Integrations
Most cameras can email and little else. NVR Bridge takes that, works out what's actually in the frame, and sends it on as something useful — a Slack message, an MQTT publish, an email to whoever should know, or an HTTP request to your own code.
Destinations
Alerts land in the channel as a message with the picture already in it — the camera, the time, what was detected and a link to the event.
Set up: approve the app, pick a channel
To you, or to anyone who should know — a neighbour, a colleague, the person who actually watches the gate. Filtered, readable, with the snapshot.
Set up: add the address, they confirm it
Publish to your own broker — the language Home Assistant, Node-RED and openHAB already speak. Choose the topic, the QoS and the retain flag.
Set up: host, port, credentials — SSH tunnel for LAN-only
Two ways in: publish to the Mosquitto add-on, or fire a webhook automation trigger. The snapshot arrives as a URL you can drop into a notification.
Set up: point MQTT at the add-on, or paste a webhook URL
An HTTP request to anything at all: any method, your own headers, and a body you template with placeholders including per-channel image and GIF links.
Set up: paste a URL, shape the body, hit Test
Anything that accepts an HTTP request, with a body you shape yourself.
How it works
About five minutes · all in a browser
Every camera gets its own private inbound address. Turn on the camera's existing email or FTP alerts and set the recipient to it. No firmware changes, no NVR, no port forwarding, nothing running at home.
A trigger is the filter: this camera, a person rather than a cat, one particular number plate. Detection runs on the snapshot after it's stored, so it never holds up the event itself.
Slack, email, MQTT, a webhook — as many as you want on the one trigger. Hit Test to see the shape before a real event arrives, then watch every delivery get logged with its result.
By brand
Where the email settings hide, and what to fill in, for each brand.
Hikvision
Hanwha Wisenet
TP-Link VIGI
Not listed? Any camera that can send email or upload by FTP works the same way — the brand pages only exist to save you hunting through a menu.
Add a camera, point its email at the address we give you, and watch the first event land. It takes about five minutes.