IP Camera integration

Ranchitat · April 14, 2023, 8:46am

It's been quite a while, and lots of updates, since I used this thread to set up mine, but it should still be pretty much the same procedure to get an alert from Blue Iris into Hubitat.

[Deprecated] BI Control - Local Blue Iris control

BUT... there is a way to receive alerts from Blue Iris just using Rule Machine!
Note: This was written for BI4. If using BI5 results may vary.

In Rule Machine:

'Create New Rule', 'Define a Trigger', 'Name the Trigger'

'Select Trigger Events', 'Select capability' = 'Local End Point'

Note: you will need the 'Local End Point URL' in Blue Iris

'Select Actions' to do whatever you like!

In Blue Iris

Select the Camera to use as a Trigger then 'Right Click' and select 'Camera Properties'.

Select 'Alerts' and then check-off 'Post to a web address...' and then click 'Configure'

Under the heading 'When Triggered', make sure that "Http://" is selected

Then next to that box, put in the 'Local End Point' URL from Hubitat. Note: do not include the Http:// ... just start with the ip address. (ie. 192.168.1.123/apps/api/....)

Click 'OK' and your done!