Is BlueIris Plugin Still Supported by developer?

[Steve]

I never mind paying for a plugin.
I have a lot of time invested in my HS and BI installation.
I would pay for a new BI plugin.
BI is powerful and even more so when coupled with HS.

[Mr_Resistor]

I'd shell out for a fully functional BI - PI. I paid for the last one.... and it served me well for years. I'd do it again.

[ewkearns]

FWIW, there is more incentive as UltraSightHoundVideo is now at end of life.

[alphatech]

Sorry, can you elaborate on it, I'm a sighthound user and they are still making changes, slowly but they are. Is there something that you read that I'm unaware of?

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[ewkearns]

Sorry, can you elaborate on it, I'm a sighthound user and they are still making changes, slowly but they are. Is there something that you read that I'm unaware of?

This is what is End of Life, not Sighthound per se.

[Eki]

I would not bother with the plugin either. I would not even bother with MQTT. You can talk to BI directly, which is what I do. I have six cameras. I get the 6-camera matrix from BI and display it. Then you can click on individual camera to start streaming the individual camera.

[mminehan]

I would not bother with the plugin either. I would not even bother with MQTT. You can talk to BI directly, which is what I do. I have six cameras. I get the 6-camera matrix from BI and display it. Then you can click on individual camera to start streaming the individual camera.

What do you mean by 'talk to BI directly'? If you don't use the PI or MQTT how you get HS to tell BI to manually trigger a recording?

For example when the burglar alarm is triggered in our house we use HS and the plugin to trigger all cameras to record for 5 minutes. How would you do this without MQTT or the plugin?

Or some people like to trigger HS events based on 'motion detection' from BI, a method that often produces false positives, but that's OK for some people.

So I don't undertsand how you communicate actions between HS and BI without MQTT or the plugin.

[Eki]

>> For example when the burglar alarm is triggered in our house we use HS and the plugin to trigger all cameras to record for 5 minutes. How would you do this without MQTT or the plugin?

When you get the security system trigger, start BI streaming to node-red ... you get an mjpeg stream. In NR, take that stream and write it to a file. After 5 minutes, stop the stream. IF you do not know how to do that, google node-red mjpeg stream to a file

[jon00]

What do you mean by 'talk to BI directly'? If you don't use the PI or MQTT how you get HS to tell BI to manually trigger a recording?

For example when the burglar alarm is triggered in our house we use HS and the plugin to trigger all cameras to record for 5 minutes. How would you do this without MQTT or the plugin?

Or some people like to trigger HS events based on 'motion detection' from BI, a method that often produces false positives, but that's OK for some people.

So I don't undertsand how you communicate actions between HS and BI without MQTT or the plugin.

To trigger a camera recording from Homeseer directly see here

To trigger an event from BI go to, Trigger/Immediate Actions/ + /Web request or MQTT, add the following URL:

http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YY/JSON?request=runevent&group=Security&name=SideDoor

Where XXX & YY are Homeseer's IP Address/Port and Security & SideDoor are the group/name of the HS event you wish to run.

No Plugin/MQTT/Node-Red required.

[mminehan]

To trigger a camera recording from Homeseer directly see here

To trigger an event from BI go to, Trigger/Immediate Actions/ + /Web request or MQTT, add the following URL:

http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YY/JSON?request=runevent&group=Security&name=SideDoor

Where XXX & YY are Homeseer's IP Address/Port and Security & SideDoor are the group/name of the HS event you wish to run.

No Plugin/MQTT/Node-Red required.

Well I did not know that. I'll have to look into this. Thank you.

It will be great to get rid of another plugin.

[Jerry Coleman]

+1 - I'd pay for a more-functioned plug-in for BI

[DebrodeD]

Building off of what mminehan posted, I recently bypassed this integration by creating virtual "motion sensors" in Homeseer for each of my BI cameras. They switch to "Motion" when the camera triggers and then switch to "no motion" when it resets. Here are the steps to recreate:

1. Create a virtual device in Homeseer and edit its "control" feature to be called "Motion Sensor"
2. Edit the Controls & Statuses within that feature to look and feel more like a motion sensor (with the only weird thing being that the "motion sensor" still has to have "controls" or the web requests won't work). It will look like this in Homeseer:
   
3. Then in Blue Iris you're "on alert" alert will use this URL: 192.168.1.99/JSON?request=controldevicebyvalue&ref=1151&value=100 (ref 1151 being the id of the "motion sensor" feature, not the root virtual device).
4. And in "on reset" in BI, you'll use this URL: 192.168.1.99/JSON?request=controldevicebyvalue&ref=1151&value=0

And that's it! You've got a fully functioning "motion sensor" that you can use to turn on/off lights

[The Profit]

Question is how many of the current plugin users would be interested in paying again for a new plugin....

Creating, supporting and maintaining a plugin is quite time consuming

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I’m will to pay for a plugin that’s supported!


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[avpman]

Question is how many of the current plugin users would be interested in paying again for a new plugin....

Creating, supporting and maintaining a plugin is quite time consuming

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+1

[ocyberbum]

+1

+1 - i would pay for another, and BI is always adding features like the AI etc and i think blue iris and HS are one of the best setups