Bmetry overview page

The images captured during bmetry sequnces are treated very differently from other images in our system. This is because other images usually serve the purpose of archival, which is not the case for the images in a bmetry sequence. Once the “big picture” is rendered, nobody is interested in keeping around the hundreds of megabytes of data that were needed to create it for months on end.

Due to this, images captured during bmetry sequences are not being archived at all. In fact, they are not even being uploaded unless requested (though you can still make that request automatic by ticking the corresponding checkbox in the bmetry settings, see Bmetry Configuration | Configuration ). Once uploaded, we are keeping a backup of them for 30 days, but this backup is not linked up with the archive and the lifetime cannot be extended. As a result, they are completely invisible in your cameras browse page.

Which is why we made a new page that is much more helpful for the purposes of a bmetry camera. When you click “browse” on a bmetry master in the dashboard, this is the page you will see by default:

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You can switch over to the traditional archive view by clicking on “Images” in the upper right when you need that (like for example changing configuration settings).

Available Sequences

Here you can see an overview over all sequences captured today. There is no option to go further back in time, as the corresponding images will be deleted from the camera over night, and the sequence will no longer be relevant. It displays the time the sequence was started, and whether the sequence was considered successful or not. Please note however that this evaluation is still somewhat crude at the moment - you may have other criteria for the validity of a sequence than just a certain percentage of the expected images being present.

If you click on the eye icon next to a sequence, you will see more details about it in the view to the right.

Sequence details

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This shows you the ID of the sequence, its state, time of start and also the time it concluded. But more interesting are of course the images taken by each remote during the sequence. For each image you can see the exact timestamp in the cameras timezone, as well as how many times each image has been uploaded. If that count is zero, it means that the image currently only exists on the camera itself and has not been uploaded yet.

Trigger image upload

You may trigger an upload of the images in this sequence through the upload button in the upper right. This will bring up a dialog with two options:

The two options you can specify here is the width (in pixel) you want the images to be scaled to before upload (images will preserve aspect ratio), and the maximum upload count. The maximum upload count will exclude all images from the upload that were already uploaded more than that number. For example, if you set it to 1, images with an upload count of 2 or higher will be excluded from the upload. This can be useful if something went wrong during an upload and you only want to upload the images that haven’t uploaded yet. Leave both options empty if you just want to upload all images in their original resolution.

Do note that the upload button is a pure convenience function for those times when it’s easier to trigger an upload manually, that is not intended for regular operation. We heavily recommend to have automation in place that handles your uploads through the API: Bmetry API documentation

Geo-information

You may check the “show Geo-data” checkbox to display the geo-information of the images in a sequence. Not all images may have that, but those that do will display it when that box is checked: