Is anyone getting blurred images from their tapo camera. Sometimes they are crystal clear other times I get what you see below. This is a problem since I am trying to do object identification on the image. I’ve seen this with other cameras in the past. Anyone have any ideas whats going on?
It looks like a typical dirty read.
A dirty read is when you read before the write process have completely finished.
The write process with typically reserve a space on the media for the entire file, then start to fill that area out with the picture information.
If the read process is started too early, then, because it is a lot faster than the write process, it will overtake the write process and then a picture like that occur.
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Makes sense but which reading and which writing process? HA is trying to read an image quicker than the camera / HA can write it is that the case? I ask because I am triggering a camera.snapshot service and that sends the snapshot so I am trying to determine if and where I can put in a delay.
What further compounds it is it is that a reboot of the camera fixes the problem which doesn’t line up with what you’re referencing.
The snapshot command is the write process.
It needs to finish before you can read it later in the action chain.
Roger that. Thank you I will give it a shot.