GaryOkie

Rob's amcrest2mqtt addon installed easily and is working fine for me... (installed on RasPi4).

While I greatly appreciated having amcrest2mqtt supported as an add-on initially, I'm no longer using it. If the only thing you are using MQTT for is to fetch events from...

The purpose of amcrest2mqtt was to expose all amcrest/dahua events since the camera integrations did not have this support built in. Now they do. My point was that you can...

Sure - not just "AI Data", but just like amcrest2mqtt, the HASS Amcrest and Dahua integrations enable ALL events. This definitely includes AD410 human motion events. See https://community.home-assistant.io/t/amcrest-video-doorbell-ad110-initial-impressions/171290/301?u=garyokie for examples....

You're absolutely right briodan - the docs for both integrations don't provide much detail at all on how to set up event triggers. Much of this info had to be...

@mr-ransel - I actually agree with you that this was not an appropriate place to provide awareness of alternative event handling. I've regretted making these posts here. My apologies to...

ok, thanks. I thought it seemed like an obviously useful feature to not have been already included with all the other very useful shortcuts.

The "execute shell command" (href=#modal_exec_command) already provides a nice way to display responses from the executed command. I tried to run _hassio homeassistant check_ as a shell command but it...

completely understood. Thanks for the explanation!

+1 to the OP for selecting the NVR channel as an option in Home Assistant. I will also submit a feature request to the Home Assistant Amcrest github asking for...