Alarm Trigger to "trigger" Camera recording / Picture

[greg.g...@gmail.com]

Hi 

Right now we have camera Motion triggering the Script to generate Alerts .. like Emailing a picture etc ...Good !

I was thinking of turning this on its head and doing a Alarm rules trigger to generate the recording event ??

let me explain my logic here , I have Many many false positives on camera motion even with tuning masks etc .. so i was thinking to rather have a reliable alarm sensor trigger the Camera event ...

Do you think think this is possible ? 

even if we leave the current Motion software to record at will .. and then just pull the latest JPEG from the recorded events at a Alarm event .. pretty much exactly what is happening now with the current webcam software , all we would need is a rules based EVENT condition modification to allow for this ????

Thx

Greg

 

[Gadjet Nut]

An "Email Photo" action is coming in the next release (upcoming days). It will send the latest photo in a specified directory. So you can have the motion (or some other) application put photos in that directory and then action the email photo based on a reliable event like door open or motion detected from a PIR sensor.

Another action in the next release will be the ability to switch a relay. This will allow you to switch things on/off based on temperature, door open/close, motion etc...

Regards,

Jonathan

[greg.g...@gmail.com]

Perfect ! Looking forward to it :-)

I love this project !!

[Gadjet Nut]

Hi Greg,

[Gadjet Nut]

The "Email photo" rule has been added. See the latest post on that.

[greg.g...@gmail.com]

already added and tested ! seems to work perfectly :-) Thanks