The integration with OWS OpenEye sends ALPR results from Stream over to OWS OpenEye as events. You can then customize the events received in OpenEye based on various parameters such as timeframe, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
Step 1.1 From the top menu, go to Management > Locations > Locations.
Step 1.2 After loading, navigate to the location where the camera is present in the side menu.
Step 1.3 When selecting the location, as shown in the image, click on the camera button and capture the “camera external ID” information. This information will be necessary for the integration setup.
Step 2.1 From the top menu, go to Management > Integrations.
Step 2.2 Click on “ADD NEW Integration” and select the integration type “Event Receiver API (Analytics)”.
Step 2.3 In the side menu “API Access Keys”, create new keys by clicking on ADD KEY. Define a name for your key, e.g., “Platerec”, and save the Secret Key value. Note that this information is only shown at this point in the tutorial.
Step 2.4 After creation, verify that your key pair has been created. Also, store the information found in API Access Key. Both keys are required for communication with the API.
Step 3.1 Go to the top menu Alerts > Alert Rules.
Step 3.2 Add a new rule by clicking on “ADD new Rule”.
Step 3.3 In the modal that appears, select the alert type “License Plate”. Proceed, define a name and description, and click Create.
Step 3.4 In the rule settings under “Rule Definition” submenu, define the rules for capturing plates. For a general setup, use * to capture all plates.
Step 3.4 In the rule settings under “Rule Definition” submenu, define the rules for capturing plates. For a general setup, use * to capture all plates.
Step 3.5 Make sure to select Active Alert and Send to Alert Feed.
Step 3.6 Select Cameras from the side menu and add the cameras that were selected in the first step of this tutorial. You can create a single alert for multiple cameras, according to your needs.
The integrator acts as a middleware for capturing detections from the Stream and sending them to OpenEye.
Step 4.1 Create a .env file in a folder of your choice and add the variables below:
MIDDLEWARE_NAME=openeyeAKI_TOKEN=AKS_TOKEN=
The AKI_TOKEN parameter should contain the value obtained from the API Access Keys, and the AKS_TOKEN parameter should contain the value of the Secret Key generated in the previous step.
Step 4.2 Run the Docker command to start the Stream_Gateway. The command must be executed in the terminal in the same location where the .env file was created.
docker run -it --env-file .env -p 8002:8002 platerecognizer/stream-gateway
This command will run the middleware on port 8002, exposing it to receive webhook data.
For details on setting up and configuring Stream, please refer to our Stream Guides.
Step 6.1 In the Stream config.ini file, set the Camera-ID equal to the Camera External_ID parameter provided by OpenEye.
Step 6.2 Configure a new webhook with the host and port of your webhook obtained in the previous step.
Step 6.3 Add the name of the new webhook to the webhook_targets parameter. In the screenshot example on the right, the created webhook is named “openeye.”.
Step 6.4 Restart Stream.
Great! You can now configure and integration OWS OpenEye with Stream for monitoring and event forwarding.
Step 7.1 See ALPR results within Alerts Search page of OWS.
Step 7.2 See ALPR results in Video Search and watch video.
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