Also agree with what you wrote, it just comes down to:
a. who will code it, see bounty below.
b. keeping the cloud free which means keeping data passing through the cloud to an acceptable amount. It is paid for by donations and membership, see Donate | openHAB
You can create a bounty on this here…
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I guess you could look at suggesting:
- Sending only a http text only link. I don’t know if this is not already possible but I dont see the value in it compared to the next two…
- Sending an optional static jpg picture instead of an icon. JPG is probably a 200kb to 1mb file from cameras.
- Sending a GIF that moves instead of the icon. Due to reducing resolution and compression I think I had 5 second long moving GIF files that were around 300kb each.
- MP4
You can create a filesize check and refuse to send the cloud any files larger than 2mb and perhaps that would be acceptable to use on the myopenhab cloud. Streaming cameras non stop via the cloud is something that wont be accepted, but a 2mb file max limit only on events/push messages, perhaps that would. I do not know but if you were going to start a bounty it would not be hard to get a yes/no on what would be be ok.