Shinobi Video NVR
Description
Integration with Shinobi Video NVR. Creates the following components:
- Camera - per-camera defined.
- Binary Sensors (MOTION, SOUND) - per-camera defined.
- Support HLS Streams instead of H264.
- Support SSL with self-signed certificate.
- Support Face-Recognition plugin as an event
Requirements
- Shinobi Video Server
- Dashboard user with API Key (with all permissions)
- JPEG API enabled
- Optional: Motion detection - How to use Motion Detection
How to
Generate permanent API Key:
In Shinobi Video Dashboard, click your username in the top left.
A menu will appear, click API.
Add new token - IP: 0.0.0.0, Permissions - Select all
Installations via HACS
- In HACS, look for āShinobi Video NVRā and install
- In Configuration ā Integrations - Add Shinobi Video NVR
Integration settings
Basic configuration (Configuration ā Integrations ā Add Shinobi Video NVR)
| Fields name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Texbox | + | None | Hostname or IP address of the Shinobi Video server |
| Port | Textbox | + | 0 | HTTP Port to access Shinobi Video server |
| SSL | Check-box | + | Unchecked | Is SSL supported? |
| Username | Textbox | - | Username of dashboard user for Shinobi Video server | |
| Password | Textbox | - | Password of dashboard user for Shinobi Video server |
Integration options (Configuration ā Integrations ā Shinobi Video NVR Integration ā Options)
| Fields name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | Texbox | + | ast stored hostname | Hostname or IP address of the Shinobi Video server |
| Port | Textbox | + | 0ast stored port | HTTP Port to access Shinobi Video server |
| SSL | Check-box | + | Last stored SSL flag | Is SSL supported? |
| Username | Textbox | - | Last stored username | Username of dashboard user for Shinobi Video server |
| Password | Textbox | - | Last stored password | Password of dashboard user for Shinobi Video server |
| Log level | Drop-down | + | Default | Changes componentās log level (more details below) |
Log Levelās drop-down
New feature to set the log level for the component without need to set log_level in customization: and restart or call manually logger.set_level and loose it after restart.
Upon startup or integrationās option update, based on the value chosen, the component will make a service call to logger.set_level for that component with the desired value,
In case Default option is chosen, flow will skip calling the service, after changing from any other option to Default, it will not take place automatically, only after restart
Configuration validations
Upon submitting the form of creating an integration or updating options,
Component will try to log in into the Shinobi Video server to verify new settings, following errors can appear:
- Integration already configured with the same title
- Invalid server details - Cannot reach the server
Encryption key got corrupted
If a persistent notification popped up with the following message:
Encryption key got corrupted, please remove the integration and re-add it
It means that encryption key was modified from outside the code,
Please remove the integration and re-add it to make it work again.
Components
Binary Sensors
Each binary sensor will have the name pattern - {Integration Title} {Camera Name} {Sound / Motion},
Once triggered, the following details will be added to the attributes of the binary sensor:
Audio
Represents whether the camera is triggered for noise or not
Motion
Represents whether the camera is triggered for motion or not
Camera
State: Idle
| Attributes | Available values |
|---|---|
| Status | Recording, |
| Mode | stop (Disabled), start (Watch-Only), record (Record) |
| Type | H264, MJPEG, |
| FPS | - |
Events
Face Recognition - shinobi/face
Supports any face recognition plugin
Tested with DeepStack-Face
Payload:
{
"f": "detector_trigger",
"id": "MonitorID",
"ke": "GroupID",
"details": {
"plug": "Plugin Name",
"name": "Camera Name",
"reason": "face",
"matrices": [
{
"x": 0,
"y": 0,
"width": 0,
"height": 0,
"tag": "Uploaded image name",
"confidence": 0,
"path": "/dev/shm/streams/GroupID/MonitorID/FileName.jpg"
}
],
"imgHeight": 480,
"imgWidth": 640,
"time": 66
}
}
Object Detection - shinobi/object
Supports any object detection plugin
Tested with DeepStack-Object
Payload:
{
"f": "detector_trigger",
"id": "MonitorID",
"ke": "GroupID",
"details": {
"plug": "Plugin Name",
"name": "Camera Name",
"reason": "object",
"matrices": [
{
"x": 0,
"y": 0,
"width": 0,
"height": 0,
"tag": "Object name",
"confidence": 0,
"path": "/dev/shm/streams/GroupID/MonitorID/FileName.jpg"
}
],
"imgHeight": 480,
"imgWidth": 640,
"time": 66
}
}
