Add an mqtt subcommand

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

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Depends on #203

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This PR adds an mqtt subcommand.

This will allow neolink to connect to an mqtt server.

• Neolink will post motion detection message to the server as
• neolink/camname/status/motion: on/off

neolink mqtt --config=config.toml

• Neolink will listen for the following commands

  • neolink/camname/control/led: on/off
  • neolink/camname/control/ir: on/off/auto
  • neolink/camname/control/reboot: <message value ignored>

[petergam]

@QuantumEntangledAndy What is missing for this one?

Would love to have motion detection events in Home Assistant over MQTT.

Can I somehow help testing this?

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

@petergp Motion detection from #203 should be merged first, there nothing particularly stopping it from getting merged per say, I think it is just not always having the time to work on it around the dayjobs etc

[ytzelf]

Hi, Coming from https://github.com/thirtythreeforty/neolink/issues/260 Could it be possible to add camera manipulation endpoint in addition to motion detection? for example /camera1/streaming/start /camera1/streaming/stop /camera1/motion-streaming/start (if/when on-motion streaming is merged) /camera1/motion-streaming/stop (if/when on-motion streaming is merged) /camera1/battery

Thanks a lot!

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

Some of those request don't work with the current design. We cannot for example stop streaming as neolink rtsp and neolink mqtt kinda act separately. Mqtt just serves as a command and control to the camera. Where as starting and stopping the stream would means starting and stopping the client.

To get it to work like your suggestion would mean a redesign of how the two are incorporated.

The battery would be possible but since I don't own a battery camera I cannot reverse engineer those messages and have little drive to do so.

You are however more than welcome to write up a PR of your own and I will help where I can.

[QuantumEntangledAndy]

With no progress on my PRs in years I am closing them in favour of working on my own fork. If your interested in these features please see there