Question: how to switch scene between HOME and AWAY for DCS-6100LH with Alexa?

[Benman2785]

Hi,

so far this camera is nice - yet i havent found a skill to "enable surveilance" or disable it. Easiest way would be a Skill to switch mydlink scenes from "away" to "home" and vice versa - but via Alexa.

can i write an app (one for Linux-root; one for Android) on my own so i dont have to use mydlink? i only need this features:

• installation of Camera (connect to local WiFi, settings etc)
• auto-start recording (15s) after motion detection (server runs vlc and saves incoming rtsp as flv/mp4)
• Privacy-Mode
• live feed (plus screenshot and video recording)
• motion detection and notification via whatsapp with link to mp4 and screenshot
• Alexa features: show Camera (Alexa, show Frontdoor Kamera); Privacy-Mode on/off (Alexa, start/stop surveillance camera)

where do in find documentation for this? :)

[mouldybread]

If it were me I'd just feed the RTSP stream into Frigate & Home Assistant and work from there.

https://frigate.video/ https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki

Edit to add: I don't think you're ever going to get any kind of meaningful 'privacy mode'. Depends what you consider privacy mode but unless you unplug the thing it's always going to be sat there capturing video/audio and connected to the network in one way or another. So if you want to achieve this you could just connect it via a smart socket and turn off the power when you don't want it to be doing stuff.

[Benman2785]

smart socket is an option - thank you :)

[ErikAndren]

Since you can download the source code from Dlink you can in theory build your own appliction.

Unless you can find an existing disitribution to base your work on you are looking at a serious effort.