Hi,
i’ve created the following workflow. When someone is ringing the bell or the front door gets opened or movement gets detected, Home Assistant tells Zoneminder to create a video of that event. After the video is created it will be send via telegram to my smartphone. The shell script needs a little bit of improveness of someone who can script better than me. Here is my home assistant config:
Automation.yaml
- alias: Create Video Frontdoor
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.meq1486266_state
- binary_sensor.motiondetect01_state
to: 'on'
action:
- service: script.create_video
Script.yaml
script:
create_video:
alias: 'Script Sequence Creating Video'
sequence:
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.zm_trigger_flur
- delay: 00:00:30
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.zm_trigger_flur
- service: shell_command.create_video
switch.yaml
switch:
platform: telnet
switches:
zm_trigger_flur:
resource: 'localhost'
port: 6802
command_on: '4|on|123|textstring1|textstring2'
command_off: '4|off|123|textstring1|textstring2'
shell_command.yaml
shell_command:
create_video: 'ssh [email protected] /home/user/home-assistant/shell_scripts/create_video_flur.sh'
create_video_flur.sh
#!/bin/sh
curl -d "username=user&password=password&action=login&view=console" -c /home/user/cookies.txt http://localhost/zm/index.php
zm_eventid=$(curl -s -b cookies.txt -XGET "http://localhost/zm/api/events/index/MonitorId:4.json" | rev | cut -d ',' -f34 | rev | cut -d ':' -f3 | cut -c2- | rev | cut -c2- | rev)
video=$(sudo /usr/bin/zmvideo.pl -e $zm_eventid --format mp4)
video_sound=$(ffmpeg -y -loglevel panic -i $video -f lavfi -i anullsrc -c:v copy -c:a aac -shortest -strict -2 video-sound_flur.mp4)
curl -s _X POST "https://api.telegram.org/bot111111111:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/sendVideo" -F chat_id=-11111111 -F video="@video-sound_flur.mp4"
Let me explain create_video_flur.sh:
- Line 1 (curl -d …): Creating Cookie for ZoneMinder API Login (https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html)
- Line 2: Uses cookie to read last eventid for monitor id 4 (please, somebody can simplify this cut, rev, cut, … part)
- Line 3: Line uses event id from zoneminde to create the video (zmvideo.pl is included in zoneminder installation)
- Line 4: Because Zoneminder doesnt record any audio, this line is for add a silent audio line to the video beacause without that, telegram converts the video to gif
- Line 5: Send that video file to telegram user
Requirements:
- OPT_TRIGGERS need to be enabled in Zone Minder (Options -> System -> OPT_TRIGGERS (enable)
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/ZMTrigger or https://wiki.zoneminder.com/How_to_use_your_external_camera's_motion_detection_with_ZM
Hope somebody can use it.
