I use Blue Iris as well and also use Dahua Starlight Cameras.
@jldodge710 Understand that Blue Iris is software that runs on a windows machine it is video security/management software and is independent of the cameras you choose. Almost any POE camera can be managed by Blue Iris. Obviously some cameras are higher quality/better than others. The Dahua Cameras mentioned above work extremely well both day and night, but there are literally 100's if not 1000's of other cameras you can choose from. The Blue Iris software runs independent of HE, but the two play very nice together. The Blue Iris software can detect motion in a cameras field of view and can send HE a motion trigger. Also HE can send Blue Iris a command to change its profile.
Blue Iris also has no problem sending video to my android phone, so when my HE app sends me a notification, on my phone, that the doorbell has been rung. I can quickly open up a camera view to see who is at my door.
If you plan on going the local route without using cameras from one of the cloud based companies (amazon, google, etc...), there are a few other options, but I would think the vast majority of users who go this route run Blue Iris.
Just to be clear, HE (nor its network) does not have the capability to operate security cameras that are not cloud based. HE is not security camera software or hardware. If you want to go local you need to decide the security camera software you will run as well as the local storage space you will need to manage the video security. This post and others in this thread have stated that Blue Iris is the software many people use to fill this need.
You don't need to install any custom apps to have basic communication between Blue Iris and Hubitat. But if you want more than basic communication you can install this custom hubitat app:
