I would like to share a tool that I wrote to solve a specific problem, but in an abstract way that could potentially solve many problems for many people.
Abstract solution
I had been researching how to capture motion events from Unifi Video (a home surveillance software system). However Unifi Video does not support MQTT. Inspired by mzac’s unifi-video-mqtt script I wrote a more abstract solution called logs-to-mqtt-publisher that monitors a log file, matches on regular expressions, and publishes a topic/message to an MQTT broker.
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I imagine that those of us that are running in docker could more easily benefit from this solution. However I would like feedback from others who have logs that they would like to convert to MQTT events that cannot make use of docker. There may be a way to still use this tool.
Example
Here is a Unifi Video specific example, if you go through the README it explains how to test this, if you’d like to experiment.
I am publishing this to docker hub and npm. Docker Hub NPM
Latest documentation
See the README in the github repository for the latest documentation.
Additional background
I’m a software engineer by trade and lately I’ve been playing around in the open-source space. Something about solving a specific problem I have and allowing others to use the solution and potentially contribute seems like the superior approach, so I’ve been publishing as much of the code I write as possible.
Please let me know if you can make use of this and how I can help!