Hikvision Camera Event (Motion) Sensors

[tinglis1 (Tim)]

If you have come across this tread and are looking to use hikvision events on HA then check out the development thread that has a working component in testing.
I am no longer using the nodejs scripts posted above.

Hikvision event stream sensors

I wrote the post below about how I setup a nodejs script to update sensors in HA. I have started to look at turning this into a compnent. I experimented using pycurl but ended up blocking HA. I have not played around with asyncio or aiohttp yet and am not sure how to put that together. What I am looking for here is some guidance on how to create a component that will monitor the Hikvision http stream and update the appropriate sensors. The stream from the Hikvision is a multipart http strea…