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.
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All your assumptions are correct! Can you explain what i need to do in BI to trigger something in 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.
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Many thanks.. I've had BI for years and wished I had known about this a long time ago. Time to play now...
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.
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WOW. This is exactly my mission. Thanks! I'll be back.
There is also camect if you don't want to use blue iris. It's fantastic.
Too bad it's rentware.
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.
It looks like the hub is $519.
To purchase, yes.
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.
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I admit, the less time spent fiddling, the better.
Also the amount of cameras it can support is amazing
Couldn’t agree more. I find it to be well worth the price difference.
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Right now I'm looking for instructions for how to get the Camect hub to send a message to Hubitat to turn on some lights. Is this documented?
Anybody ever use the Camect Connect App?
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.
It looks like there are no instructions. There are no technical documents of any kind. Do you know how much detective work it took to even confirm the hub must be connected to a network? Sure, sure, it's common sense. But it needs to be said. ESPECIALLY for this price.
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