[Event] Send email at specific time each day with photo attached

[minth1]

I've figured out how to send motion events with photo via email and tested the email configuration settings. But I'm not seeing an option to achieve what I'm wanting. I would like 5 cameras attached to the NVR, to send a photo via email at 11:00pm every day. One post I found elsewhere said to use the "alarm input" event function. They recommended setting alarm input to NC and schedule for 1 minute interval around 11:00pm Below is the settings I'm using but not able to trigger the email with them.

• DS-2CD2165G0-I
  • firmware V5.6.2 build 190701
• DS-2CD2683G1-IZS
  • firmware V5.6.6 build 210625

NVR:

• DS-96128NI-I24 / H
  • V4.51.127 build 220831

 

[trempa92]

Im not sure about email, but with FTP it works.

For FTP you have Capture interval time and u set it at 11PM to trigger every 24hours. It will be uploaded to FTP server.





Or make a small service that will run somewhere on your server.

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;

public class CameraService
{
    private string[] cameraIps = { "192.168.1.1", "192.168.1.2" }; / Add all camera IPs here
    private const string Endpoint = "/ISAPI/Streaming/channels/101/picture";
    private const int Port = 80;
    private const string Username = "yourUsername";
    private const string Password = "yourPassword";
    private const string EmailTo = "example@email.com";

    public async Task CaptureAndSendImages()
    {
        var images = await CaptureCameraImages();

        SendEmail(images);
    }

    private async Task<byte[][]> CaptureCameraImages()
    {
        byte[][] images = new byte[cameraIps.Length][];

        for (int i = 0; i < cameraIps.Length; i++)
        {
            var url = $"http://{cameraIps[i]}:{Port}{Endpoint}";

            CredentialCache credentialCache = new CredentialCache();
            credentialCache.Add(new Uri(url), "Digest", new NetworkCredential(Username, Password));

            using var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
            {
                Credentials = credentialCache
            };

            using var httpClient = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler);
            httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

            var response = await httpClient.GetAsync(url);
           
            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                images[i] = await response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();
            }
            else
            {
                / Handle failure to get an image, maybe log an error or throw an exception
            }
        }

        return images;
    }

    private void SendEmail(byte[][] images)
    {
        MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
        mail.From = new MailAddress("youremail@example.com");
        mail.To.Add(EmailTo);
        mail.Subject = "Camera Images";
        mail.Body = "Attached are the camera images.";

        for (int i = 0; i < images.Length; i++)
        {
            var stream = new MemoryStream(images[i]);
            mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(stream, $"camera_{i}.jpg"));
        }

        SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient("your.smtp.server");
        smtpClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
        smtpClient.Send(mail);
    }
}

Note: Here is not set to send images at exactly 11, but rather when u run app. Either make a windows Task scheduler or add method that will track time.