@John_Williamson Yeah you’ll find Blue Iris works great for what you need then. The NVR works great with the app for looking at the cams on my phone or directly off the NVR at the monitor it’s connected to or via IP.
I did 2-3 trials as I wanted to verify I liked it before shelling out the money for it. I bought the license last week.
For me my coding per camera is this:
http://192.168.3.x:800x/mjpg/Cam3
Just substitute your IP and port and whatever short name you give it in BlueIris. And the resources for having 1 cam up all the time will be so small compared to all of them.
@Jason_Clemens Thanks again. I’ve just e mailed support and asked for an extension to the trial. As usual I was quick to download and install a trial then didn’t spend the time to test it properly before it expired.
Hey guys! I’ve had an Alexa Echo Dot, plug, Sonos Speaker, TV, Xbox and a Phillips HUE light for a couple years now but never got into SmartThings or SharpTools until today!
Sorry for my noobness but I’d like to eventually turn my whole house into a smarthome with cool looking dashboards like everyone here. My next device will probably be a ceiling fan for my room.
My questions are: What devices can use this ‘‘dashboard’’ ? I don’t have a tablet or anything yet but I do have a decent windows gaming PC with multi monitors. Can I get it on that for now? Is there an install guide?
I’m assuming you can color the tiles and everything too? If so, what about the Android mobile version? I downloaded it today mainly for easy access and to get widgets on one of my home screens but I can’t figure out how to change the widget colors on them. I’m assuming that’s the same thing as tile colors? Essentially they are tiled like I’ve seen in these dashboard pics.
@rog889 I can tell you that it won’t be much. My BlueIris that’s running a dozen cams through it is using 8mb locally on the LAN so 1 cam would be less than 1mb. You can dial it into what ever settings you want, it depends on if you are using Main Streams, Substreams, codec, video size etc. But it really isn’t much. But mine is all internal and not put out to the outside world.
@SmarteePants, welcome to the community. SharpTools Dashboard is a web app, and you can run the dashboards in any modern browsers, such as Chrome and Safari, on your PC, Mac, Android or iOS devices. So you can absolutely start creating your dashboards on your PC, and there is no need to install anything on your PC. I often times have a small browser window opened running my Office dashboard when I am on my 34" monitor to give me quick control/overview of my stuff.
Yes, there are lots of customization flexibilities when designing a dashboard and you may want to check out Themes & Styles feature first so you can take full advantages of it.
The “SharpTools Tasker Plugin & Widgets for SmartThings” Android app is specially designed for Tasker and widget integration, and is different than SharpTools.io (Dashboard & Rule Engine).
Please note that you can also add your SharpTools dashboards on to your mobile devices’ home screen so they be opened like a native apps. See below for details:
The tile in your first pic which shows your location and weather in said location…how do you do that…do you have to have another piece of equipment…I’ve read on here about doing something in smarthings…
my set u is fairly basic, only have life and hue lights no additional smrtthings router… I just have the android app on my phone…
No, just the app and samsung account
I primarily use Smarthings for my Security system - converted an old Wired system to a Smart’ system by panel called Konnected - it’s pretty popular in UK too
So I have links to other dashboard with all my door/window sensors and another for my various Lighting Controls
Wow! Less than 1mb! Is there any documentation or tips web page on how to achieve this? I have been struggling to get BlueIris to take my Hikvision H.264 feeds and convert to MJEPG under 50Mbps per camera. H.264 is a very effective video compression. In Hikvision, my H.264 1080p stream is normally 11Mbps. I read somewhere online that bandwidth consumption is the biggest drawback for MJPEG conversion. I would really appreciate if you can show me some tricks to trim the MJPEG stream down to 1Mpbs, it would help reduce the sluggish performance on my Amazon Fire 10 tablets. I would even be pleased if each MJPEG stream is under 5Mbps.
Im very much new to all this and just learning…at the moment I have life and Philips hue light bulbs and a eufy doorbell…I think I might try pick up a SmartThings Hub and then look into a thermostat, door sensors etc…
Hi Carlos - I don’t have a physical Hub either!
All the devices I use can connect to Smarthings via the linked skill (for the most part except for my Tuya Switches which require a convoluted virtual switch arrangement) In fact I purposely try to avoid having to use devices which require the hub. Shelly devices are great, those are a simple integration as are TPLink/Kasa Switches - I wasn’t sure about the Shelly Door/Window wireless sensors initially as they were problematic to set up but fine now. Even my plug n play bulbs work directly without a hub.
I can even put my Nest Thermostats in there too but annoyingly, even though in SmartThings, they won’t port over to Sharptools yet (Google issue, not Sharp issue)
Add a device and select ‘by brand’ then just follow it from there - it will give you instruction to link the the cloud account for the brand you have purchased. Shelly devices are awesome - have you checked those out? The Relay series are tiny and will fit inside a normal switch box. https://shop.shelly.cloud
See the separate thread on here on Tuya devices - what is odd is that some will work directly and some won’t. (If I knew before what I know now, I would have bought Kasa/TPLInk wall switches instead of the Treatlife (Tuya) switches.
But even those that don’t, you can create Virtual Switches in SmartThings, let Alexa discover them and set up automations in Alexa to link the virtual Switch and the actual switch. So you still don’t need a hub.
But many many devices don’t even need that and will link directly without requiring a virtual switch
@rog889 So I need to correct and walkback my statement a bit. My Hikvision cams aren’t on my main page because of the basis of wanting to have a page to go see all of them. My 8Mbps network usage that I said is what BlueIris uses when the cameras aren’t displayed. It jumps up to like 64Mbps (8Mbps per) network usage when the 8 cameras are on the external cams dashboard. That’s me streaming them at 720p. If I drop it down to 480p it would drop to like 32Mbps or about (4Mbps). I truly don’t care to see 1080p on my dashboard. It’s more to quickly see what’s going on either outside or in the house. That’s what we have the Hikvision NVR for the high quality. That being said since it’s just internal we use the 720p as our house wifi has 200mb down so no issue.
