Vera Blue Iris Unofficial Plugin

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Great work, I have integlikewhoa’s scene/trigger/luup working so when my armed Aeotec 4 in 1 motion sensor is tripped, BI changes to a profile that starts 5 cameras recording continuously - just what I was looking for. Now I need to figure out stop recording. My thought is to have Vera issue another Luup command to switch back to another profile that would stop recording. Tried adding a delay to the scene but can’t find a place to add the Luup code. Any ideas on how to stop recording? Undertoe, will the update address this type of event?

Thanks

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Great work, I have integlikewhoa’s scene/trigger/luup working so when my armed Aeotec 4 in 1 motion sensor is tripped, BI changes to a profile that starts 5 cameras recording continuously - just what I was looking for. Now I need to figure out stop recording. My thought is to have Vera issue another Luup command to switch back to another profile that would stop recording. Tried adding a delay to the scene but can’t find a place to add the Luup code. Any ideas on how to stop recording? Undertoe, will the update address this type of event?

Thanks[/quote]

I think you should start a new thread (reguarding to LUUP question) and ask about adding a delay to your current luup. So it would run your current luup then add a delay then run the 2nd (stop command) all part of one trigger or one scene. I’m not good enough with LUUP but it should be something similar to this.

luup.call_delay(“XXXXXXX”,60)

the 60 is for 60 second delay. The X’s are what you want to do in 60 secs.

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I just wanted to thank the dev of this plugin. Spot On plugin!
I was worried about getting my QSEE SDI-HD 718 DVR system working with Vera, but with your plugin and blue iris as the middle man I couldn’t be happier. I made the decision to go with SDI-HD over IP cameras based on a good deal I got on the system and really started regretting it when I looked into interfacing Vera with none IP camera systems. You saved me a lot of grief from my wife and for that I am extremely appreciative. Keep up the good work!

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Great news, I was working with Ken the developer of BI and we have came up with a url command to start and stop recording. This will allow the function to be available with the BI vera plugin. This feature will not be released until the new version of BI is out. I will also hold off on releasing anything until i get this feature working.

The new version will include the following

[ul][li]BI profile changing with special functions that handle your cameras config settings[/li]
[li]Record On and Off Functions[/li]
[li]Camera Button functionality for integration to BI recording[/li][/ul]

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Well done, sir.

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Care to share that command?

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It’s not even available yet to use so even if I shared it, it would have no use :slight_smile: I don’t want to jump the gun since it’s not officially released. I will wait for BI to make that announcement and when it’s out I will be more than happy to pass it along.

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Got it, I was assuming BI already had this command in its software. I was unaware a BI software update was needed.

Thanks,

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Hi–

BI update such as a completely new version? or just a update to the current version?

Don
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Care to share that command?[/quote]

If you set up a scene that when a device is tripped (like a motion sensor) and add the luup command below will trigger recording start in BI.

luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.140:xxxx/admin?camera=G1&trigger&user=xxxx&pw=xxxx”)

192.168.1.140:xxxx is your computer’s IP and port that is running BI
Camera=G1 is the camera short name in BI
User=xxxx is your BI user name
Pw=is the BI password

In the camera properties, motion/trigger tab set “End trigger unless re-triggered within xxx.xx sec. (this is the break time)” in the record tab, from the pull down list “Video: when triggered”. You can add more cameras to a group and have them all record if you like.

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[quote=“lunchour, post:190, topic:181819”]If you set up a scene that when a device is tripped (like a motion sensor) and add the luup command below will trigger recording start in BI.

luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.140:xxxx/admin?camera=G1&trigger&user=xxxx&pw=xxxx”)

192.168.1.140:xxxx is your computer’s IP and port that is running BI
Camera=G1 is the camera short name in BI
User=xxxx is your BI user name
Pw=is the BI password

In the camera properties, motion/trigger tab set “End trigger unless re-triggered within xxx.xx sec. (this is the break time)” in the record tab, from the pull down list “Video: when triggered”. You can add more cameras to a group and have them all record if you like.[/quote]

Looks the same as I posted on page 10 post# 144 last month.

[quote=“integlikewhoa, post:145, topic:181819”]You can already trigger BI to start recording by sending a http command. And you can send the http command via LUUP in scene or with PLEG.

The command would be as follows:

http://“YourIP:YourPort”/admin?camera=“ShortCarmeraName”&trigger&user=“YourUserName”&pw=“YourPassword”

So for an example of my computer IP # 192.168.1.100 and port #9999
May camer short name is Patio
and my user is ADMIN and password is TEST

http://192.168.1.100:9999/admin?camera=PATIO&trigger&user=ADMIN&pw=TEST

That will trigger “Patio” camera to start recording

All of this and more can be found in the “BLUE IRIS HELP PDF” serach google for it.

Page 77 under “Direct image, video and command requests”

But if you have access to the developer he should be able to help you. LOL

I currently use this command
/admin?profile=x Where “X” is the profile number 1-7 that you want. In the example below is #3

http://192.168.1.100:9999/admin?profile=[b]3[/b]&user=ADMIN&pw=TEST

Using my current “home and away” setup in vera I can change BI to different profiles that have different alerts and set motion areas. When I’m gone it records inside the house with any motion, and will send me alerts if motion is detected on inside and outside cameras where people shouldn’t be if I’m home.

When I’m home I don’t want private recordings of inside the house ;D and I don’t want to get a ton of alerts from BI while I’m home.

BI now does some of this with the built in GEOfence on their app, but I haven’t got mine to work very well and I already have a more complex setup then just geofence already taking place in vera so I just use PLEG to send a HTTP code to switch up the profile when me or the wife leave.

EDIT: sorry one more thing in LUUP to send an http command you need to put it in this

luup.inet.wget(“InsertHttpHere”)
Leaving the “” in place. So for above example would look like this

luup.inet.wget(“http://192.168.1.100:9999/admin?profile=[b]3[/b]&user=ADMIN&pw=TEST”)[/quote]

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It is integlikewhoa, sorry I did not give you credit :cry:

I was looking at so many fourms for different puzzle pices…

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Awesome plugin! I’ve been using BI for years now. Haven’t used my VeraLite for a while but thought I’d give it a try again and upgraded it to UI7.

I eventually got the cameras to work by unticking the “Secure Only” option in Blue Iris…

But in the Vera UI my camera is always listed under “Failed Devices” even though if I click on it I can see the live image etc… Any ideas? Is anyone using UI7 with this plugin yet?

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[quote=“tommysharp, post:193, topic:181819”]Awesome plugin! I’ve been using BI for years now. Haven’t used my VeraLite for a while but thought I’d give it a try again and upgraded it to UI7.

I eventually got the cameras to work by unticking the “Secure Only” option in Blue Iris…

But in the Vera UI my camera is always listed under “Failed Devices” even though if I click on it I can see the live image etc… Any ideas? Is anyone using UI7 with this plugin yet?[/quote]

Why would you ruin a good Vera and move to UI7? Half the plugins don’t work right with ui7.

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@tommysharp
Had the same problem with the failed device issue. What I did to clear this condition was to select the camera, go to advanced settings and change the value in “commFailure” to 0. Then clear out and save, re-load vera, and in my case it finally disappeared from the failed device list. That is until the next time. Same procedure followed again with similar results, and has stayed off failed device list for over a week. Progress??

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Why would you ruin a good Vera and move to UI7? Half the plugins don't work right with ui7.

Ha fair point! I wasn’t very impressed with the vera when I first bought it. Have been using Domoticz on a raspberry Pi for a while now. Was going to sell the Vera but thought I’d give UI7 a try…

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@dbeck52
I power cycle the Vera and my cameras seem to be working well. Will keep an eye on them over the next few days.

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Recently got a Vera Lite (came with UI7), installed this plugin from the app marketplace and got one of my Blue Iris cameras working great with the motion detection. Here is my (somewhat stupid) question…how can I set up my other two cameras in Blue Iris using this plugin? If I try to ‘add a camera’, there is no field in the advanced settings to put the camera ‘short’ name. It seems I can only add one camera using this plugin ‘device’.

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Im not on UI7 some some things will be different but might help.

Go to apps, My apps (see what you have installed) click on the blue iris camera plugin, it will tell you the version number the plugin number and should be a button that says create another. Create on for each camera.

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Thanks for the reply. I did more research and found that in UI7 there is no link to create another instance of the plugin. So, I did it the old fashioned way and just went to apps > develop apps > create device…then entered the proper info for each camera and it is working.