Camera improvements, schedule, alarm functions and more
it would be great to only have one schedule. Right now i must have a schedule for the camera and one schedule for the cameras alarm.
i do not understand why ? there is two schedules. ?
i want to be able to set all settings in automation schedule, so for example at 23:00 i want to start my outside cameras (disable privacy mode), and when i set that i want the camera to have alarm active. So i do not have to set a separate schedule for the alarm. So when i do settings in automation i can choose to override the cameras alarm schedule, so my automation schedule does everything, (activate camera, activate alarm, activate patrol, activate what ever i want)...
and another thing i would like to be able to set on or off: if one camera detects motion and the alarm starts sounding, then all the active cameras alarm start sounding also.
So if i have 4 cameras outside and they are active, and one camera detects motion and alarm starts sounding, then the other 3 cameras alarm also starts sounding.
An extra feature would be that in my case i have 4 outside cameras and 3 inside cameras. So if i am at home i have only outside cameras active, then i would like to have a function that if any of my outside cameras detects a motion and the alarm starts sounding, one or all my inside cameras starts its alarm also. Now it is not possible without having inside cameras active, so even if a inside camera has privacy mode active it can sound alarm when a camera outside detects a person and alarm starts sounding. But in that case i would like to be able to specify what cameras inside starts sounding alarm when outside camera activates its alarm.
another thing i dicovered is that if i during daytime for example go in to my camera daytime and i do not want the alarm to be active, because i just want to monitor what is happening outside my garage. So i turn off tha alarm. all good i can monitor outside my garage with only notification. good...
But when my automation (schedule) at 23:00 starts all my outside cameras (disable privacy mode) then the camera outside my garage still has alarm off, so the automation do not activate alarm if motion is detected. So if i turn off alarm, then it stays off. not good. The automation should be able to activate camera, activate alarm, activate patrol mode and so on.
And an extra good thing would be in that case that the automation checks what settings the camera has before the automation starts its functions, for example the alarm is off. Then when automation is done 07:00 and privacy mode is activated, the automation sets the settings that was set before automation at 23:00 so if i have disabled alarm then the automation starts and activates the camera and alarm, and when automation is done 07:00 (activate privacy mode) then the alarm setting goes back to off because the setting was off before the automation schedule.