I'm using motionEye to capture motion events and to store the evidence as jpg and mp4. I'm able to transfer the filename (\\192.168.1.173/share/camera1/LastMotion.mp4) to Node-Red. This filename works when used in any desktop app or browser to open the file.
Unfortunately, the node red file load says that the file does not exist. It only works for local files (/home/pi/shares/video.mp4).
Can anybody help? .. I do need to load the remote file into a node red buffer object.
In the browser is it http://192...etc?
If so then it isn't a share and you will have to use an http node to fetch it. However if you have shared the folder using samba then you you should be able to mount the share as a folder on the node red pi and access it as a file. That is the way I would do it.
Is a network share using SMB (Server Message Block - a Microsoft standard). To access that, you need SAMBA installed and configured. However, I've not tried the file node with a network file share - I think it should work.