iOS 13 Ready?

[roycepope]

Anybody know if this plugin is good to go for iOS 13? I really like this plugin and it would be a real shame for it to be broken we updating to iOS 13. Has anybody tried the iOS 13 beta with this?

[jnanes]

Plugin works but push notifications with screenshots are broken completely. On Sep 5, 2019, 8:00 PM -0400, Royce Pope notifications@github.com, wrote:

Anybody know if this plugin is good to go for iOS 13? I really like this plugin and it would be a real shame for it to be broken we updating to iOS 13. Has anybody tried the iOS 13 beta with this? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[JJJ]

Audio/video works great in iOS 13. I don’t use notifications, so I’m not sure about them either way.

Here’s a screen shot from the Home app on my phone running the latest beta:

[roycepope]

Thanks guys, it sounds like existing functionality is going to be intact. Will open future issues if they arise when iOS 13 releases.

[ryanschmidt]

I can confirm that push notifications are busted in iOS 13.

[jmbwell]

I get thumbnails sometimes, I don’t get them sometimes. I need to investigate. Open to input.

[jnanes]

Worst. Any idea if the screenshot notifications are able to be fixed? On Sep 22, 2019, 8:12 PM -0400, John Burwell notifications@github.com, wrote:

Reopened #41. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[roycepope]

Should we wait for iOS 13.1 to be released by the end of the month? I hear this is supposed to fix a lot of things for HomeKit.

[ryanschmidt]

I do think 13.1 is supposed to have some fixes. I guess we won't know if that will affect this or not. I assume if they changed how the notification images work others will need to update their apps as well.

[ryanschmidt]

Just noticed that I am getting image previews to MacOS HomeKit but the same notification doesn't send a preview to iOS or WatchOS. For that reason, I don't think this is something that needs changed with the homebridge plugin.

[ryanschmidt]

It appears to be this same issue https://github.com/KhaosT/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg/issues/332

[jmbwell]

Combining the camera with the motion sensor into a composite device apparently helps, and might actually be an improvement for this plugin.

This would not fix rich notifications with other sensors in the room, but that sounds like a constraint introduced to HomeKit by Apple.

[vddgil]

Audio/video works great in iOS 13. I don’t use notifications, so I’m not sure about them either way.

Here’s a screen shot from the Home app on my phone running the latest beta:

Hey @JJJ Hom did you managed to have sound with this plugin, for me it's just disabled ...

Thanks a lot !

Gil

[roycepope]

@vddgil Confirmed no sound at all on iOS 13.1.2

[JJJ]

Here’s a modified version of my config. This likely requires FFMpeg itself to be compiled as per the instructions in the Wiki here in this repository. I went through various different sets of flags, and I’m not 100% confident what they are, but I’ll post them here if I can pull them out of FFMpeg.

        {
            "platform": "Camera-ffmpeg",
            "cameras": [
                {
                    "name": "Whatever",
                    "videoConfig": {
                        "source": "-rtsp_transport tcp -re -i rtsp://your-cloud-key-url",
                        "stillImageSource": "-i http://your-camera-ip/snap.jpeg",
                        "additionalCommandline": "-preset slow -profile:v high -level 4.2 -x264-params intra-refresh=1:bframes=0",
                        "vcodec": "h264_omx",
                        "packetSize": 188,
                        "audio": true,
                        "maxStreams": 2,
                        "maxWidth": 1920,
                        "maxHeight": 1080,
                        "maxFPS": 15,
                        "maxBitrate": 300,
                        "mapaudio": "0:0",
                        "mapvideo": "0:1"
                    }
                },
            }

I’m currently running the 13.2 beta, also with sound. It’s been pretty inconsistent between iOS and iPadOS versions. Sometimes streams would completely fail on my iPhone only and work fine in the Home app on my Mac, etc…

[vddgil]

Hello @JJJ and thanks for your answer. What do you mean by "in the Wiki here in this repository.". I can't find any instructions on how to compile ffmpeg in the wiki ...

Thanks in advance !

Gil

[ryanschmidt]

Still no luck with this. I'm getting snapshots for other plugins like homebridge-ring so I'm wondering if there is something required to get snapshots to work again here for iOS 13. Any pointers would be appreciated!

[JJJ]

@vddgil Sorry; from the Wiki on the original fork this repo was born from:

https://github.com/KhaosT/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg/wiki/Raspberry-PI

I happen to be setting up a new HomeBridge instance from scratch, so I'll be testing this momentarily.

ffmpeg -sample_fmts will output a bunch of helpful stuff, including configuration: which is where you can see what flags its been compiled with.

[JJJ]

@vddgil Sooo.... I followed the instructions in the Wiki link above, and nothing works - not even basic video. It appears I have some more research to do.

[ryanschmidt]

Still stuck on this :(

Is this related? https://github.com/KhaosT/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg/wiki/iOS-13-and-Photo-Notifications?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[jnanes]

any news on this?

[ryanschmidt]

No news. Just sadness and image-less notifications.

[jnanes]

About to give up hope. Still sitting back on ios12

[ukypayne]

I'm on iOS 13 and have the regular camera options working fine.

I didn't know the snapshot & push notification was an option. Is there active development in this UFV branch to possibly get this to work? I tried the flags that @JJJ listed above but had nothing actually appear.

[jnanes]

Billy,

You have the push notification with screenshots working? Can you clarify how as it doesn’t work for others afaik? On Nov 24, 2019, 7:25 PM -0500, Billy notifications@github.com, wrote:

I'm on iOS 13 and have the regular camera options working fine. I didn't know the snapshot & push notification was an option. Is there active development in this UFV branch to possibly get this to work? I tried the flags that @JJJ listed above but had nothing actually appear. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[ukypayne]

@jnanes No, I do not have screenshots working. I said I had the old functions of just seeing the camera.

[jnanes]

Sorry I was confused, as the old function was to receive notifications... On Nov 26, 2019, 4:04 PM -0500, Billy notifications@github.com, wrote:

@jnanes No, I do not have screenshots working. I said I had the old functions of just seeing the camera. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[cburn]

Combining the camera with the motion sensor into a composite device apparently helps, and might actually be an improvement for this plugin.

This would not fix rich notifications with other sensors in the room, but that sounds like a constraint introduced to HomeKit by Apple.

Yep, that seems to have fixed it. My PR #43 fixes the rich notifications by adding the motion sensor as a service on the camera.

[jnanes]

@cburn sorry for being naive, is there a way I can apply this patch manually or do I need to wait for it to be merged?

[cburn]

@jnanes you can clone from my fork to get it for now - https://github.com/cburn/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg-ufv

[jnanes]

::googles Clone::

Ok thank you sir! On Dec 7, 2019, 11:54 AM -0500, cburn notifications@github.com, wrote:

@jnanes you can clone from my fork to get it for now - https://github.com/cburn/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg-ufv — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[jnanes]

@cburn I was able to clone your fork but am not getting the rich notifications on iOS 13. Is there any change needed to my config file or anything else?

[cburn]

@jnanes you'll have to manually install this as well. Might be easier to wait for it to be updated on NPM.

npm -g uninstall homebridge-camera-ffmpeg-ufv
cd <to where you cloned my fork to>
npm i
npm install -g

[jmbwell]

Yeah sit tight cowpokes, got a house full of people and Christmas trees going up. Will try again this evening

[jnanes]

No worries, after I broke my instance by trying to manually install I reverted my snapshot and I'm now waiting patiently.

Thanks for all the hard work!!

[jmbwell]

Okay, I've updated npm with the latest patch. Thanks for all the effort y'all