Preview image via cloud upload and cleanup after #51
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I have the same issue and I reported it in great detail to netgear. They said they were working on it in April, maybe it will be fixed. Ps I have the canva 1 in case that matters. clever workaround! |
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Thanks @mcscope . Let me know if you get any further updates from Netgear. I have the same - canvas 1. |
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I have a Canvas II so that may explain why I haven't encountered this issue yet! |
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I spent way too much time troubleshooting this issue where previewing an image works only once and every subsequent attempt to preview an image will display the first image. For some reason, the Meural device caches the image. I verified this by making API calls directly to the local webserver. I also found someone mentioned this issue here.
This had been bugging me for a while since I wanted to display the image from the front door when someone rings the doorbell. So for a while, I had automation where I used
preview_imageto display the image from the front door, then restart the Meural, so subsequent attempts to preview the image would work. Obviously, this wasn't ideal, so I looked into the APIs and figured out a way to upload the image first to the cloud and then use the id to preview it, waiting for 2 minutes before deleting it from the cloud.Bonus: You can include a bunch of metadata to the uploaded image, so the image preview looks great.
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P.S. I know this is kind of a hack to work around the preview service, so I am totally ok with closing this MR without merging. I am just going to leave this here, so if anyone struggling with this issue knows what to do :)