Understanding the email module

[Thomsus]

Hi everyone.

I'm new to Xeoma. Have set it up, configured it, works like a charm.

The first part, the mail server settings, mail body text etc. makes perfect sense.

The remaining part however, don't make sense to me; time interval, picture counter etc. Anyone who dares to explain?

[Admin_P]

Hello! Let's go slider-by-slider:

Prerecord - if you want the picture or video to capture something before a detector is triggered, set it to a few seconds.

Count as one several consequent events that happened during - this is best described with an example:
-the motion detector detects something for 5 seconds, then after 10 seconds - something else for 5 seconds
-if the e-mail is set for the interval of 5 seconds - you will get 2 messages (2 different events detected)

If you know that detectors can trigger often in your situation, and you don't want Xeoma to flood your e-mail account with messages every few seconds - this is the slider that allows Xeoma to compress all the triggered events into a single message.

The delay interval for adding pictures/videos - if you have any attachments to the e-mail, this will force Xeoma make those not immediately upon a detector triggering, but with a delay.

Time between message - this decides how often Xeoma can send you messages; in the above mentioned scenario of a flooded mailbox this would also help, but all the potential messages in between will be ignored and lost. (N.B. this timer takes priority over the rest; if e.g. the delay between images is greater than this timer - you will still get messages, but no attachments)

[Thomsus]

Thanks, nice with the explanation.

What about the image settings just below those settings you list (when attaching one or more pictures to an e-mail)?

[Admin_P]

These depend on the attachment's type:

Images
How many pictures to attach - if you need several photos from the camera, specify the number per e-mail.
Time between images - if there is more than 1 photo, set the interval for the camera to take snapshots at.
Send only the latest images captured during this time - relates to the previous option; use this to see only the very end of an event that triggered the module.
Max message size - most public e-mail hosts have a limit for the overall size of a single message (all attachments included); you can set this to the same value as that limit, so that Xeoma keeps it in mind.

Videos
Framerate - how many frames per second you want the video to have (cannot be greater than the stream's original parameters from the Universal camera).
Duration of video - how long you want the video to be.
Max message size - see previous entry by the same name.