Webcam monitoring

Monitoring for time-lapse cameras is enabled by default.

Tip

Enable/disable all monitoring mails or add other recipients in Dashboard -> Monitoring settings.

An email is sent to the account email address after 3 fails (number of errors). Number of errors can be set for each webcam in edit -> monitoring.
Set to 0 to disable all error notifications for the webcam.

Errors can be:

The duplicate image error indicates that the same image is sent again or fetched from the URL. Images are checked before processing if the file checksum is the same as the last image. The duplicate image is ignored and will not be added to the time-lapse.

Note

If URL fetched images are the same regularly, this is probably a problem with the interval setting beeing faster than the real image URL update (i.e. upload scripts on your server).

To avoid “flapping” notifications, sending Error-Emails is paused if multiple errors occur in a short time range. New error notifications (by email) are available again after 3-6 hours. All errors are shown in dashboard or slack.