API to enable/disable Mobile App Notifications per Camera

[jtsoi]

Background
We are setting up a small system with 4 cameras for a small office.
The working hours are flexible, and are not on a fixed schedule.
Some days staff are working from home, so there is no one in the office.
The system is setup with Axis Camera Station Edge.

What we are looking for
We would like to be able to programmatically enable and disable the mobile
app notifications. The way that can be done manually via the Axis Camera Station Edge Desktop Application. (preferably over some API or MQTT)
So that this can be connected to the alarm system or some IoT physical button.

A sort of "arm/disarm" mobile app notifications.

Alternatively enable or disable an event schedule, that would achieve the same effect.

Notes

• After digging, it looks like the Axis Camera Station Edge Application configures the camera settings
  when a camera has mobile app notifications enabled/disabled.
• Looking at the camera logs, when notifications are enabled in the Axis Camera Station Edge Desktop Application, a local RTSP stream is setup for motion events, and I assume when an event occurs the camera performs a secure API call to the AXIS servers that then notify the Mobile App via Push notifications.
• Access to this API would solve our problem, as we can then enable app notifications
  per camera. Per camera configuration would actually allow us to alert us when we get visitors,
  as some cameras can have notifications enabled, while others are disabled.
• It looks like an "site controller" API is being used for this. If this API is not documented, can we get a sample request to enable disable this "service"?

Warm regards,
/JT

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[vivekatoffice]

Hi @jtsoi ,
To the best of my knowledge, there are currently no public APIs available for AXIS Camera Station Edge now.

You may explore the My Syetems portal for APIs but I guess it is using either Axis Cloud Connect or Axis Secure Remote Access internally 😄

As you have only 4 cameras to control you can use VAPIX APIs to STOP and START ACAPs running on individual cameras: