[quote=“Don Phillips, post:7, topic:199281”]How does the QVR know to be in something other than Home Mode (using Vera terminology)?
How does the QVR send notifications to a phone - Pushover or something similar?
What app like VeraMate do you use to both monitor/control Vera devices and monitor the cameras?[/quote]
Look at my other thread… The QVR sends events through REST API to openLuup which then decides whether to send an announcement, trigger the siren or send a notification which, for me is indeed pushover but could be anything, HomeWave push, pushbullet etc…
It does take snapshots and sends emails on it?s own. The motion sensors of the cameras are activated (I.e armed/disarmed) by home assistant which is controlled by openLuup.
QVR can send notifications on its own as well but as you mentioned, would not be aware of your home/away status which is why I have it go through openLuup. I monitor all the cameras through the QVR mobile app. In short, it is the same function as BI without the need of Windows and on a NAS I already have for other purposes. I also connected a few cameras to openLuup directly so it can control the PTZ position of the cams. They are Amcrest and rewrote a big part of the plugin for openLuup but this is extra functionality… as a result, they show up on ALTUI.