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May 9, 2022, 6:21am
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There is now a new Beta Edge driver for camera and motion integration, Hikvision cameras confirmed streaming in Smartthings along with motion detection
If you have IP cameras, many of them may be ONVIF-compliant (or at least ‘compatible’). If so, this driver will provide a way to locally integrate these cameras into SmartThings and provide both video streaming (with some caveats) and motion alerts.
As of the creation of this post, this driver should be very much considered BETA-level, and the purpose of this post is to solicit additional testers. Thus far it is working with both Reolink and Hikvision cameras, and I’d like to have it tested on others.
If you are interested, I ask that you also have the SmartThings CLI available to obtain logs, especially if you are trying a camera other than Reolink or Hikvision. The ONVIF network interface is not simple and there are lots of places where things can go wrong, especially with cameras t…
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