View Event list

[geiche735]

How would I view the current camera event list and values through VAPIX? I want to check if a specific event has a data instance with the value 'true'.

To edit this question, I am sending an HTTP SOAP request to obtain the list of events using the following Python code with IP, username, and password replaced. I get a Response 400, anyone what am I doing wrong?

from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
import requests
url = "http://IP/vapix/services"

headers = {"Content-Type" : "application/soap+xml; action=//www.axis.com/vapix/ws/event1/GetEventInstances; Charset=UTF-8"}

body = """<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="//www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="//www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:xsi="//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><SOAP-ENV:Body><m:GetEventInstances xmlns:m="//www.axis.com/vapix/ws/event1"/></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"""

response = requests.post(url, auth=HTTPDigestAuth('username', 'password'), data = body, headers = headers)

print(response)

[mattias-kindborg-at-work]

Hi @geiche735!

Create the following files in a directory.

requirements.txt

requests

soap-get-event-instances.py

import requests
import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 4:
    print("Usage: soap-get-event-instances.py <ip> <username> <password>")
    sys.exit(1)

ip = sys.argv[1]
username = sys.argv[2]
password = sys.argv[3]

url = "http://{}/vapix/services".format(ip)
auth = requests.auth.HTTPDigestAuth(username, password)
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/soap+xml; action=//www.axis.com/vapix/ws/event1/GetEventInstances; Charset=UTF-8"}
body = """
  <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <m:GetEventInstances xmlns:m="http://www.axis.com/vapix/ws/event1"/>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
  </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"""

r = requests.post(url, auth=auth, headers=headers, data=body)

print(r.status_code)
print(r.text)

Then create and activate a new virtual environment:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

Proceed with installing the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then finally run the example with the following command:

python3 soap-get-event-instances.py <ip> <username> <password>

where <ip> is the IP address, <username> is the username and <password> is the password of the Axis device.