Camera activate/deactivate via Event

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We are working on some rather nice holiday homes where we use the Milestone system for security integrations.

We have developed a plugin, which integrates home automation protocols (in this case KNX) to Milestone. We can trigger events in the milestone system from our software

For privacy issues, some of our customers want to e.g. turn the pool camera off when they are in the house.

Not just turning off the recording functions but to disable the cameras entirely.

The way I thought we could define a rule to it is use our events and connect them to a activate/deactivate of the camera.

However, I have not found a way to deactivate a camera as a rule action.

Could you give us a hint on where to look?

Thanks

-- Thomas

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There’s a default rule called “Default Start Feed Rule” which is responsible for pulling the default stream from all cameras, all the time. Then the “Default Record on Motion Rule” is responsible for recording when motion is detected.

So you probably want to modify/replace the Default Start Feed Rule with an alternate rule to decide which cameras to pull a live feed from all the time and which cameras to pull a live feed from under some other circumstance (like an “armed” event from an alarm system?).

This isn’t strictly MIP SDK related, but it could be if you wanted to make your own rule events/actions to be used when building rules.