i have a poe system and would like to use my cameras like motion detectors to trigger evens seen forum posts where othes have done this but didnt explain how
looking for a bit of advice
A little convoluted, but it works well. I use the tripwire option on my security system NVR. It is a switch that is activated whenever a custom tripwire is activated. That switch is wired to my Konnected security system, which is a device in Hubitat and webcore. When that tripwire is triggered, it activates the Konnected switch and triggers my webcore pistons. I'm not familiar with Blue Iris, but I suspect that there is a trigger option for motion or similar.
I do this currently. As always, there are multiple ways to skin the cat but here's what I do.
- Create virtual motion detector devices in HE (e.g., Kitchen Person Detector, Backyard Dog Detector)
- In BI, create an alert action from the appropriate camera to fire an http call under certain circumstances that turns the respective motion detector active. I assume you already know that you can use all sorts of AI and non-AI logic via BI to make this alert happen or not happen in fairly sophisticated ways.
- I use Hubitat's built-in Maker API to enable HE to receive these http calls and create the motion Active event
- To trigger the inactive event. you can either have the HE virtual motion device automatically go inactive after a set time (parameter set by the device driver), or use BI to send an Inactive event similar to the above process for Active.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with HE and BI, so the above might be way too high level or way too low level. Feel free to come back with more questions.
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Thanks for posting that. Took about 3 minutes to set up from scratch without needing to install webcore.
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Thanks i should have written sooner i have been crazy busy
I read slme guys doing all this with webcore but was at a loss when i tried to play with it
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