Web Hooks - How do I configure them ?

[mr.Magoo]

Is there a trick to using these ?
I've set up a very basic one, initially with the tags but I skipped them to reduce complexity.
The same basic URL that works just fine in chrome/explorer does not work in SH.

Anyone had any success setting them up ? (would be nice to have a "TEST" button as well).

Webhooks are a new feature of V6 RC1

[cwizard]

Yes, I have them set up. You can see evidence of this here: https://gyazo.com/3a2b8bd2e9c4aa14a3a6ac8478127221

You should join our new Sighthound Community discord, I would be able to help you pretty quickly there.

https://discord.gg/au2Z2E2

In Discord if you want to test this you can make a Discord server for your personal use, then go and configure a channel for your notifications. You go to the webhook section and it will let you set that up, and give you a URL. This is the URL you plug into Sighthound but you also have to form the JSON correctly:

In this case I am overriding the Discord username of the bot, there are several options which I will reference after this example

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{
    "username": "CAMERANAME",
    "content": "Activity on CAMERANAME",
    "embeds": [{
    "title": "View Online",
    "url": "https://yourIPorDOMAIN.com:8848/#/clips/CAMERANAME/RULENAME"
     }]
}

Reference:

https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/ ... es/webhook
https://birdie0.github.io/discord-webho ... mbeds.html
https://birdie0.github.io/discord-webho ... /file.html

For other services you will format them according to their instructions, this is specifically for Discord.

Also the thing can't be sent as text, send it as Application/JSON

[mr.Magoo]

I appreciate the input...


I'm using Node-Red and it's HTTP inputs and I can easily trigger them through a standard browser, but I see nothing from SightHound.

Short of setting up a wireshark log I don't even know if the event is triggered (which is why it would have been nice to have a test button).

[cwizard]

I have no idea how node-red works, I'll see if I can get to the point where it's giving me a webhook URL for something =D

[cwizard]

Are you using this: https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red ... bhookrelay

[mr.Magoo]

No, the built in HTTP-IN node.

Figured it out though by setting up a socket node and seeing what came in and SightHound makes a POST request, so once I set things up accordingly it works just fine.

Only nuisance is that they include the string identifiers ' ' on the camera and rule tags but not on the time-stamp (really no need for it on any of them) so parsing it required an extra step but no biggie there.

[universe]

Mr Magoo could you please share your Node-Red flow?

Also, does anyone know if it is possible to send a clip or image? Would love to pass a clip when a rule is triggered via the native iOS app in Home Assistant. That's essentially what I'll try to build using Node-Red if someone else hasn't already figured it out.

Thanks y'all.

[cwizard]

Passing an image is something on their feature request list, they are keen to include this as a feature.

[mr.Magoo]

Mr Magoo could you please share your Node-Red flow?

Sorry about the delay, not checking in too often here....

Below is my flow for capturing a webhook which then broadcasts the event on MQTT and captures a snapshot (triggered on the camera directly as it's not available on SightHound)

The delay is basically a "reset" of the trigger on MQTT since I have it tied in to my home automation.

I also attached a screenshot of the webhook setup.

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[tradewind6050]

I've been trying to find a way to get images from sighthound to my local machine. I ran across your node-red concept and it sounded attainable. That being said...could you help a noob out with the translation of what your nodes are doing? I'm trying to go through them and decipher what you're doing and I can see some of it. What I don't know is if the drive letter designations in some areas are specific to your machine or built off of sighthound paths.

Thanks!