It depends on how your docker install was done? To add stuff to NodeRed that will persist container restarts, there needs to be a mapping so that at the very least node_modules is persistent?
Yes MQTT broker is really easy to install, although if you have already have the Home Assistant websocket node installed and working, you may we well just use that until you reach the point where you have a definite need for MQTT.
I use volumes to store config data persistently, it’s not forgetting any other nodes I’ve installed, strange.
Anyway, ok I’ll check out websocket then.
Just wanted to report back that Node-Red was indeed the solution!
Remember that my camera only sends intrusion detection events ‘IsInside: true’. It never sends ‘IsInside: false’ afterwards. So the binary sensor went to on once and then stayed there.
Even when using a template sensor with an auto_off, that would turn the template sensor off indeed, but it would never go to on again, because the ONVIF integration was waiting for a change, not a repeat message.
So now I’ve made a Node-Red flow that reads the ONVIF event for intrusion detection and doesn’t care if the state changes or not (because it doesn’t):
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The ‘start listening’ is injected when the flow is deployed, so you don’t have to press that.
The magic is in the trigger node, which sets the NR_hikvision_intrusion_detection entity state to true when a message is received.
It doesn’t care which message, that’s already been filtered out by the two switch nodes.
It then puts it back to false 10 seconds later.
So the field detection binary sensor, from the ONVIF integration, just sits there:
BTW1: I informed Hikvision about this bug using both their Benelux and Global email addresses. In both cases I got a response that I should contact my local retailer, so they won’t do a thing with it.
BTW2: This:
Was fixed by manually editing the Node-Red package.json file, adding this line:
I’m so glad that we were able to find a way to resolve this problem 
Have the same problem with my new G2 hybrid camera, older Hikvision models integrated via Onvif don’t have the issue.
I don’t want to install/configure NodeRed only to fix the messed camera firmware.
Would like to ask whether the problem has already been reported to Hikvision so I can escalate the resolution via firmware? Thanks
