Sporadically issues with Arm/Disarm about arlo HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi Jeffrey,

looks much better now - thank you for your great support!
Arlo.py is a really important component for my home-automation.

regards,
Daniel

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There was a race condition between the time I started the thread that manages the EventStream and me storing it in the event_streams dictionary.

Please try my latest commit (3bc7485) and let me know if you're still seeing the issue.

Thanks!

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Looks like there's still an issue here.

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@huberda I made a couple more changes and haven't seen anymore hanging. Please do comment here and let me know if you are still having any issues after my latest commit (5cd45db). Thanks!

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Hi Daniel,

I'm glad to hear it's working better. I basically only use my library for downloading and deleting videos, so I didn't really test that code too deeply. :)

Just out of curiosity, what all are you doing with your home automation?

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No problem!

I started with home automation initial for home security, so all our windows/doors have some sensors, if one is opened. For motion detection inside and outside i added 5 internal and one external motion detection sensors. Now the setup has grown up. We added intelligent "smoke detectors" in all important rooms, several "power sockets", water detection sensors, temperature/humidity sensors and light controls. Then i started adding some third-party applications like Arlo.

What i am doing:

• Home Security (window/door/motion detection)
  • Added Arlo as Camera System
• Temperature/Humidity Control
• Controlling vacuum cleaner (Roomba via XML-API)
• Controlling lawn-mower (Gardena via power socket)
• Garden Watering
• Smoke / Water detection
• Some lights are controlled
• Historical data graphs (weteaher, temp/hum of all rooms,..)
• Push notifications to all phones (for smoke, water, alarm, ....everything)
  (Everything on premise without cloud, exception only for Arlo and Push - everything else via VPN)

So what I needed Arlo.py for:
We got two key chains for enabling/disabling the home security, which is working very well. Now I wanted to enable all 4 arlo cameras automatically by activation of the home security.

When I am leaving, the home-automation enables all window/door/motion contacts, shutdowns
some power sockets, sometime enables the vacuum cleaner, and then sends an http-request to my
apache webserver to turn-on the arlo cameras via your Arlo.py. The same happens the other way around when I am coming home -> turn off Arlo, turn on power sockets.
This is great, because I have only to push one button, and not enabling arlo separately or via
time schedule / geofence.

My problem was the race condition, because the http-requests where hanging in my apache until the request timeout was reached.This was an issue, because after pressing the button several times I had 5 requests which were hung in the webserver and the cameras keep running.
For sure I am also using the download/delete function, at night all pictures/videos are move from the netgear-cloud to my qnap.

So I think this is a small overview...for sure there are several other programs running for home automation, but that's to much to describe ...;-)

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Wow! That sounds really awesome. I've been interested in home automation for a while, but haven't really had the time to build out a platform.

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