3/26/2023 0 Comments Xeoma surveillance softwareIt would be nice if they added the JSON HTTP & Websocket support and gave access to each cameras full information such as last recording time, length, storage location, etc. One thing I would like to do is have it so when one of my doors is opened at home and neither my wife or me are home it would send me the last 10 minutes of recordings (all handled in Node-RED) from the front camera door. Node-RED runs on a Raspberry PI and has a GPIO plugin so they wouldn't have needed to even create that module (you can do a lot more with Node-RED then you can with Xeoma's built in GPIO module so I wouldn't even pay for it). Doing this and creating a Node-RED plugin for it would make it so the user could integrate it with whatever they want. I would really like to see Xeoma add a JSON HTTP API endpoint along with a websocket endpoint so that events and data could be easily accessed (just like how Home Assistant communicates with Node-RED). I think Xeoma could be a big hit with the home automation security market by making their software as open as possible to communicating with other programs for integration. They wouldn't really want to shell out money just for GPIO access (especially when you have to pay per camera). Customers that run Xeoma on a Raspberry PI do it because the device is cheap. With home automation and security being a huge thing lately I think they are shooting themselves in the foot with this. Things like such as GPIO and MQTT support are so easy to implement that paying for them just isn't worth it (I already use the HTTP Request Sender to send MQTT messages via Node-RED). I am totally fine with their more advanced modules such as Face/Emotion/Object Recognition costing more since they actually add a lot of value and insight. Things like MQTT & GPIO should be included without having to pay additional money (they basically are the same thing as the HTTP Request Sender or Application Runner and made me sad when they didn't include it into their software for free). One of the things that does bother me about Xeoma is how they want you to pay for all these little add-on modules (and usually pay per camera). This is one of the areas that Xeoma really shines as well as could use a little work. I didn't really see anything like this from the other apps available. I was even able to setup the software to turn on my driveway lights if motion was detected (by getting motion events into Home Assistant). What interested me the most about this was how you could customize so much about how the security camera works. Xeoma's flow based setup for cameras Node-RED flow It hit all of my checklist items and I was also really interested in the flow based setup that reminds me of Node-RED: It was nice to see a developer not focusing on Windows/Mac only. When I first read about Xeoma I was actually really intrigued. iSpy was pretty decent but access from other devices was non-existent (when I was using it) and it was Windows only. ZoneMinder was okay but the UI was old-school HTML and was very slow to use (especially when searching through the archive). I tried using Blue Iris but it was Windows only so that was a no-go.
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