Angus_M
November 9, 2021, 6:18pm
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It seems TinyCam supports Amcrest IP cameras based on a quick Google search. Once in tinyCam you can use it for motion and object detection (person, face vehicle, pet) to trigger a virtual device in HE. You can also use the Web server of tinyCam to put live video streams into your HE dashboard using the image tile...
https://tinycammonitor.com/support.html
You'd have to check your cameras are supported. I linked above somewhere to the tinyCam support page which lists the cameras they support. It's a huge list so you will probably be ok but best to check carefully.
Yes,you need an always-on Android​ ​computer running TinyCam on your LAN. The HE app above takes a Webhook which you set in the TinyCam app for each camera, and decodes that to drive virtual motion sensors you set up in HE for motion and the various object detection types (person, face…
Put your web/ip cam into tinyCam (or suchlike).
Activate the webserver in tinyCam.
Get the url for that camera (for example, for tinyCam it is like this):
http(s)://your_tinyCam_webserver_ip:your_tinyCam_webserver_port/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?user=blah&pwd=blahdeblah&camera=1&resolution=320x240
Add this driver to your Hubitat system:
preferences {
input("src", "text", title: "iFrame Url", required: true)
}
metadata {
definition (name: "iFrame", namespace: "srp", author: "sr…