Creating a Service

[AceOfSpade]

Hello community,

I want to use my ip camera (instar IN-4011) in openhab2.
The camera features a alarm-server option, the camera executes an http get on the alarm-server if an alarm occurs.
I hacked a quick and dirty python script together that listens for the get and uses the openhab rest api to set an item.
It worked well, now I want to do it the right way and create an addon that does this job.
In my opinion this should not be a binding rather than an io-service for openhab.

My problem is that I could not find any documentation about developing a service, has someone any resources for me or even a better idea to solve my problem.

Thanks for your help

Update: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1905325 This is my script I want to convert into a openhab addon.

[sihui]

@AceOfSpade

or even a better idea to solve my problem

Did you check out this binding?

IpCamera: New IP Camera Binding

This binding is now merged into openHAB 2.5.9 and newer. See below for more details on what each brand of camera has working as often choosing the right camera will save you from needing to purchase an extra video server (both the cost to purchase the server, plus the ongoing electricity costs) to process the video feeds. Features for Generic cameras with only RTSP (no snapshot url): Snapshots (jpg) can be created from RTSP with low CPU overhead but requires non stop network traffic to keep …

[AceOfSpade]

@sihui

Did you check out this binding?

Now I did so, it is handy but does not serve my purpose.