0x9F
12/12/2016 08:36:31 PM alarm tripped 0x9F
12/13/2016 09:29:15 AM alarm tripped 0xCF