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ecks

Hi Michael, the translation is simple, just convert the 6870141820246961153 number to hexa, use eight MSB bytes, convert to decimal, multiply by 1000 and convert th result from system time to date time. Your downloaded file was recorder on Tue Sep 08 2020 15:39:02Regards, Michael

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30-01-2021 18:30:47

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winger

WOW, but still sounds GREEK to me. Why can't Ring just make it easy on its users and rename all the files for us? Hate it when a company is NOT customer-centric/friendly

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11-05-2021 21:20:41

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Murray

Yep it is a basic hiccup... and well meaning as some of the replies have been, there are not much use to a non-technical user -Scripts, Shells, Python, $$$ :-)

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08-06-2021 10:50:05

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StephenSo

For anyone still looking for this, I created a PowerShell Script to rename the files. function Convert-RingNameToDate { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0, HelpMessage='Please add a help message here')] [System.Int64] $number ) $bits = [Convert]::ToString($number,2) $MSB = [string]$bits[0..30] -replace(' ','') $Dec = [convert]::ToInt64($MSB,2) $Epoch = Get-Date -Date "01/01/1970" $DateTime = $Epoch.AddSeconds($Dec) return (Get-date ($DateTime) -Format YYYY-mm-dd-HH-mm-ss) } $Folder = "D:\Temp\Ring" $Items = Get-ChildItem $Folder -Filter *.mp4 -Recurse Foreach ($item in $Items){ $newname = "$(Convert-RingNameToDate($item.BaseName)).mp4" if (-not (Test-Path "$($item.DirectoryName)\$($newname)") ){ $item | Rename-Item -NewName $newname } }To use:Where I download the videos in a ZIP file, and they are named:6946548309236321348.mp4Change $Folder to the location of your Ring Video files.You can modify the format of the filename from "yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss" to anything you like. [PowerShell date formatting](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/get-date?view=powershell-7.1#example-3--get-the-date-and-time-with-a--net-format-specifier)One more thing: I found the conversion to date/time was in UTC. If you wish to add or remove hours edit the line:$DateTime = $Epoch.AddSeconds($Dec)to $DateTime = $Epoch.AddSeconds($Dec).AddHours(-5) # CST

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11-04-2021 11:46:21

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vorigeweek

Thanks for writing the Powershell script! Only the format method was not correct. return (Get-date ($DateTime) -Format "yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm K")

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30-04-2021 08:59:05

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winger

Hi there. I just saw that the Ring Video file names are now in the form: Ring_542010902_2123_7079275696466310081.mp4 Can you updated your PowerShell script to cater for this new format? Much thanks! I could not get the script above to run, but will post the results on a separate post (to convert

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29-03-2022 02:26:00

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user9181

Workaround: Use advancedrenamer.com and rename the file with replace method with this setting: Text to be replaced: `(.*)_(.*)_(.*)_(.*)` Replace with:` \3_\4_stamp` Use regular expressions :white_check_mark: Then apply the skript from above.

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15-04-2022 17:17:29

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winger

Hi. I just following up on this thread. Does this advancedrenamer.com app still work? When you say "Then apply the skript from above", what specific script are you referring to and how do you "apply" it? TY!

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29-08-2023 18:06:39

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vorigeweek

And for who is interrested, I've converted the Powershell script to a Python3 version: import datetime def ConvertDingIdToDateTime(dingId): bits = format(dingId, '0>42b') MSB = bits[0:31] dingDateTime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(MSB,2)) return dingDateTime

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30-04-2021 09:00:21

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Dan5ive

I don't suppose you have the full script for this? I cannot get it to work for me

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03-08-2021 14:59:43

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alangham

Thanks to @vorigeweek for the Python bit! Here's *a* full script @Dan5ive. It's insanely ugly but I was in a hurry to get something to work. ``` from os import listdir from os.path import isfile, join import datetime import os def ConvertDingIdToDateTime(dingId): bits = format(dingId, '0>42b

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27-11-2021 03:26:29

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winger
How do I request Ring do the conversion for us non-technical folk (I would think a MAJORITY of users are in this camp) so the videos are named something like:20210715-201523.mp4 where the video was taken on July 15, 2021 at 8:15:23PM ?AFAIK, Samsung smartphones and some cameras already name their files this way (or very similar).
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17-07-2021 20:50:05
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Dan5ive
I've very recently discovered the filename issue. The day I need 80 videos that I can easily navigate the time each was taken, I find its just a string of numbers... I tried using the desktop app (I have an iMac) as I read this way of downloading files changes the filename to include a timestamp. But... you can only download one video at a time and if you have two videos taken within a minute it will only save one as the file name is the same. This is really annoying
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03-08-2021 14:49:08
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