From ed16dd57927d66b81710478933d1dbeae77a75ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Culverhouse <jeff@graystorm.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 03:47:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] reset camera connection if we cannot get device events

---
 VERSION        | 2 +-
 amcrest_api.py | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 938dde1..53675af 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.99.15
+0.99.16
diff --git a/amcrest_api.py b/amcrest_api.py
index b7a50c8..0925359 100644
--- a/amcrest_api.py
+++ b/amcrest_api.py
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ class AmcrestAPI(object):
         # return just the config of each device, not the camera object
         return {d: self.devices[d]['config'] for d in self.devices.keys()}
 
+    def reset_connection(self, device_id):
+        device = self.devices[device_id]
+        device['camera'] = get_camera(device['config']['host'])
+
     def get_camera(self, host):
         return AmcrestCamera(
             host,
@@ -120,6 +124,7 @@ class AmcrestAPI(object):
                 await self.process_device_event(device_id, code, payload)
         except Exception as err:
             self.logger.error(f'Failed to get events from device ({device_id}): {err}')
+            self.reset_connection(device_id)
 
     async def process_device_event(self, device_id, code, payload):
         try: