SecuritySpy to iMessage Trigger

Hi There,
I'm new to security spy, and have installed my first camera (a Hikvision).
I have the latest version of Security Spy installed on my Mac (same one running indigo) and I have configured it to record on motion.

What I can't figure out is how to create a trigger in Indigo to send me an iMessage with a photo or video of the camera.

Something like, if house is empty and doorbell is pushed - send iMessage with CCTV snapshot attached.

After a bit more searching I can see that I can pull the image via the url for a control page:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/Streaming/channels/1/picture

Just wondering if this feature was built into this plugin at all before I look down the route of how I download this image and then attach it to an iMessage somehow?

Look at the preference settings in the security spy you can setup an email account and than security spy will send
4 pics of the video feed with motion or by an action in indigo. Using the motion does tend to send a lot of false trigers
due to changes in lighting with outside cameras.

Elwood

Yeah - but that's why I wanted to use Indigo to do the messaging side of things - because then I can specify only to send me a picture when the doorbell is pushed / house is empty

I have a trigger in indigo that fires when my delivery door is opened.
with an action of Trigger Recording of device "front door camera"

Here is todays delivery

Elwood

Sending an email or a text is fairly easy. But I don't know of any way to send an iMessage from Indigo.

Break it down into two parts - first get the trigger working the way you want, even if it doesn't actually do anything. Then work on getting the notification you want.

I haven't done a ton with Applescript, but I had this code snippet in my archive:

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tell application "Messages"
   send "This is an SMS" to buddy "+1234567890" of service "SMS"
end tell

If I recall, you can't iMessage yourself at an email alias, but you can iMessage yourself to a phone number alias (I just tested it.) I also believe that (to work as written) iMessage needs to be running--but I'm not positive of that last bit.

Dave

Hey,

I use the following AppleScript code to take a picture from the camera and then send it via iMessage if it helps you

set garage_pic to "/Users/admin/Downloads/garage.jpg"
tell application "SecuritySpy"
capture image camera name "Garage" as garage_pic with overwrite
end tell

tell application "Messages"
set DestFile to POSIX file "/Users/admin/Downloads/garage.jpg"
send file DestFile to buddy "User"
end tell

Perfect, thanks @peteinau

For the others on here, yep you can iMessage yourself. I have my Mac Mini running with a separate iCloud account.