Looking to include screen shot of camera in notification

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
I would like to set up a notification that is triggered by a door / window sensor, but will send me a notification / alert with a screen shot or clip of a camera.

2) What is the expected behavior?
Send notification with screen shot / clip from specific camera

3) What is happening/not happening?
Not receiving picture in notification

4) Post a Green Snapshot of the pistonimage

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I have tried other combinations as well but can’t figure it out.

Thanks for the help!

#2

Hi @MikesST,
no idea how to do that :))) but just curious, how do you execute this piston?

#3

Hi! I removed the execution part for testing just to get it working.

#5

To accomplish this in Vera I used a plugin called VeraAlerts. I really hope there is a solution for SmartThings!

Thanks in advance.

#6

If you connect your camera to Blue Iris (BI), you can setup BI to take snapshots in response to HTTP commands from WC, and BI provides a generic link to the latest snapshot, which can be included in the notification.

WC cannot handle the actual image clips directly, there were some early attempts to include such a feature but it took too much storage on the WC servers.

#7

Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. I run Blue Iris and this is a good idea. Can you provide me a link or two to point me in the right direction to get it started?

Thanks!

#8

or pages 77-78 in the BI manual:

http://www.warf.com/download/5982_1816_Blue-Iris-Chm-Help-File-03-30-2013.v3.pdf