Leverage Meraki new camera API and MQTT capability to create a notification service. When the camera detects a person consistently appears in a particular zone the service will send a Webex team message to a Webex team room with a video link which will directly go to the video footage when that even occurred. This is useful for alerting unexpected person movement in off-hours.
Camera API: Returns video link for the specified camera. If a timestamp supplied, it links to that time.
- Go to Cameras > [Camera Name] > Settings > Sense page.
- Click Add or edit MQTT Brokers > New MQTT Broker and add you broker information. For testing/trial you can find public broker at here.
- You can install MQTT.fx to subscribe to MQTT broker. This is a very useful tool
General API and MQTT configurations
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| MQTT_SERVER | MQTT Broker ip or domain |
| MQTT_PORT | MQTT Broker port |
| MQTT_TOPIC | Meraki Camera mqtt top, default is "/merakimv/#" |
| MERAKI_API_KEY | Meraki Api key |
| NETWORK_ID | Camera's network ID, will use this get video link with camera api |
| COLLECT_CAMERAS_SERIAL_NUMBERS | Array of cameras serial numbers, all is *. |
| COLLECT_ZONE_IDS | Array of zone id, all is * |
Motion detected configurations, you can keep this as it.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| MOTION_ALERT_PEOPLE_COUNT_THRESHOLD | The threshold of people count from the camera to start the detection mode |
| MOTION_ALERT_ITERATE_COUNT | The iterate count when in the detection mode |
| MOTION_ALERT_TRIGGER_PEOPLE_COUNT | After threshold of people count after iteration to trigger the alert or not |
| MOTION_ALERT_PAUSE_TIME | The pause time after alert is triggered |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| WEBEXTEAMKEY | The Webex team API key |
| ROOM_ID | The Webex team room ID |
- Run
python3 install -r requirement.txt - Run
python3 app.py
Build : docker build -t meraki-camera-notification .
Run : docker run -it meraki-camera-notification .
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