Fill image item with camera picture (URL) in a rule

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  • Platform information:

    • Hardware: RPi 4
    • OS: Raspberian
    • Java Runtime Environment: 11
    • openHAB version: 3.1.0

  • Issue of the topic: I’m trying to fill an image item with a camera picture through the camera URL from a rule.
    This is what I try from the camera.rules file:
    Camera_last_motionpicture.postUpdate(“http://192.168.2.250/zm/cgi-bin/zms?mode=single&monitor=1”)

  • Please post configurations (if applicable): Camera_last_motionpicture item set through GUI as image type.

    • Items configuration related to the issue
    • Sitemap configuration related to the issue
    • Rules code related to the issue
    • Services configuration related to the issue

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You need to fill a string variable with the base64 data. See here for some example code to convert to base64 there should be some examples that are closer to your use case.

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I had my zoneminder in the overview and just used the web url option.

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