This is how you add an INSTAR Full HD MQTT camera to Node-RED. MQTT Broker You start by configuring the MQTT broker inside the cameras webUI under Network/MQTT. Here you can set: MQTT Server Address: Leave at 127.0.0.1 to use the internal broker MQTT Server Port: Default 1883, adjust if needed …

[image] mpxd: start by configuring the MQTT broker inside the cameras webUI Does that mean that a broker is provided which runs inside the camera itself?

Hi Colin, yes - this firmware is currently available in an open beta and uses a Mosquitto MQTT broker. I wanted to continue to write a few example automation and post them here while I am testing the new feature. It is already running stable for me. EDIT: You can also configure it as a client usin…

This is the first stage of the MQTT API and currently it is covering the complete HTTP API (CGI commands) as well as a back-channel when a function is triggered through HTTP (when you click on a button in the camera webUI or your smartphone app you also receive a MQTT state update). The second stag…

Day Night Position My pan&tilt camera should use one preset position during the day, keeping an eye on my front door when I am at work. But use the second preset position to watch my car in the carport when I am at home. I need to configure different motion detection areas (different areas of inter…

Silent Mode Deactivate the Email and Push Notification as well as the video recording to SD card when I am at home. Modules Used node-red-contrib-bigtimer With Bigtimer I can define an absolute time or a time of the day like sunrise, dawn, etc. to trigger my sequence. Node-RED Flow [Silent_Mod…

Alarm Recording as long as there is Movement The internal alarm recording has a 3s pre-recording + a fixed recording length of 15-60s (adjustable from the webUI). I want to use Node-RED to make sure that the recording time always last as long as there is movement in front of the camera instead of ha…

Activate Nightvision when PIR detects Motion All IP cameras tend to run their IR LEDs all night to enable software-based motion detection. This causes a couple of problems besides the electric bill increase. There are cameras that have "invisible" IR LEDs usually working at 940nm - invisible to the …

Pan&Tilt Tour with dynamic Privacy Masks I want to create a PT tour in Node-RED and automatically adjust the motion detection areas as well as privacy masks depending on the position the camera is pointing at. This way I am certain that the camera's internal motion detection is always looking at the…

[image] mpxd: And last but not least the IR light attracts insects that keep flying in front of your camera triggering false alerts during the night. And once you have flying insects you quickly end up with spider webs in front of your camera that can cause false alerts day and night. This is…

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wb666greene 16 January 2020 15:20 4

I took a quick look, but didn't see support for getting image buffers via MQTT, is that possible?

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