5sec video from Camera to Telegram - Node Red

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Hello smart guys,
on my previous system (competitor) I used to have a great automation:

When someone push the ring button, my ONVIF camera recorded 5s video and it was sent to me through Telegram.
I love to use the Node Red.

These are the steps:

  • Pressing the button (easy)
  • recording a 5sec video and probably saving it temporarily somewhere to disk
  • sending the video through Telegram (My telegram messages are already working)

What NR nodes should I use to:

  • recording and saving the video
  • Sending the video through Telegram

thank you,
Michal, Slovakia

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Anyone who can do it without node red?

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The problem here is that it’s hard to record that short of a period. For whatever reason even if you tell it to record a second it records 10 or 11 seconds. This may be my cameras idk. You will have to try and see what is the min time you can record.

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Thanks for reply,
I have this on my previous system - OpenHAB. I have done it with two rules:

rule "terasa.zvoncek-mp4-telegram.mp4"
when
    Channel "mihome:sensor_switch:286c0785f092:158d000129909b:button" triggered SHORT_PRESSED
then
    //Start creating the MP4
    getActions("ipcamera", "ipcamera:onvif:34aaa0d217").recordMP4("ipcamera",5)
end

rule "terasa.zvoncek-mp4-telegram.telegram"
when
    Item Doorbell_recordingMP4 changed to 0
then
    logInfo("terasa.zvoncek-mp4-telegram.telegram", "posielam 5s video")
    val telegramAction = getActions("telegram","telegram:telegramBot:e13f59dd1f")
    telegramAction.sendTelegramAnimation("file:///etc/openhab/html/camera1/ipcamera.mp4", "Niekto zvoní na terase")
end

It was very useful, so I am looking for something similar now in HA. I bet it can be done somehow. I will try to analyze your code, but I am lost in my work now. Is it possible to transform the command to Node Red?

Thank you,
Michal