Automate as in the ios app for Vera?
I dont have any ios devices only Android.
automate is android app
If the Hikvision nvr can send out a http alarm on motion start and stop it would be easy to add virtual motion sensors in Vera.
But I don’t know if the nvr’s have that function?
That might work then I could run it on a wall mounted tablet in the house.
i have a andorid box behind my tv, this gives my tv a better smart tv functions, i use this to display the cctv app when a front door sensor is tripped.
So push notifications sent to the Android device from the NVR for motion start and stop.
Are then sent out via Automate app as a http request to control the virtual motion sensor in Vera as tripped not tripped?
My nvr sends a push notification to the app on my android device, the app then displays a nofication. I then use automate to intercept the notification and then send a http request to vera. On vera i use @therealdb virtual http plugin, which has virtual sensors.
My nvr does not send a push notification on motion stop.
But you could send a http request when you dismiss the notification if you wish
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I see so how do the virtual motion sensors in Vera become untripped?
And you have a different virtual motion sensor in Vera for each camera / channel on the NVR?
i use reactor/scenes to reset after 5 seconds
Yes i have 2, 1 front door and one back, i don’t bother on other 2 cameras but i could if i wished.
OK thank you very much for your suggestions I will keep them in mind.
Any other suggestions from anyone else?
I have a similar setup, plus I trigger a tablet running Fully Kiosk to launch my cameras and close it back after a couple of minutes.
I do that with my doorbell cam and the Imperihome app on the tablets, it brings up the cam image and then closes.
This is how I integrated the doorbell cam with Vera but I had to use Blue Iris.
If I buy an NVR I don’t want to have to use Blue Iris as well as my PC isnt fast enough for more cameras.
This video is a Fibaro Home Center 2 demo with a 16ch Hikvision NVR that has four alarm outputs on the back of it.
He is using 2x Fibaro Universal Binary Sensors or the Fibaro Smart Implant could be used.
So you’d need an NVR with several alarm output ports on it, to do more than one camera integration in to Vera for virtual motion sensors.
The 8ch NVR I was looking at only has one alarm output port. I’d need at least two alarm output ports.
Or some of the Hikvision cameras have their own alarm outputs on them, so you could connect a Fibaro Universal Binary Sensor directly to a camera rather than to the back of the NVR.
I have Zwave motion sensors under my two porches and connected to my synology nas. They work very well. I will probably move to something else soon, mainly because I don’t want to change batteries every year. They’re protected from rain but outside for the last two years.
I added them because animals and trees were always triggering false negatives.
Surely with the intrusion detection area or line crossing you can reduce false negatives?
I do currently have one outdoor Everspring SP816-1 motion sensor at the porch.
Works well but it is battery operated as you say.
Which zwave motion sensors do you use?
some very cheap no brand chinese or something. They work very well, even under 0 C. Here in South Italy it’s just 10 days in a year, so batteries last 12-18 months.
I’ll probably add more things in the garden this summer, so I’m planning to migrate to a non-battery option. but if you’re OK with batteries, those are OK.
The following POE NVRs all have 4x alarm output ports:
8ch
DS-7708NI-K4/8P [broken link removed]
DS-7708NI-I4/8P [broken link removed]
16ch
None POE models with 4x alarm output ports
8ch
DS-7708NI-K4 [broken link removed]
DS-7708NI-I4 [broken link removed]
16ch
K series are the cheaper ones but have version 3.4.x of the firmware. The I series are more expensive and have the later version 4.2.x firmware.
EDIT: Apparently at some point the K series did get the version 4 firmware but Hikvision have since pulled it.
I got a new Hikvision DS-2CD2045FWD-I IP cam delivered today, my first one. Using the Hikvision plugin for Vera and a bit of tweaking, I now have a working motion sensor device in Vera for the camera. See here.