I’ve been using the blueiris plugin for years without any real problems until now. I just added a new camera to blue iris, so I added another vera device via the vera blueiris plugin menu. I can get everything working, except after some time, the camera goes offline. I think this is related to the fact that I cannot set the username and password. Anytime I try, I get “Unable to change the camera’s username/password” in a warning message across the screen. It works at first when I hard set the username and password in the URL variable, but it won’t take at the device level.
Running the “/data_request?id=user_data&output_format=xml” command and looking at the device, it is missing the username and password options in the device that all the other cameras I’m using have. I’m pretty confident that it’s failing because it can’t set variables that don’t exist, but I’ve tried removing and adding it a few times and it always has the same problem, like the plugin has a compatibility issue with the newer firmware or something, but I can’t figure out how to resolve it. Any ideas anyone, or is anyone else seeing this issue?
You can add the variable manually if that’s what the plugin needs. A plugin can create variables, but maybe this one chooses not to? Just make sure you add it with the correct SID as well as variable name (match the working one). Case matters.
You can add the variable manually if that’s what the plugin needs. A plugin can create variables, but maybe this one chooses not to? Just make sure you add it with the correct SID as well as variable name (match the working one). Case matters.[/quote]
I know how to create variables that show up in the “states” section of the device, but not on the device itself. What method do I use to accomplish this? Also, what is the SID, I’m not seeing that option at all, maybe that’s my problem.
Have you had any progress on this? I have a blueiris configuration with 4 cameras. 2 cameras were configured a long time ago and they show the “Current Username & Password” fields to have a value filled in. I just tried to add 2 new cameras that are working on my blueiris server to Vera and the video is streaming but I get a big prompt from Vera on top saying I need to change the default password and the “Current Username & Password” fields are blank on these 2 and when I try to add a “New Username & Password” it fails. So running on the same blueiris server, I have 2 cameras working fine but they were configured in Vera a long time ago and now any camera I add has the annoying prompt from Vera ontop of the camera’s streaming video.
I went to properties of the devices and cannot find any way to create a new variable called username, or password to inject something. Any help is greatly appreciated if you found a solution…
Nevermind. I found a workaround for the regarding the username and password field. I had to delete the cameras that I was adding, ignore creating the cameras through the blueiris vera app; I just added a generic IP camera from the standard Add Device page with the IP information for my blueiris server. During a manual “add device” for IP camera, I was given a username and password field where I typed the values and it configured the device. I then had to go to the newly created camera, add the implementation file in the field “l_blueiris.xml” and save. After a few minutes, I could then go and change the URL value, DirectStreaming path, and the “name” variable for blueiris. The Current Username and Password field are still filled in from what I entered during the “Add Device → Generic IP Camera” so no more nagging even though my blueiris doesn’t need the values…
where:
DDD - is the device number of your Netatmo plugin
XXX - is your Netatmo account username
YYY - is your Netatmo account password (avoid special characters)
[quote=“Viruta57, post:688, topic:181819”]It does not work… ???[/quote]Check your double quotes. They must the standard ascii double quotes. The inner double quotes in your screenshot look like they are from a word processor that is not standard ascii. Try typing this in directly, not using a cut and paste. Just a guess, though, may not be your issue.
You were right for the double quote … but even though I managed to register my username and password in the camera credentials … I can not communicate with my cameras … I never had trouble before … but since I tried to install new cameras … I can not establish the connection … I uninstalled Blue Iris app and I tried again to install a camera that I already had … and it does not work either … There seems to be a bug somewhere … I used the procedure found on Github more than once to make sure that I did not make a mistake … I managed to create a device according to the procedure … Regarding the camera credentials … I have to proceed with the luup cmd … and it seems to work because that I find the information under the parameters of the camera and also under the camera credentials … I take care also to make sure to put the camera short name and verifies more than once to make sure it was the good one …
I would like to know if it is possible for one of you to try to install a new camera with the procedure from Blue Iris Github web page to try to reproduce the problem that I have to know if it comes from my system or me or simply from the App …
I also wrote to Vera support few days ago… no answer yet…
Finally I wanted to know if the problem was the new version of Vera … so I went back to an old version of Vera 1.7.2608 to see if the problem was Vera … Well no … it was my Apple computer that prevented me from completing the administrator and password boxes … So after going back to the old version of Vera … I used my PC instead of my Mac book pro … and without problem I could change my credentials for my Username and my Password … So I was able to create my cameras with the motion detectors … I could at this moment make the connection with the motions detectors … and if I make a test with the motion detector with Blue Iris everything works find … But I can not get any image or video to appears on my camera devices on Vera’s interface … It seems that there is a problem with the URL … I’m not an expert on the subject … but there is a connection between my cameras and the motion detectors … but I do not get any picture … By the way … after doing a downgrading with vera … I went back to the most recent version … and as I said rather … I have no problem to change my variables with a PC with the latest version … I imagine that there is a problem of compatibility with Apple and the url’s streaming… it does not seem to work as before …
So the problem came from the authentification like it was mention in a post before… so what I did… I changed the parameters for authentication on BI on the web server access from " for all connections"… to “only for non-lan only”
Everything is working find now… can add cameras without any problem
I have an Asustor NAS that i want it to be connected to, but im in dialog with TP-Link so im hopeing that Asustor may get access to the plugin or else TP-Link has informed me that NC210 and NC 450 dosent require the web plugin…
I just installed the plugin and am having trouble getting it running.
The plugin created a device Blue Iris CAM #56. I click on the Arrow to go into settings then go into advanced and enter my Blue Iris server IP (192.168.1.200:81) and the credentials for the server login.
When I click done at the bottom of the page I get a pop-up error saying “Failed to perform test on camera, please try again.”
I am not sure if there are steps I should be taking first to point the plugin to the right camera or what i am doing wrong.
Hello, I’m trying to get the plugin to work on UI7 but can only get the index stream (ie all cameras)
I have tried the plugin first, then adding manually (Following instructions) as well but no joy, I rename the device to the camera short name but it makes no difference, any ideas what I am doing wrong
It has been a couple of years since I installed and configured BI. If I remember, you also need the DVR Install Utility. This creates additional cameras to give you camera “streams” individually in addition to the composite. It may be in this thread - I know, a lot of reading but that is what I did.
hello, I have the plugin installed and working now but I have noticed that even if a camera BI is set NOT to record when I go into the camera within Vera some events are recorded, how is this controlled? please
