matt1
(Skinah)
June 21, 2019, 12:23am
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You should be able to do this with the ipcamera binding as I added the ability to open doors via one of the channels. It may have been an alarm channel I re-used. By using the ipcamera binding you should be able to stream the video to multiple devices as normally the cameras are limited to a single stream.
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 a…
Also there is also a new Doorbird binding here…
Important Update:
The binding was merged into to the openHAB distribution today, Oct 17. It should be available in a snapshot release after build 1728, as well as the next milestone release.
We made several changes to the binding throughout the review process:
The restart and sipHangup channels were removed. They were replaced by the thing actions restart() and sipHangup() that can be called from within rules. There’s an example in the README.
The doorbell channel was redefined to be a s…