VIVOTEK + Slack
VIVOTEK cameras can email when they see something, but getting that into a Slack channel — with the picture in the message rather than an attachment nobody opens — is another matter. NVR Bridge sits in between and does the translation. Connect the workspace once, choose a channel, and every alert lands there as a message with the picture already in it — no incoming-webhook URL to copy and no bot token to paste. VIVOTEK's pre- and post-event frames all arrive together on the same event, so you see the run-up rather than one frozen moment.
NVR Bridgeapp21:04
Person at Back gate
View event · Mute this trigger
How it works
Create a camera in NVR Bridge and it gets its own private inbound address, something like k7m2p9@relay.nvrbridge.com. That address is how we know which camera an event came from.
In the camera's web UI, go to Configuration → Applications → Event settings, add an email server, then add an event that uses it. Set the recipient to the address above, and use our SMTP server and short password — or your own mail provider, if you'd rather.
On the Notifications page, click Connect Slack and approve the app for your workspace, then pick the channel. You can connect more than one workspace, and send different triggers to different channels.
Walk past the camera. The event lands on your timeline within seconds and the Slack alert follows. Every delivery is logged with its result, so a failure is something you can read rather than guess at.
What you get
Questions
You need permission to install an app into the workspace. Many workspaces let any member do that; on a locked-down one an admin approves it once, and after that you choose channels yourself.
Yes. A trigger says what matters and a notification says where it goes, so the back gate can post to #security while the driveway posts to #home — from the same account.
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. VIVOTEK's event editor can attach a burst of frames from either side of the trigger, and those arrive here as several snapshots on the one event.
No. The camera talks to us over the same outbound connection it already uses to send email. There's nothing to install on your network and no inbound port to open.
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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