Video Doorbells
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@therealdb said in Video Doorbells:
Overall, I like my setup, the only thing I regret is that this system is closed and I can't capture a screenshot of the wide-angle camera easily.
My NVR his so old that the SSL encryption is obsolete, so the email no longer functions. I capture images with Automate and use Automate to send an email with the screenshot to my device or FTP server. If your system has an App it may be possible to capture the screen with Automate.
@Elcid Yep, I was thinking about this. The only problem is that the video is taken exclusively from the app it's responding, so we'll see. I'll probably just run another eth cable outside and put a new cam anyway. Right now I'm too busy with my central air cooling and the pool that the doorbell has less priority than before (and that's because we had 2 months of complete lock down, so the only visitor was couriers/postmen). The doorbel per se is not bad => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LG-Of--JU8
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°@rafale77 said in Video Doorbells:I also get snapshots through push notifications through pushover on motion like all of my other IPcams. Movement detection is switched on and off by openLuup... based on house mode.°(information text)
How do you use pushover from openluup I’ve only been able to do growl and sms. Also being able to include framegrab in message would be great.
@prophead answering my own question here.
I'm very pleased I figured out how to use Pushover for notifications with images.
because luup.inet.wget cannot do post I used curl to grab the images(s) and another curl to post the image(s) to pushover. Each pushover notification can only have one image so when I need multiple camera angles like for the doorbell I just send two notifications. Works great! Man, OpenLuup is a great piece of software. Just great.
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Really glad things are working well for you.
As mentioned earlier, the module you’d need to use to do this directly in Lua would be LuaSocket.
However, if you now have something that works, why change? Just for future reference, then!
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@sender
Be careful with the placement as these sensors can see through doors and thin walls, You can block the sensor with thin metal to stop false trips.
I mounted my sensor in meter cupboard and place a section of angle iron at bottom to stop trips from cats etc. The white box at bottom contains the sensor and Shelly
@Elcid Hi, have the sensor, I will place outside in UV and waterproof case. As below:
I have read the ebay ad very well and I have not yet tested it. But I leave the light sensor to OFF, hold time to 5 secs and only questions are:
- Is the radar sensor on the front or the back? Thus does it sense "through" the letters or the back of the device?
- The "cat" problem... I will also put it around 20cm above floor level outside and put around 100% initially which is equivalent to 10m. "how" and what have you done? Like this:
For this to work I would need to know exactly where the sensor is
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@Elcid Hi, have the sensor, I will place outside in UV and waterproof case. As below:
I have read the ebay ad very well and I have not yet tested it. But I leave the light sensor to OFF, hold time to 5 secs and only questions are:
- Is the radar sensor on the front or the back? Thus does it sense "through" the letters or the back of the device?
- The "cat" problem... I will also put it around 20cm above floor level outside and put around 100% initially which is equivalent to 10m. "how" and what have you done? Like this:
For this to work I would need to know exactly where the sensor is
@sender I have not opened that model but i do have one. it has a 360 degree field that seems to come out the top, which is next to the led.
Before connecting do some testing on the outputs as i beleive it is labeled incorrectly. i.e. L/N are reversed, check my image.
This one is in a waterproof box by back gate and faces car port.
As to cats put metal at bottom and front as shown in your diagram. To add strong winds moving bushes can also set it off.
Your setting are. on on off off off off
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I also have the Ezviz DB1 video doorbell.
I wrote about the wiring and installation on my blog. I used an Everspring door contact sensor with binary inputs to also get a trigger into Vera.Overall pleased with it, but the doorbell can sometimes drop off the Ezviz app / their cloud and say offline sometimes, even though I can still ping and access it locally on my LAN and the local Rtsp stream also still works.
This happens occasionally after a power cut or when my Internet has gone off. I have to reset the doorbell camera and run through its setup again to recover.
Ezviz DB1 Video Doorbell with Z-Wave Vera Controller and Imperihome app
Written by a Microsoft Windows Entertainment & Connected Home MVP. Covering HTPC's MCE / XBMC / Kodi, Home Automation and related technologies.
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I also have the Ezviz DB1 video doorbell.
I wrote about the wiring and installation on my blog. I used an Everspring door contact sensor with binary inputs to also get a trigger into Vera.Overall pleased with it, but the doorbell can sometimes drop off the Ezviz app / their cloud and say offline sometimes, even though I can still ping and access it locally on my LAN and the local Rtsp stream also still works.
This happens occasionally after a power cut or when my Internet has gone off. I have to reset the doorbell camera and run through its setup again to recover.
Written by a Microsoft Windows Entertainment & Connected Home MVP. Covering HTPC's MCE / XBMC / Kodi, Home Automation and related technologies.
@cw-kid said in Video Doorbells:
This happens occasionally after a power cut or when my Internet has gone off. I have to reset the doorbell camera and run through its setup again to recover.
I had this problem early on, a couple of times but haven't seen it for at least a year. I posted the process to recover it on the IPcam forum which can be tricky if you changed the default credentials. I also have not upgraded firmware since the installation. It's been rock stable for me.
