ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway"

Ryan Breen

That fixed it, thanks!

Monocle

@bouboun59 said in ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway":

Who knows an alternative to monocle ?

I’ve hear good things about Scrypted (https://www.scrypted.app/) but I have not personally tried it out.
I think they are using FFMPEG under the hood to to re-stream camera feed in a more compatible format. That is something I had considered and wanted to do for Monocle but re-streaming a bunch of camera feeds can be quite server intensive.

-Robert

Monocle

@thurmane0 said in ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway":

Hello everyone! (This is my first post here, so please be gentle lol)

The same issue is happening on my server, and I’m happy I came across this post when doing a google search. I recently upgraded my home server that I had for years to a pretty new snazzy model. I tried running the application and have the same missing token error.

I have kinda a related side question - since I moved the monocle folder to a new hardware setup, is there anything further I have to do to normally get it working? (I’ve read somewhere about generating a new token, but I’m honestly a bit inexperienced with this software - I got it working a couple of years ago and it’s been pretty steady.

There was a server side issue , but it should be resolved now. When moving Monocle Gateway to a new host/server, yes its a good idea to generate a brand new token for it. It’s not absolutely necessary but due to DNS caching it could take serveral hours to get the chain of DNS records fully updated. Generating a new token effectively also creates new DNS record for your Monocle Gateway instance and thus side-steps the caching issues.

Thanks, Robert

Monocle

@Ryan-Breen said in ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway":

That fixed it, thanks!

Thanks for the confirmation!
-Robert

Monocle

@bouboun59 said in ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway":

@edgbarr It’s clear @Monocle is dead !

Not dead ;-).

But it’s still a side-project and freely provided and hosted :-). So support is not always immediate and sadly in this case a bit more delayed than usual. I’m usually able to address any server-side related outage in a more timely manner. But I dropped the ball this time around.

Thanks, Robert

Monocle

@Graham2607 said in ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway":

@bouboun59 I hope Robert is OK.

All is well, I was just away for a week and was not monitoring the system or this forum.

Thanks, Robert

edgbarr

Now it worked.

Notes, I did this:

1 - To install the skill, it is not located in Alexa, you need to enter the link and add it, it will say that it was not installed but it was.

https://www.amazon.com/Monocle-RTSP-RTP-IP-Cameras/dp/B079P7DZ4D

2 - Generate a new token and run monocle cam.

Thanks

bouboun59

@Monocle said in ALEXA ECHO SHOW 5 - TOKEN ERROR - Assistance Needed: Troubleshooting "monocle-gateway":

But it’s still a side-project and freely provided and hosted :-). So support is not always immediate and sadly in this case a bit more delayed than usual. I’m usually able to address any server-side related outage in a more timely manner. But I dropped the ball this time around.
Thanks, Robert

Thanks a lots @Robert it was a joke ;)
Your work it’s very good, and i know, that isn’t easy to manager a free project.
Monocle it’s very cool project, and I will make a donation

great

good job
a long life for you and monocle ;)