What are Ezlo’s plans for professional IP security cameras?
I’ve just installed two new 4k Hikvision IP cams and used @Sorin implementation file project and a 3rd party stripped down version of it and the Hikvision “alpha” plugin in the Vera app store on my Vera Plus.
I am not keen on having the actual camera images jpg snapshots in the Vera hub or their rtsp streams due to limited resources on the Vera box, but it was the virtual motion sensor devices I did want in Vera. I don’t want Vera to record or archive camera events. The cameras themselves will record or a Hikvision NVR box.
The plugin / implementation file reads the Hikvision cameras alert stream information looking for motion detection events these control the virtual motion sensors in Vera.
Ideally on the new Ezlo platform, I’d want to be able to add camera video streams for viewing into the mobile dashboard app, either rtsp or mjpg.
And on the Ezlo hub itself be able to have these virtual motion sensors pulling motion detection events from the Hikvision cameras alert streams.
And what does such integration with Vera / Home automation system bring?
I now have Picture in picture on my Fire TV stick upon motion detection of a camera, using TinyCam Pro and Tasker. And Using Tasker Network Event Server. Vera fires http commands to Tasker to display the camera video in PIP.
Similar on my Kodi HTPCs using the Cam overlay plugin for Kodi, Vera sends a curl command to the Kodi boxes to display the camera image in a popup.
All Android Imperihome home control tablets popup a camera image upon motion detection actually using TinyCam Pro / Tasker on the tablets to display the camera video and then returning back to Imperihome after the motion event. As Imperihome’s own IP cam support is weak and buggy.
Google Home TTS announcements made via Vera / Node Red upon motion detection on the cameras.
Other things, I have been able to configure Vera with Virtual switch devices to turn off or on the motion detection on the Hikvision cameras using their ISAPI API.
Also to have Vera fire http commands to the cameras for them to start a “manual” recording event.
Imperihome Android app.