Hi Everyone,
I searched high and low for a solution for this while I was recently getting my OpenALPR (Rekor Scout) setup going. A few things about my setup... I've got the $5 month Rekor Scout plan, with the agent running on my local PC. I have the Gymratz LPR Downloader and Viewer working, and Pushover is giving me alerts. I love the fact that I can get push notifications on vehicles that I want to alert on, but there has been some activity in my neighborhood, on a culdesac with very little traffic, that makes me want to alert on every plate that it sees. I want to quickly be able to review each vehicle that goes past for a little while, and know immediately that I got their plate. Unfortunately, Rekor Scout only gives you 6 known plates to give you SMS alerts for, and the Gymratz viewer, which is AWESOME, by the way, only alerts on known plates.
I noticed that if I logged into the webportal for OpenALPR (www.openalpr.com), the configuration menu has an option to create webhooks. Excellent! But... this sends an HTTP POST to a URL that you provide to their system, every time it makes a capture. The problem was that I didn't have a URL to provide it, without setting up a server, or cloud VM, or something of that nature.
I discovered this wonderful (and easy to use) tool called Pipedream (www.pipedream.com), and with this tool, I was able to generate a workflow with pre-coded steps. I made one that gave me a URL to receive the HTTP POSTs from OpenALPR, sends a message as a push notification in Pushover with the license plate, and then ends. In order to get that working, you need to add your pushover API and user keys. I also inserted a step to email the information just for fun and diagnostics too. Pipedream gives you up to 10,000 invocations for free, which is plenty for what I need. If you get a lot more traffic than I have on my street, you probably don't want this feature anyway. I took the URL from Pipedream and plugged it into the OpenALPR webhook configuration.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to figure out how to add the image to the push notification, but for now it's just the plate. But, the beauty here is that I'm finally getting each and every one of them like I wanted! If anyone knows how to get pushover to include the image and is willing to share with me, I would be grateful for that.
Hopefully this helps someone else that has the same challenge!
Echelonff
I searched high and low for a solution for this while I was recently getting my OpenALPR (Rekor Scout) setup going. A few things about my setup... I've got the $5 month Rekor Scout plan, with the agent running on my local PC. I have the Gymratz LPR Downloader and Viewer working, and Pushover is giving me alerts. I love the fact that I can get push notifications on vehicles that I want to alert on, but there has been some activity in my neighborhood, on a culdesac with very little traffic, that makes me want to alert on every plate that it sees. I want to quickly be able to review each vehicle that goes past for a little while, and know immediately that I got their plate. Unfortunately, Rekor Scout only gives you 6 known plates to give you SMS alerts for, and the Gymratz viewer, which is AWESOME, by the way, only alerts on known plates.
I noticed that if I logged into the webportal for OpenALPR (www.openalpr.com), the configuration menu has an option to create webhooks. Excellent! But... this sends an HTTP POST to a URL that you provide to their system, every time it makes a capture. The problem was that I didn't have a URL to provide it, without setting up a server, or cloud VM, or something of that nature.
I discovered this wonderful (and easy to use) tool called Pipedream (www.pipedream.com), and with this tool, I was able to generate a workflow with pre-coded steps. I made one that gave me a URL to receive the HTTP POSTs from OpenALPR, sends a message as a push notification in Pushover with the license plate, and then ends. In order to get that working, you need to add your pushover API and user keys. I also inserted a step to email the information just for fun and diagnostics too. Pipedream gives you up to 10,000 invocations for free, which is plenty for what I need. If you get a lot more traffic than I have on my street, you probably don't want this feature anyway. I took the URL from Pipedream and plugged it into the OpenALPR webhook configuration.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to figure out how to add the image to the push notification, but for now it's just the plate. But, the beauty here is that I'm finally getting each and every one of them like I wanted! If anyone knows how to get pushover to include the image and is willing to share with me, I would be grateful for that.
Hopefully this helps someone else that has the same challenge!
Echelonff
