How to enable logging for non-Python programmers?

[jcwren]

I'm using the script below, and while it connects to the Camect and get the name, I'm not seeing any events when the cameras are triggered. The Camect is sending email and telegram notices, so it's definitely seeing the camera events, they just don't seem to be getting through the Python interface. I'd like to set the logging level to DEBUG, but I have no idea how this works in Python.

import camect
import time
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt

camect_host="camect.local:443"
camect_passwd="xxx"
camect_user="admin"

mqtt_host="localhost"
mqtt_port=1883
mqtt_user=None
mqtt_passwd=None
mqtt_topic="camect"

def post_event_to_mqtt(client, evt):
    if evt["type"] == "alert":
        client.publish(mqtt_topic+"/motion", evt["cam_name"])
    else:
        print(evt)

# The callback for when the client receives a CONNACK response from the server.
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
    print("Connected to MQTT server with result code "+str(rc))

    # Subscribing in on_connect() means that if we lose the connection and
    # reconnect then subscriptions will be renewed.
    client.subscribe("$SYS/#")


def on_log(mqttc, obj, level, string):
    print(string)

# Connect to mqtt
client = mqtt.Client()
client.on_connect = on_connect
#client.on_log = on_log

client.connect(mqtt_host, mqtt_port, 60)

home = camect.Home(camect_host, camect_user, camect_passwd)
home.add_event_listener(lambda evt: post_event_to_mqtt(client,evt))
print("Camect name is '%s'" % home.get_name())
client.loop_forever()

[tushar-nitave]

You can try to add Python's logger after your imports like this.

logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG, datefmt='%y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S')
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

Also set camect's log level using set_log_level() method as shown below. 10 is for DEBUG.

camect.set_log_level(10)

[jcwren]

Using set_log_level() was my first instinct, but that results in this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./camect_mqtt.py", line 46, in <module>
    home.set_log_level (10);
AttributeError: 'Home' object has no attribute 'set_log_level'

[tushar-nitave]

Yes, because home is an instance of camect.Home which does not have set_log_level method. As mentioned above you need to use camect.set_log_level(10) instead of camect.Home.set_log_level(10).

[jcwren]

You're correct, of course. That appears to enable the logging based on using get_log_level() after setting it. However, I expected to see the _LOGGER.info("Connecting to Camect Home at '%s' ...", self._ws_uri) message from line 211, but it doesn't appear to make it to the console.

[tushar-nitave]

Did you try with this?

logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG, datefmt='%y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S')
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

[jcwren]

OK, that did the trick. Thanks!