Hi I use Tellstick and Switch King to control the light, IR, temp and even the doorbell.
Now I’m curious if I can with a textfile or some other way to make a event in Milestone. For example if someone ring on the doorbell it trigger a event in Milestone to do something like send a image attached to my email address.
Unfortunately I do not know Tellstick. From a 2 minutes look in a description on the internet; maybe the messages it can send can be used as Generic Events in XProtect, if they can you get the full capability to trigger rules in XProtect.
Is there other partner reading this that know more?
I would love to hear more if you get this to work..
hmm maybe can use Generic Events but hard to get it to work
I have find the “GenericEventSendTool” but when I create a Generic Event I can see the “Data Source Compatible” is disabled
The Event server is running but don’t know how I can make it enable
Have found the Administator Manual but stuck with the Data source
I wonder if you are missing this page.. In the Management Client, in the top bar do Tools → Options, pick the Generic Events tab (far right), here you enable and configure data sources.
Ahh there it is, thanks alot
But still even if I read the manual and search here and the forum I’m not sure if I have make it right
Right now I have a script that run the GenericEventSendTool
GenericEventSendTool.exe <IP> 1235 Door
In the Generic Events I have one call Door
Data sources I have “International”
Here I have try different type of info but have no idea what to write in “Expression”, “Expression type” or “Check if expression matches event string”
In the Generic Events tap I have enable International, port is 1235, have allow the external IPv4 address from the server where GenericEVentSendTools is.
I have also create a rule name “Door”
Perform an action on Door
from External
Send notification to 'Info'
images and sound from FrontCamera
The idea is to make my script (that I later going to trigger with Tellstick/Switch King) to make Milestone to take pictures and send it to a e-mail address.
If you in expression put “door” and nothing else, and in expression type Search, the generic event will trigger if it get a string containing “door”. This is the simplest type of generic event.
You can use the “Check if expression matches event string” to convince yourself the event will trigger when the string you send has a certain content.
Note this is case sensitive, the above event will not trigger if I send the string “Door” but will trigger if I send “door”.
Ahh thanks, it works 