As of June 2022, gmail blocking emails from NVR's, Cams, devices, etc.. SOLVED

[aaiyar]

Email Notifications Driver using Node/sendmail on a PI

I'm bringing this thread back to life - hopefully to help anyone else whose notifications using this driver stopped working, like mine did. When I setup sendmail, I created a dummy Gmail account and used the account option to permit "Less Secure App" access to sendmail from my SBC using the dummy account. As of May 30th, 2022, Google has turned off less secure app access. Instead, they require the use of app specific passwords, which is more secure anyway. Here are the steps needed: Login to …