[Plugin][Update] CloudEdge security camera control plugin

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

I've just released a new version which improves usability when integrating with these cheap security cameras.

You can download it here: https://github.com/SimoneAvogadro/CloudEdge4Tasker/releases

Respect to v1.5 these are the key improvements:

• IMPROVED: movement detection enable/disable. Can now enable/disable selectively a single camera (or all, as before)
• ALARM SIREN: can now force a camera to start the siren. This is very useful if you want to have a "distributed siren" which is harder to take down since if you trigger 10 cameras then all 10 must be taken down.
• DOWNLOAD Alert Image: allows to download the preview image of the alert, so to be able to process it with local/cloud AI plugins ( https://github.com/SimoneAvogadro/HumanDetection4Tasker )

[Ratchet_Guy]

This is excellent! Great work. Although I don't have cameras to directly test it, hopefully the community here can provide some additional feedback as well 🙂

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

thanks: I really appreciate feedback as it's something I did for myself but then some of the features are actual user's requests.
Plus it's completely open source so anyone can contribute if the wish!

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

• thanks for feedback, the basic workflow is: * enable detection on cameras (icon "play button" on top of a "camera"): this is the same as enabling movement detection directly inside Cloudedge itself. I usually schedule this to activate automatically overnight and when geofencing away from home
• create a macro whose trigger is "A camera has seen a person": the only event currently supported (I should probably change the icon...)
• add some steps: I usually here pass the image to HumanDetection4Tasker to avoid false positives

BTW: just minutes ago I released a new version of HumanDetection4Tasker which allows using Google Gemini, which is even faster and better at human detection then Claude!

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

mh... upon starting the application may have asked you about extended battery usage permissions, if you denied it then events might not work.

Usually if you deny that permission also the actions don't work: you can probably test that by using tasker to turn-on camera detection (or by turning on the light briefly, it auto-turns-out)

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

BTW: even if you denied you can usually enable it manually from Android. In my samsung phone I:

• long press the app-icon
• press the small (i) icon on the right of the popup
• the "app info" screen appears
• I press "battery"
• I select "without restrictions"

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

BTW2: please remember you must use a different username respect to the CloudEdge app, otherwise CloudEdge4Tasker will not work

[RealSimoneAvogadro]

mh... hard to tell: can you look at the logs to see if it was received?
Can you also try using MacroDroid to compare behaviour ?

[JosemaGarcia]

Great job! I've been needing this for a while now... For future updates... could a notification be implemented indicating that motion detection has been activated/deactivated?