Feature Request: Amcrest Camera White Light Trigger

[chrisperra]

Just an idea, spitballing it here:
I have an Amcrest camera that has the White Light on it for night vision in color, it would be super awesome if there was a way to trigger the white light either on motion or recording into HKSV. I'm playing with some settings on the Amcrest itself to see if I can have the camera do it without using the AI, but have so far had no luck.

[brianjw]

+1 - I just set up 4 new Amcrest cameras (IP8M-2779EW-AI) and they have the White Lights on them. I'd love to be able to switch this on & off via Homekit. For now, it seems only accessible via the camera GUI.

[GalagaBits]

Same here! @koush, do you think this would be possible to implement as a switch on homekit?

[jtweaver]

I also have a few IP8M-2779EB-AI cameras and they work great in scrypted. This feature is all I'm missing.

[adamkornafeld]

I am new to the NVR game, having just installed cameras over the Thanksgiving weekend. I tested cameras from Amcrest and Reolink. Saw that the Reolink camera plugin "publishes" a button on the Scrypted dashboard to control the floodlight with, whereas the Amcrest does not (yet). I opted to keep the Amcrest camera due to the better configurability as well as the fact that the Reolink forces H.265 in 4K mode.
I'll look into how that button can be added to the Amcrest plugin next. In the meanwhile triggering the functionality is fairly straightforward with code. Here is a gist with python and Node.js implementations.

[adamkornafeld]

Tested it with these firmwares:

V3.000.00AC003.0.R, Build Date: 2022-08-12
V3.000.00AC004.0.R, Build Date: 2022-10-27