Hello! I installed Node Red on a Mac. How can I install the module? Unfortunately that doesn't work for me somehow. [image] GitHub - bartbutenaers/node-red-contrib-onvif-nodes: Node Red nodes for... Node Red nodes for communicating with OnVif compliant IP devices - GitHub - bartbuten…

You are welcome. The TypeError seemed to be because the Onvif library - for some reason not clear to me yet - does not fetch the capabilities (e.g. events, ptz, ...) from your camera. So it doesn't know whether it supports events. In my (local) version I have now fixed this, to show a new status …

[image] BartButenaers: I need to figure out why the hell I don't get your cam's capabilities Seems that recently (see this pull request ), they have replaced capabilities by services...

[image] BartButenaers: they have replaced capabilities by services And yes indeed: [image] The capabilities are undefined, which resulted in the TypeError. Now all your capabilities are loaded together with the other service data. In the service list you can see which services your camer…

[image] BartButenaers: The capabilities are undefined, which resulted in the TypeError. Now all your capabilities are loaded together with the other service data. In the service list you can see which services your camera supports. So I need to use this list instead... EDIT: Seems my older …

@madmax , I have pushed a large number of changes to my Github repository: Support for both services and (older) capabilities. This should solve the TypeError, and allow the node to connect to your device (as described in the previous posts above). Extra node status "no services" when no serv…

Hello! Thank you for the info. How do I do an update best. Delete old version and reinstall it?

Hello! Already close it now. I will test it out extensively on the weekend

A simple install should work fine

@madmax , Got again another issue from an event stream not functioning anymore in the latest version. When I look at his code, the XAdr naming is entirely different as for your camera :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: And in his case each service has now an array of capabilities (like it should be): …

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There was still one open issue in my code that prevented the original input message fields to be kept during discovery. That is now also fixed on Github.

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