ANNKE integration
ANNKE cameras can email you when they see something, but they can't call a webhook — so they don't talk to Home Assistant, Slack, or your own code. NVR Bridge sits in between: give the camera an email address, get an HTTP request with the snapshot attached. ANNKE's firmware is close to Hikvision's, so smart-event tags usually survive into the filename and can be filtered on.
{
"camera": "Back gate",
"eventType": "VEHICLE_DETECTION",
"plates": [{ "text": "ABC123", "score": 0.91 }],
"channels": [
{ "channel": "01", "images": ["…/optical.jpg"] }
]
}How it works
Create a camera in NVR Bridge and it gets its own private inbound address, something like k7m2p9@relay.nvrbridge.com.
In the camera's web UI, go to Configuration → Network → Advanced → Email and enable it as a linkage method for your detection rules. Set the recipient to the address above. Use our SMTP server and short password, or your own mail provider — both work.
Choose where events go and what they look like. Send the full JSON event, or a template you write yourself for Slack, Discord or Home Assistant.
Walk past the camera. The event appears on your timeline within seconds and your webhook fires with the snapshot as a link.
What you get
Questions
No. The camera talks to us directly over the internet — the same outbound connection it already uses to send email. Nothing runs on your network.
Any model with email or FTP alert settings, which is effectively all of them. We don't need ONVIF, RTSP or a particular firmware version.
Yes. Each camera address accepts mail from anywhere, so you can point the camera at your own provider and it reaches us over normal mail delivery.
By default the full event as JSON: camera, time, event type, snapshot links, sender network details, and any detected plates or objects. Or write your own body template.
Add a camera, point its email at the address we give you, and watch the first event land. About five minutes, all of it in a browser.
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