Blue Iris security app

I’m using blue iris on a slim pc with my foscams. It works great and has great motion sensing. I’d like to make motion events trigger vera, basically using BI as additional motion sensors.

BI has the following ‘alert’ actions for each camera:

Using this PC:
sound alarm
phone call with telephony modem
run a program or execute a script
set digital output number (this is for an I/O board or arduino I think)

Using the internet:
send an SMS message
send an email message
send push notification to mobile app

What would be the easiest way to let vera know that there was an alert (motion)? any ideas?

You can create a scene in Vera, then trigger it via a simple HTTP request. See http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=2013.0

Thanks. I have the command working.

http://192.168.1.xxx:49451/data_request?id=lu_action&output_format=xml&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=126

How do I make this into a windows file that I can run to execute via BI?

  1. download wget.exe for windows from http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
  2. put it in some folder, say c:\myfolder
  3. create myscene.bat file using notepad with the following code :
c:\myfolder\wget.exe "http://192.168.1.xxx:49451/data_request?id=lu_action&output_format=xml&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=126"
  1. have your software run “myscene.bat” if motion is detected.

HTH.

Thanks! That works perfectly.

Thanks Intrepid and carpjay. I got this working with Vera UI5 and Blue Iris also.

FYI, here’s the link to blue iris…

It runs flawlessly, and the motion sensing is much better than any other app I’ve used. It is rock-solid, runs as a windows service, and the author keeps it up-to-date.

Now all we need is a Vera plugin to allow full 2-way communication.

there’s also a freeware software that turns webcams into motion detectors:
http://www.yawcam.com/
seems to work in a similar fashion …

Has anyone gotten Blue Iris to register with vera? So far my attempts at determining the snapshot.jpg url have not been successful.

rearden

Hello! I’m running an IP camera with Blue Iris as well and would like to trigger a simple Vera Scene. My computer knowledge is more limited than many of you, however; after reading this linked thread a couple of times I’m still lost :-\

Would it be possible for you to walk me (as well as future newbies reading this thread) through the steps of what you did with your Blue Iris/Vera setup to trigger a scene based on Blue Iris-detected motion?

I’d really appreciate it…thanks for your time

To add blue iris cameras to a foscam vera device, do this:

Install foscam plugin, create device, set IP to your BI server including port.

for URL: /image/cam1

(I’m pretty sure you must use the short name here…usually cam1, cam2, etc).

for directstreamingurl: /mjpg/cam1/video.mjpg

This works well, allowing you to see the BI stream with the text/time overlay. You do not get control of PTZ, however. I guess that will require a proper plugin.

Is anyone working on a BlueIris App for Vera that will do Video, Audio, PTZ? I would prefer to keep one connection from the camera’s (Foscam Wireless FI8910W) to BlueIris on my network and have Vera get the video from BlueIris and my wife and myself will get the video from Vera under normal usage and BlueIris when pulling up recordings. BlueIris sends PTZ commands to the cameras now so there should be some way to access Presets and PTZ commands.

~Chris

[quote=“Chris H., post:12, topic:171346”]Is anyone working on a BlueIris App for Vera that will do Video, Audio, PTZ? I would prefer to keep one connection from the camera’s (Foscam Wireless FI8910W) to BlueIris on my network and have Vera get the video from BlueIris and my wife and myself will get the video from Vera under normal usage and BlueIris when pulling up recordings. BlueIris sends PTZ commands to the cameras now so there should be some way to access Presets and PTZ commands.

~Chris[/quote]

Blue Iris now has an app for IOS that provides access the the various cameras and alerts.

Don

I have the BlueIris app on my iPhone and iPad and love it, much better than the web interface to view recorded video, this is a must have app on the iPhone and iPad if you have BlueIris.

I still use LiveCams Pro on the iPhone and iPad when wanting to view the cams with two way audio though. I was hoping someone was working on a BlueIris plugin to bring the cameras into Vera through BlueIris with the ability to still use Pan and Tilt so there was only one connection to the cameras (BlueIris) instead of BlueIris connecting for recording and Vera connecting to use as motion sensing and bring the camera’s into the other apps like HomeWave or Automator.app. My Cameras are wifi and I can tell when there are multiple connections to them, for the price they are great but I think they work best when there is only one connection to them and I would prefer that connection to be BlueIris and have everyone else including Vera get their video from BlueIris.

Having a Vera Motion Sensor from BlueIris cameras would be useful. Is there any plugin to do this?

rearden

Not yet. We need someone with the know-how and the interest to help.

[quote=“capjay, post:4, topic:171346”]1. download wget.exe for windows from http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
2. put it in some folder, say c:\myfolder
3. create myscene.bat file using notepad with the following code :

c:\myfolder\wget.exe "http://192.168.1.xxx:49451/data_request?id=lu_action&output_format=xml&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=126"
  1. have your software run “myscene.bat” if motion is detected.

HTH.[/quote]

Capjay

I followed your instructions but haven't yet been able to get this to work. 

       -Does port 49451 need to be opened of Vera to accept the command?

       -What vera firmware have you tested this on?

Appreciate any help you can provide. Trying to debug the process.


         Don

[quote=“Don Diego, post:17, topic:171346”]Capjay

I followed your instructions but haven't yet been able to get this to work. 

       -Does port 49451 need to be opened of Vera to accept the command?

       -What vera firmware have you tested this on?

Appreciate any help you can provide. Trying to debug the process.[/quote]

This assumes you are calling that URL from the same subnet as your Vera. Port 49451 should be open on Vera by default. This is working for me on UI5 almost all the recent versions.

Here’s a thread with some info on json control.

http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=3106.0

Thanks to all for your help. I have it working now.

Don