Security Camera Recommendations

[watou (John Cocula)]

@mstormi

Do I have to use SMTP/FTP alarming and build some SMTP/FTP-to-OH script mimic or is there a more clever way?

I would like to know as well! It’s a shame the later Foscam cameras no longer document a motion callback URL.

But @PolishBen has been working on a CCTV “snapshot” binding that processes images that could be deposited via FTP onto the openHAB server:

Binding to integrate with imagery generated by motion detection CCTV

Hi All I have been migrating my house across from OpenWRT and a bunch of custom lua scripts to OpenHab running on a Raspberry Pi 2 and I’m loving it! This is my first post on the forum and I wanted to get your opinions on an idea I had for a binding - maybe there’s something out there already that does something similar? One thing I’ve recently set up is a Hikvision camera outside the house which monitors my front drive. I’ve configured motion detection so that when there’s movement across m…

Ultimately this would be the cleanest solution for cameras that can’t signal motion more directly.