nodered-securitycam

Retrieval of e-mail, extraction of image attachments, resizing and creation of slideshow for MQTT

If your security cam only sends e-mail attachments, there is the possibility to deal with ONFIV or to process these e-mails further.

• nodered-securitycam
  • FEATURES
  • REQUIREMENTS
    • ADDITIONAL NODES
    • CONFIGURATION
  • EXAMPLE
  • REMARKS
  • LICENSE

FEATURES

• Connect to IMAP server
• Retrieval unread e-mail of security cams from dedicated mailbox
• Mark already processed e-mails as read
• Split by securitycam (only necessary if there are several cams)
• Extract attachments (images) out of e-mail
• Shrink the images to 400px width (configuration in flow variable)
• Write each single image to folder
• Endless loop, which outputs the images in an interval of 10s
• Show output in Node-RED preview
• Send output to MQTT topic

REQUIREMENTS

ADDITIONAL NODES

• node-red-node-email
• node-red-contrib-image-tools

CONFIGURATION

• Configure a dedicated mailbox for the security cams, otherwise you have to separate this emails in your flow
• Make sure the user that runs the Node-RED process has read and write access to the folder for the images

EXAMPLE

You can find an example in the GitHUB repository: flows-nodered-securitycam.json

REMARKS

If you decide to use flow- or global variables instead of writing the images to a folder, take care of your heap memory. More information in CHANGELOG.md

LICENSE

nodered-securitycam and all individual scripts are under the BSD 3-Clause license unless explicitly noted otherwise. Please refer to the LICENSE