I am looking for some ideas to extend my camera functionality. Right now I have a webcore piston that acts on a series of virtual switches defined in HE. I have a series of Alexa routines that listen for phrases and control these switches. For example "Camera Wide" turns on a switch which executes an "http get" command in my QVR Pro NVR which sends a command to my Amcrest Pan/Tilt/Zone camera to zoom out. Similarly, I have a "Camera Hall", "Camera Kitchen", and several other commands.
The majority of my cameras are POE and I use QVR Pro to record them. The cameras are also all ONVIF and RTSP. I generally record and monitor off the RTSP stream.
What I would like to find out is if there are any extensions to HSM that might allow me to direct those cameras to take a snapshot and then perhaps email it with HSM Intrusion as the trigger. I have lots of HSM Triggered events in both Webcore and Rule Machine.
My question really evolves around whether there are any extensions or custom apps that provide functionality to cameras. I know this is a long shot, but I thought I would pulse the community for a direction in which to look.
@eibyer, Rey, The reason for the virtual switches is to provide a means to allow Alexa to initiate the actions. Yes, I do currently trigger off HSM switches in WebCoRE.
What is an example of an HSM even that you'd want the camera to take a snapshot and email the image? I don't have the solution but it's interesting, it's like counting sheep for me at night lol.
I have Hikvision cameras. They have the ability to send a snapshot on motion detection, but they always send 3 images, and I wanted to crop the snapshot to show only my area of interest so I could have full resolution while keeping the size down. I have a Zwave motion detector near the door, so I ended up putting a cgi-bin script on a Linux server I have here and triggering it with a URL event from Hubitat based on the motion sensor (also on the gate opening from a door/window sensor I have mounted in a waterproof box outside). The cgi script pulls a single image from the camera, crops it and then emails it to Pushover.
I have mostly Reolink cameras, an Amcrest and also a GW Security. In addition, I have a few Wyze cameras. I use them all via RTSP and I record and control them via QVR Pro on my QNAP NAS. After seeing your post, I defined a snapshot procedure on QVR Pro triggered by an HTTP Get. I then wrote a webcore routine triggered by HSM alarm states that makes the web call. I am attaching snapshots from nine cameras and it seems to work mostly. I say mostly because I generally get all but one camera. I also make web requests to change the Amcrest PTZ aiming of the camera as well. Overall, not bad. The QVR Pro routine also handles the emailing of the screenshots.
