So it's detecting the motion and turning the light on correctly, but I'm not sure why it goes off almost immediately. Please let me know if I'm configuring it incorrectly.

https://github.com/JoshADC/securityspy

SS 6.17

Do I simply go "detection-advanced-"AI Powered"-adjust Human sensitivity to taste and expect that human motion "motion sensing" is what Home Assistant will see as a "sensor" for that camera?

Is a mid 2012 MacBook pro (2.5 Ghz Dual_core Intel Core i5) up to the task? (I would like to set up two of my cameras as "Human" detectors.

Thanks in advance!

Github -

"This Integration will no longer be maintained

I did give it a try, but I simply don't have the resources to maintain this integration anymore, and therefore I will remove it from the default HACS store. I will leave the Github Repository open, and I hope that someone else will be able to take it over."

too bad, I've been running it for a couple of years and it seemed fine.

my hunch is that HA is moving so quickly the overhead of chasing dependencies became too much for Briis.

SSpy automator perns, any thoughts on this?

I have a Dahua camera, attempt at getting support from the guy who sold me the cameras was unfruitful (he said he would help then ghosted me), and was not helpful from the company forum (resulted in my question being hidden on their forum). Other forum attempts have not provided any info. So this is my last post and I'm hoping somebody here can help me, else I'm going to be ditching these PTZ cameras and just going with lower quality Pi cameras for my application. The camera in question:

I have two questions.

Question One:

Why is that using this API, I am able to successfully send HTTP Requests to make the camera pan up, pan down, and stop but every other command gives me a 501 error?

I can get up and down to work using this format:

http://192.168.132.117/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=Up&arg1=0&arg2=1&arg3=0

which works and returns <Response [200]>

Similarly down works with:

http://192.168.132.117/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi?action=start&channel=0&code=Down&arg1=0&arg2=1&arg3=0

and returns <Response [200]>

But despite using the Armcrest HTTP API document (and this API doc from Empire Tech which has the same commands), I can't get left, right, zoom, goto_preset or any other commands to work:

http://192.168.132.117/cgi-bin/ptz.cgi&action=start&channel=0&code=Left&arg1=0&arg2=0&arg3=0

<Response [501]>

** this doesn't change even if I pass a number 1-8 to arg2

I used AI to come up with hundreds of possible commands for pan left in case code=Left wasn't the correct one, and NONE of them worked.

Question Two:

Is the secret here that these companies don't want average users using HTTP Requests or ONVIF for their cameras despite advertising these capabilities? Are companies like Blue Iris paying Dahua for an accurate API so they can develop?

Many thanks for any generous help with this last ditch effort to use these cameras.

I use the interface to turn lights on and off within the camera's field of vision. When the lights turn off, it triggers a false event, so the lights just keep going on and off. I've tried using Indigo variables to some success to create a window where the event triggers are ignored, but given that the event recordings are variable in length, it's not that precise. If there were an event flag for end of recording, that would solve my issue. I have tried using the AI (person, animal, vehicle) triggers, but they still trigger on the lights (on/off). Other ideas welcome. Thanks.

Notes

1. I installed an $29 bluetooth outdoor speaker to the side of the house and paired it with a Mac Mini running SS. In the actions I selected custom audio with a loud dog barking for 2 cams.
2. For the driveway I installed a TP Link smart plug and joined it to HomeKit via a Hubitat C8 Pro (I believe TP Link also makes a plug for HomeKit native). I paired the smart plug to HomeKit and used HomeHelper to set up a new action. I chose this action from the SS actions menu. I connected the vac pipe to the vac exhaust to also blow air in addition to an uproarious noise when it switches on.
3. For both cams, the barking dog audio is played for about 10 seconds
4. For the driveway, the vacuum is turned on for 10 seconds. You can see it, covered with a white plastic bag, at the corner of the garage.
5. I'm using the new Amcrest panoramic cam for the driveway. It has 2 sensors that are merged into one image (180 deg).

Thank you

The problem is the neighbor's cat keeps making its mess in front of the house. I have a HomeKit socket with a leaf blower attached to scare the cat away.

Currently, I have an additional camera set up with Action Triggers set only to "Animal." I find it quite cumbersome to have to use an extra camera for this purpose. It would be great if it were possible to select in the settings which trigger should activate the Home Action.

Similarly, when a sound is to be played during an action, it should only be played for a human, for example, but not for an animal or a car.

If it's not currently possible to configure it this way, it would be great if this could be included in the settings in an update.

Does SS provide an onward rtsp stream that can be used via HA's Generic Camera platform? https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/generic/

Perhaps the best way is to just source rtsp direct from the cameras instead (if your cameras do rtsp)...

I have:

• Securityspy
• HomeHelper
• Aqara M3 Hub

I'm trying to figure out how to have the Hub say "motion detected in location, when one of the SecuritySpy cameras detects motion. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to get this done. The Trigger for the camera is configured but the camera(s) do not show up in HomeHelper. I see the Hub in Triggers, but not actions.

I was unable to find documentation other than the HomeHelper page, is there more in depth documentation?

Unfortunately, one of my Actions is to send the captured image email, so now have to send emails for every motion trigger, even though I really only want those in certain presets. (for example I only want motion image emails from interior cameras when motion is detected and the "alarm is armed" preset is active)

Is there anyway to get the motion event data sent to HA, even if Actions are not enabled?

Wanted to check this question before downloading home helper and spending time messing about.

I have a Philips hue strip light at the front door where I also have a camera, the light appears in HomeKit and I can control it from there.

Can I use the motion detect trigger from security spy to tell the home kit light to come on and off again once the motion detect trigger has gone off ?

Thanks James

• M1 MacMini 
• dedicated Gigabit POE network
• 2 Hikvision Fisheye (H264@6MP)
• 6 Hikvision (H265@4MP)
• 6 Hikvision (ColorVu) (H265@8MP)
• 1 Hikvision PTZ (LPR) (H265@4MP)
• 1 Dahua PTZ (auto tracking) (H265@4MP)
• 1 Reolink Doorbell (H264@5MP)

Typically the resource usage is minimal and for storage I use:

• 1 x 6TB WD Purple via USB 3 and this allows me to get 90 days of AI Events on all cameras. 

I also keep 14 days rolling in B2 Cloud Storage which has been surprisingly robust for almost realtime backups.

I run various Home Automation via another server and heavily use the run script action to provide realtime alerting based on AI detections via sending HTTP requests directly from SecuritySpy.

To achieve the granular control i require, I have duplicated some cameras to allow a different URL to be called for both vehicle and human detections and this works relatively well.

I have these duplicated cameras deselected in the web server settings and no recording setup on the duplicates only AI actions. Initially I was of the impression that the duplicated cameras would cause minimal overhead from a decoding prospective due to Security Spy only needing to decode the stream once but lately I’ve been receiving periodic decoder overload errors.

Whereas this never occurred prior to the duplicate cameras being added. I’ve since assigned these duplicate cameras to the software encoder (being sure to match the encoder of the original) and this works, with CPU showing minimum 30% idle, but I do get some dropped frames/choppiness in recorded footage. 

**Feature Request**

It would be great if I could specify different actions based on each AI Trigger specially human and vehicle.

any tips would be greatly appreciated.

1. Option for app to switch display for a set time on camera motion.
2. Option for the display to be shown in pip on camera motion.

Error retrieving data from SecuritySpy.

Not sure how to diagnose this issue. I am able to ping the MAC that the SS is installed on from the HA environment. The HA machine is on the NON-Camera LAN (the public/Internet LAN).

Any help would be great!!

Feature: Add option to execute arbitrary server action from contextual menu on image display. The most flexible option would be to execute a pre-defined SecuritySpy action, or a shell script. This could be done by right clicking on the image and selecting the script, or a run script option, from the contextual menu. The action or shell script could then use shell programming, osascript, python, expect, etc.

These are my current use cases. Each one is associated with a camera with a view of the area where I would like the action to take place:

1. open a gate at the entrance to our property
2. open or close the door to a chicken coop
3. turn on/off a light inside the chicken coop
4. turn on/off the garden lights
5. turn on/off the pool lights

Thank you for considering this.

I have a storefront window that has constant traffic outside, which would trigger motion-based recording. I can't really block it off as an ignore zone because everything I WOULD want to capture is between the camera and that massive window.

So I would love to set up a PIR motion sensor which can't see through glass and have THAT trigger recording instead. Does that make sense?

I'm running SecuritySpy v5.4.2 and homehelper v1.0.2(4)

In SecuritySpy, for the camera I'd like to trigger on I've enabled Motion detection, set a Motion Capture AI trigger to 50 (Human threshold), and a Audio trigger of 50. Nothing for the camera shows up in Homehelper, however.

Am I missing something obvious?

I recenlty moved from a Mac Pro to a Mac Studio and the Mac Pro had all devices available, but I'm not seeing some of them on the Mac Studio.

I'm trying to use HomeHelper to trigger Homepod audio when motion is detected on one of my outdoor cameras, and that camera's motion trigger sensor (created by Homebridge) doesn't show up as an Action in HomeHelper. The Home app shows all of the devices, as well.

How can I force HomeHelper to show me all devices?

I tried to install HomeHelper to connect to HomeKit, but first an upgrade of SecuritySpy v5 was needed.

After the upgrade, HomeHelper gives the error message "Connection to HomeKit failed". How can I solve this?