Thanks for the guide!
I've been running Blue Iris for years but just sort of set it and forgot it (with a few automations ) so this finally got me to go back and give it a bit of a play.
Running the wizard failed for me as I don't have any open ports, but using the Local Webserver URL works fine.
And tbh the Genbolt jpg URL is a pita as it needs to be authorized regularly, so this is much better.
Thanks again.
One other thing, for completeness, the thing that got me, back when I first started with HE. Setting up your Hubitat dashboard, this is for an Image template, not a Video Player template.
I hear ya, I set my blue iris up so long ago, I couldn't even reply to @user3340 till I went to my windows computer and figured out what was going on in blue iris. I am not sure who the HE user was that pointed out you simply need to append the local address with /mjpg/nameofcamera?fps=3 to get a camera feed that integrats nicely with HE, but I thank whoever it was all those years ago.
@user3340, as @Ranchitat pointed out above you probably don't need to have the blue iris remote access wizard be successful, you just need to know the local address and the port number.
perfect I now have images but not sure how to use automation with the camera views.
Anyway to trigger on the images them selves or is it only by using e,g a motion sensor.
I assume, since you posted in this thread, you are using Blue Iris and that Blue Iris and Hubitat are both running on your local network. If this is the case, you can have the Blue Iris software detect motion in the camera's field of view, you can also have Blue Iris send a local endpoint trigger to HE, when this motion happens. This, in effect, turns motion in the camera's field of view into a motion sensor in your HE.
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.
To be clear, you do not need any third party app (Event Engine or Blue Iris Control), to accomplish this. Third party apps can give you even more integration between Blue Iris and HE, but they are NOT required to have Blue Iris recognize motion in a camera's field of view and send a local endpoint trigger to Hubitat. This in effect makes your ip camera into an HE motion sensor. No third party app required for this.
@Ranchitat provided good instructions for how to do this in Rule Machine. All you need is Blue Iris running on a windows computer and Rule Machine running on a Hubitat. If these two devices are on the same local network, the communication between the two is simply with a local endpoint trigger. There is no need to install any third party app.
It's not. I don't pay a subscription and I get everything on it including remote viewing. Everything is 100% local. What costs is if you want to have cloud access. I just use a vpn.
Presumably they factor in the value of their local AI processing into the per-unit cost of the device, which does not require any subscriptions for local access.
You can also accomplish something similar with Blue Iris and Deepstack, at much less cost. But you’ll spend more time setting it up and tuning the AI.
Having tried both, I don’t regret purchasing a Camect hub at all.
I do.... SImply pull the attribute (motion and what that motion is... skunk, deer, person, car etc) and send it to your notification device.... "Skunk moving on %device%" and then turn backyard lights on, maybe the rachio controller.
