diff --git a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.ipcamera/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/ipcamera/internal/DahuaHandler.java b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.ipcamera/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/ipcamera/internal/DahuaHandler.java
index bc89c8f5793b4..10541ead7e608 100644
--- a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.ipcamera/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/ipcamera/internal/DahuaHandler.java
+++ b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.ipcamera/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/ipcamera/internal/DahuaHandler.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import static org.openhab.binding.ipcamera.internal.IpCameraBindingConstants.*;
 
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNullByDefault;
 import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.Nullable;
@@ -43,14 +44,16 @@
 public class DahuaHandler extends ChannelDuplexHandler {
     private IpCameraHandler ipCameraHandler;
     private int nvrChannel;
+    private Pattern boundaryPattern;
 
     public DahuaHandler(IpCameraHandler handler, int nvrChannel) {
         ipCameraHandler = handler;
         this.nvrChannel = nvrChannel;
+        boundaryPattern = Pattern.compile("^-- ?myboundary$", Pattern.MULTILINE);
     }
 
     private void processEvent(String content) {
-        int startIndex = content.indexOf("Code=", 12) + 5;// skip --myboundary and Code=
+        int startIndex = content.indexOf("Code=") + 5;// skip Code=
         int endIndex = content.indexOf(";", startIndex + 1);
         if (startIndex == -1 || endIndex == -1) {
             ipCameraHandler.logger.debug("Code= not found in Dahua event. Content was:{}", content);
@@ -212,11 +215,12 @@ public void channelRead(@Nullable ChannelHandlerContext ctx, @Nullable Object ms
         }
         try {
             String content = msg.toString();
+            ipCameraHandler.logger.trace("HTTP Result back from camera is \t:{}:", content);
             if (content.startsWith("--myboundary") || content.startsWith("-- myboundary")) {
-                processEvent(content);
+                // the first part of the match before --myboundary is empty, so skip 1
+                boundaryPattern.splitAsStream(content).skip(1).forEach(event -> processEvent(event));
                 return;
             }
-            ipCameraHandler.logger.trace("HTTP Result back from camera is \t:{}:", content);
             // determine if the motion detection is turned on or off.
             if (content.contains("table.MotionDetect[0].Enable=true")) {
                 ipCameraHandler.setChannelState(CHANNEL_ENABLE_MOTION_ALARM, OnOffType.ON);