OpenALPR Webhook Processor for IP Cameras

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Not sure if you are taking suggestions, but something I've asked OpenALPR to add countless times is to let me set rules to highlight certain vehicles. If there were a way to set rules like in Excel, oh lawd.

Paper Plates (Begins with a number here in TX) = RED
Someone I tag as good = GREEN
General reads = WHITE/Unchanged
Car that shows up 6+ times in an hour = RED
Car that has never been seen in the last 60 days = ORANGE
Tagged Police/Security Cars = PURPLE

Also, question. Is there anything from stopping me from adding another camera to get the on screen information?

I have this overview camera, having the plate on THIS shot makes more sense in my use case than the LPR camera

 

[mlapaglia]

the images wont work because they come directly from the watchman agent

 

[mlapaglia]

you can put the overlays on any camera you want

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Awesome, I'm going to give that a shot

 

[mlapaglia]

check out v3.2.0-alpa3 to fix that

 

[biggen]

Yeah I have the overlays pushed to my overview camera and not my LPR cam.

 

[biggen]

check out v3.2.0-alpa3 to fix that

That appears to have fixed it. I'm running without an appsettings.json now.

 

[mlapaglia]

working on searching and date filters now

 

[wittaj]

Sweet! What about maybe an overview page that sums up the plate counts so that you could see at a glance that XYZ plate came in 128 times and ABC plate came in 1 time?

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Are the images being stored in the container data folder, or do they just link back to OpenALPR? Just wondering where I should allocate storage

 

[mlapaglia]

they are stored with the watchman agent

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Does that mean on the $5 plan I'll lose all my old images? Or do they hang around forever in there until they hit the storage quota?

 

[wittaj]

Online they are only stored 5 days on the $5 plan.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

But on the agent they are stored forever? The entire reason I'm running this is to get around the 5 day retention

 

[mlapaglia]

i thought the images are always stored on the agent, no images are moved to the cloud. that's why if the websocket is disabled images stop showing up in the UI.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

That would make sense, because if I reboot the agent, the cloud images don't load

In that case, I sure hope the agent stores them longer than 5 days

 

[mlapaglia]

it probably stores them up until your local agent runs out of allocated space.

 

[wittaj]

I guess I need to bite the bullet and sign up for the trial and give this a shot LOL.

That was why I went with Plate Recognizer initially was that it was images that came from Blue Iris and I could pull the plates from log files for historical purposes.

But without actually trying this application yet, just from what I am reading it appears to possibly be a better system with the modifications that @mlapaglia is making and continues to make!

 

[biggen]

That would make sense, because if I reboot the agent, the cloud images don't load

In that case, I sure hope the agent stores them longer than 5 days

You set the image size allocation on the OpenALPR dashboard under Configuration -> Agents -> Configure. It defaults to 8GB of images. You can increase it to whatever you want so long as you have the storage available.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

I have been adjusting it in the UI, but it seems to sync up as my web page says the same