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Adding (mandatory) SMTP authentication to my surveil app
So, I was thinking a bit lately, about adding a small feature to my surveillance app, so that it would send a mail whenever it was started.Went about to add that this evening, when I discovered that there were large gaps in time between mailed videos in my Surveillance folder/label.
After some searching and debugging, I found that the SMTP server (GMail's in this case), was rejecting emails from my IP. I guess that's just an automated response, when over time, I sent emails to myself, morphex@gmail.com, from myself and at some point that gets flagged as spam, because I wasn't logged in before sending emails.
Anyway, I guess it was naive to try to run something without logging into an SMTP with spam being what it is, so I added (mandatory) support for logging into the outgoing SMTP server today.
In addition to this, I guess it is nice to have the ability to reboot the host regularly, as a host system might for some reason become bogged down. So I added a config option to specify the amount of time between each reboot, in config.py:
https://github.com/morphex/surveil/blob/d1ff83091d9f33533ce9...
I think the config file is quite neat, because Python is neat; one can add config options, and even some logic to deal with config options in one file, and it seems natural.
At the end of the config file as it was on that commit, there is a statement that adds 5-60 minutes of delay to the reboot interval specified above - so that it is a bit harder to predict when a surveillance camera is rebooted.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [A surveillance app (Python tree here I come!) (Atom feed)] [15 Oct 00:57 Europe/Oslo]