The Support menu item links to the Accounts Tool to diagnose box configuration and video stream problems.

Since problems are often related to sign-in credentials, you can also verify sign-in information.

Support

Click Support in the upper right user menu while viewing the account you're diagnosing. 

That link includes the account you're viewing. Copy and paste that link anytime you contact support@camio.com for the fastest way to reference the account. For example, If you're viewing an account example@acme.com, the Support link includes the user= parameter like this:
https://camio.com/tools/accounts/?user=example%40acme.com

Accounts Tool

The easiest way to diagnose problems is to use this page:
https://camio.com/tools/accounts

This tool and the Camio API are available to your authorized support staff members and enables you to lookup the configuration and state of your customer's Boxes and video streams. The authorization to use the API for customer support enables you to specify the user URL parameter to specify your customer's email address.

If you're not a Guest on the end user's account, then in order to use these APIs on accounts other than your own, you must first:

1. verify your email address associated with your own Camio account on your own domain if not already verified.
2. contact Camio to authorize your email address and domain.
3. confirm that the customer has subscribed via your domain.

The complete Camio API is documented at api.camio.com, but the common support APIs are highlighted below. You can also provide customers with this information to diagnose their own configuration problems.

 

Box configuration and video stream state

The Accounts page includes Box configuration information obtained from the API 
/api/devices?user=jane@example.com&pretty_print=1

The response lists all Boxes and video streams registered to user jane@example.com. The most commonly useful diagnostic information includes the rtsp_url_pattern and rtsp_url_params:

"rtsp_url_pattern": "rtsp://***redacted***/axis-media/media.amp?camera\u003d{{stream}}",
"rtsp_url_params": {
  "port": "554",
  "username": "admin",
  "stream": "1",
  "password": "***redacted***"
}

And the state of the associated video stream, which includes state.camera_info with code and message that's key to understand the error in connecting to a particular stream.

"state": {
  "camera_info": {
    "ACCC8E0C34E9.0": {
      "live_view_active": false,
      "online": true,
      "stream_state": {
        "code": "200",
        "message": "OK",
        "perc_obtained_frames": 99.609375,
        "width": 1280,
        "height": 720,
        "movie_size_bytes": 4758714,
        "frame_rate": 25.153936,
        "codec_name": "h264",
        "bit_rate_kbps": 3737.601,
        "h264_profile": "Baseline"
      },
      "network_configuration_actual": {
      "ip_address": "10.10.10.76"
    }
  }
}

Camera assignments to subscription plans

The Subscriptions section of the Accounts page includes the output from the API:
/api/cameras/plans/?user=jane@example.com&pretty_print=1

This response shows the cameras that the user has assigned to each plan as in this example showing the 4 cameras that have been assigned to the "pro" plan:

{
  "id": "pro",
  "name": "Pro",
  "expiration_date": "2018-02-08T00:19:40.000-0000",
  "num_cameras": 6,
  "num_cameras_assigned": 4,
  "stripe_customer_id": "cus_BtEsXLfCSC8zeY",
  "camera_ids": [
    "cc:4914839830796889140629:1F1F1F1F1F1F:1F1F1F1F1F1F.0",
    "cc:4914839830796889140629:FF00FF00FF00:FF00FF00FF00.0",
    "cc:4914839830796889140629:112233445566:112233445566.0",
    "cc:4914839830796889140629:3CEF8CF8C71B:3CEF8CF8C71B.0"
  ]
}

User sign-in information

Ask users to open the /me page (https://camio.com/me) to confirm the email address they're using to sign-in.