Determine Camera Based on Email Subject

[erwinloh]

Hi, I have 2 cameras from the same server - but you can only name 1 camera - how do I set it up for 2 cameras?

Thanks!

[Sunoo]

Do you have notifications enabled in the home app?

[erwinloh]

@Sunoo Ok I worked it out, all working now for that Frontyard camera!

The only question is how do I get 2 cameras working? Both cameras are sending notifications to the 1 camera as I can only have 1 email address.

[Sunoo]

Hmm... not sure how to handle that, it was kinda written around the idea of unique emails per camera. Can you control anything per camera? I could potentially add an option to check the subject?

[erwinloh]

It's fine, I can set two emails at once, so 1 camera motion will just notify both cameras in Home - I tested it and it works - I'll just have to check to see which one in Home. Not sure how else we can work around this.

[Sunoo]

Can you share a screenshot of whatever options you have in your email setup? Maybe I can figure something out.

[erwinloh]

Here:

[Sunoo]

Oh, yea... that’s not a lot of options. Not sure what I can do there unfortunately.

[erwinloh]

It's fine - at least I can send 1 notification to both cameras!

[erwinloh]

@Sunoo I analysed the contents of the emails, and they are different from each camera.

Are you able to add a new field that is a keyword in the Subject of the email, and use that to decide which camera is being triggered, instead of the email address?

For example, with my two cameras, the subject includes the term "Channel A1" or "Channel A2" depending on the camera. They both go to the same email address.

[Sunoo]

Could you share what the emails look like? I could probably find a way to support them.

[erwinloh]

[Sunoo]

I should be able to support that, will try to work on it this weekend if I’ve got some time.

[erwinloh]

Thanks! That would be great - this means you can support multiple devices off the same email address, by redirecting the email to different devices based on the subject.

[Sunoo]

Yea, just want to determine a clean way to support it. I have some ideas, but I’ll need to test them.

[erwinloh]

Thanks. In fact, once you've added this, I intend to also use it to allow my security alarm system, which can send an email to let me know when it's armed or disarmed, to send the email to your plugin, and I'm going to create "fake sensors" in home, that will trigger notifications to say that Alarm On has motion, and Alarm Off has motion. At least that's the theory...

[erwinloh]

Basically, using your plugin to trigger notifications in Home for other devices that can send SMTP emails.

[Tomcraft1980]

I give this +1
Your plugin is the only one working so far. This would really be a great enhancement as owners of NVRs only can setup one email address on the NVR for all cameras.
I did not get the following plugins to work but both of them support parsing the mail for keywords:
https://github.com/rpruden/smtp2http
https://github.com/SphtKr/homebridge-smtpsensor
Maybe you can use some ideas from these plugins to enhance your nicely working plugin. ;-)

Emails from the Reolink NVR look like this:

[Sunoo]

I have an idea for how to implement this. I have a version that should be coming in the next few days. This should be in the version after that, hopefully not too much later.

[Tomcraft1980]

lol... that reply was fast! ;-)
Awesome news! Can't wait to test the new plugin version.
Thanks in advance!

[erwinloh]

Thanks in advance too!

[Tomcraft1980]

Did you get any further on this topic? I'm so excited to test the new feature.

[Sunoo]

I’m in the middle of a move, so that’s kinda cut in the my ability to write code. I have the feature maybe 70% complete, but at this point I can’t work on it at all for the next maybe two weeks.

[Tomcraft1980]

Thanks for the quick update.
I wish you a hopefully relaxed move.

[beezkneezdeez]

Hey! thought I would checkin on this, it would surely help a tremendous amount of people :)

[soxrok2212]

Hi @Sunoo, any update on this feature? I have an NVR with multiple cameras linked up, but can only get an e-mail from one.