Once I figured it out its great. I use it for all sorts of notifications. For example I have a remote alarm arm task. When I use it, AutoVera watches for the actual arm indication on Vera and when the exit delay is done AutoVera generates a confirmation that the alarm actually armed. The confirmation is only created on the phone that requested the alarm arm state. If the alarm is armed from the control panel or my wife’s phone mine does not create the confirmation.
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I nearly forgot to mention. If your TV has a Vera plugin that allows you to change the source input, you can change to whatever input you have a Chromecast plugged into and then use AutoCast to display relevant information on the TV like which smoke/CO detector in your house detected smoke or CO.[/quote]
Does anyone know if the input selection on newer Vizio units can be controlled from Vera, via uPnP for example
Does anyone know if the input selection on newer Vizio units can be controlled from Vera, via uPnP for example
It doesn’t look like the DLNA/UPnP plugin can change inputs, but it would allow you to control media being played on your Vizio via DLNA. I use a Google TV STB with IR blasters built in to control my home theater with Tasker. At $99, it’s not the most affordable solution but it is certainly more versatile than just adding IR control to Vera. The STB itself can run AutoVera, giving you an always on, always connected Android device that can manage a household of individualized automation, similar to what EarlyMorningHours described in his post.
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Does anyone know if the input selection on newer Vizio units can be controlled from Vera, via uPnP for example
It doesn’t look like the DLNA/UPnP plugin can change inputs, but it would allow you to control media being played on your Vizio via DLNA. I use a Google TV STB with IR blasters built in to control my home theater with Tasker. At $99, it’s not the most affordable solution but it is certainly more versatile than just adding IR control to Vera. The STB itself can run AutoVera, giving you an always on, always connected Android device that can manage a household of individualized automation, similar to what EarlyMorningHours described in his post.[/quote]
Thanks, I couldn’t find anything but i was hopeful I had just missed it. I have my video surveillance system connected to one of the inputs and I’d like to have Vera force a switch to it when it detects motion on an outside camera. Another solution I guess 
BTW, congratulations on AutoVera, once I figured it out works great …
Thanks!
You mentioned you already have another solution you’re trying to adapt, but I can make an alternative suggestion. With Chromecast and AutoCast you can send most IP camera feeds to Chromecast. Chromecast, whenever its initiated, will turn on your TV on, if it’s off, and also change inputs to the Chromecast. This relies on HDMI-CEC, which I’m sure your TV has enabled.
You can then use any AutoVera Status Update to initiate the casting of your camera feed, which will turn on your TV and immediately begin casting your camera feed. You can add alerts and even spoken messages to wake you up, for example.
I’m not sure whether your surveillance system offers IP access, but if it does, it may be worth exploring. Can you access your feeds from a web browser? If so, try right-clicking on the feed in-browser and copying the URL. You can then psate that URL in the Image field of a Full Screen Media Element within AutoCast. Let me know if I can help further.
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You mentioned you already have another solution you’re trying to adapt, but I can make an alternative suggestion. With Chromecast and AutoCast you can send most IP camera feeds to Chromecast. Chromecast, whenever its initiated, will turn on your TV on, if it’s off, and also change inputs to the Chromecast. This relies on HDMI-CEC, which I’m sure your TV has enabled.
You can then use any AutoVera Status Update to initiate the casting of your camera feed, which will turn on your TV and immediately begin casting your camera feed. You can add alerts and even spoken messages to wake you up, for example.
I’m not sure whether your surveillance system offers IP access, but if it does, it may be worth exploring. Can you access your feeds from a web browser? If so, try right-clicking on the feed in-browser and copying the URL. You can then psate that URL in the Image field of a Full Screen Media Element within AutoCast. Let me know if I can help further.[/quote]
Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that. I’m using Blue Iris so yes I have access to the camera output. I’ll have to dig into this as a solution.
John
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There is a chance that the HDMI Input Selector is CEC enabled itself, which means it would potentially work. Most AV Receivers with HDMI are CEC enabled, so when you turn Cast to Chromecast, both your TV and Receiver will turn on, and the inputs will change on both your TV and receiver.
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My Vizio 3D “TV” does support CEC, there is a selection for detecting CEC Devices in the setup. But I don’t have any CEC enabled devices attached right now.
So I’m trying to sort out in my head how one would effect this. I have Blue Iriis running on a ZBox PC connected over HDMI to one of the HDMI ports of the Vizio. So what collection of hardware/software would I need to get the Blue Iris box to switch the Vizio port to BI when one of the cameras detects motion? Right now I don’t see how that happens.
Unfortunately, you can’t do it with your existing setup. Most HDMI ports with PC video cards don’t support the HDMI-CEC standard, and even if you had a rare one which did, BlueIris would need the ability to send a signal to your tv via HDMI-CEC. You can solve the former problem with something like this: Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter Review, but for the latter issue, as far as I know, Blue Iris does not do this yet.
Alternatively, you could, as dkc has suggested, use a combination of chromecast, your android device with Tasker/Autovera, and Blue Iris to try and accomplish this. It would work, although it might be quite convoluted. Luckily, a chromecast is affordable so it wouldn’t cost too much to play around with the setup.
Just off the top of my head, it would look something like this:
[ul][li]In Vera, install the virtual switch plugin.[/li]
[li]Create a virtual switch device to act as a motion detector for your camera.[/li]
[li]Setup blueiris to flip the ‘motion detector’ you just created on and off when motion is detected. Sample instructions here: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,22424.msg165041.html#msg165041 (I used a light switch in this example, but the principle is the same)[/li]
[li]Setup Tasker and Autovera on your phone or tablet. Create a profile to cast a stream from blueiris to chromecast when your motion detector in vera is tripped.[/li]
[li]Assuming your HDMI-CEC setup is configured on your TV, the chromecast will automatically turn on your tv, switch to the right input, and play your stream as soon as it receives the signal.[/li][/ul]
Good luck!
Thanks, definitely messy
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Yup. Good point. The chromecast does come with an AC adapter though, which is nice (at least mine had one in the box, i assume they all do?).