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@aleleu62_232174521270407 Interesting, I came here to share my similar solution. Though I'm using inotify-tools rather than FTP logs to get an instant trigger. I'll share below:I came up with a solution on my own - setting Reolink up to FTP images to a Linux server on my local network, which uses inotifywait (from inotify-tools) watching for close_write (FTP user finished writing new file) to instantly trigger a curl command to send the image to the service of my choice (locally running NTFY.sh server, but this could also be to a webhook receiver anywhere on the web). This lets me have a feed of event snapshots to my computers, using the NTFY.sh website subscribed to my local server. It works great - it reacts just as fast as the Reolink android app which uses Google's notification network. Hopefully this gives enough hints to folks wanting to build their own thing.As you can see from my solution, all I really wanted was rich notifications (images included) on my desktop computers. NTFY.sh can also run on Android, so this approach would also work for that, too. The only thing I'm missing is knowing WHY the event was triggered - the Reolink FTP filenames just include the camera number, not whether it was a person, motion, vehicle, or pet being detected, so that cannot be exposed via this flow. If you need that for your use case, this won't work for you.I would most like having the ability to run any CURL command desired, and surface as many fields as possible as Linux bash variables, so they could be included - ie, camera name, reason for the triggger (motion, vehicle, person, visitor (someone rung doorbell), pet, etc), image, etc.
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