hey I was wondering how I can turn off the cameras(make redlight turn red in blue iris) from recording in a certain mode like “Home” during a scene. is this possible. Thanks and sorry in advance if this is a novice ?
you can change profiles in blue iris by adding this to the luup tab of the scene
luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.81:81/admin?profile=2&lock=2&user=USERNAME&pw=PASSWORD”)
just change your ip address, port number, user name, password and profile number you want to change it to. for example you can change your cameras settings in blueiris so on profile 2 they do not record. you will have to un-check secure only in the blue iris web server settings tab
I use the method described by SteveZ. I have five profiles configured: Normal Day, Normal Night, Armed Away (No one is home, entry delay is enabled), Armed Instant (House is occupied at night, alarm sounds instantly) and Alarm Violated.
The cameras in private areas of the house, bedrooms, family room, are disabled in all profiles EXCEPT Armed Away and Alarm violated. All other cameras are enabled in all profiles. The profile is selected by the DSC alarm interface, when the alarm is armed or violated VERA will send the profile command to BI to set the appropriate profile.
This is cool… but am wondering if you can set it so that the camera stops capturing video… What I mean is, it’s one thing to stop having blue iris record or not the video. But I have my camera set up in vera too. I’d like to have them stop there as well. Is that possible?
I understand your privacy concerns, as I have a few cameras that I like to keep offline unless no one is home. To do so I have connected the power supplies of those cameras to Aeotec smart switches (any appliance module will do) and energize them only as needed.
Crude but very effective.
It is true that the camera is still active locally even though it is disabled in Blue Iris (my cameras are visible in Vera but only via the Blue Iris Plug In). If your cameras are poweed locally as big Moose notes you can power them off, I can’t because most of my cameras are PoE. In my case I can and do mask off certain areas at the camera so no video is processed in the mask (in a few cases I do this also to prevent the motion detection from tripping when ceiling fans are running) Best thing you can do in general is ensure that there is no path into the LAN from outside, other than to the Blue Iris web interface, put the cameras on a different subnet, etc. Nothing is perfect however.