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  1. pmcross

    Home Assistant

    I am running Home Assistant and have BI send an MQTT command to HA to announce through my echo devices when someone is at my front door. I am also using the same setup to alert me when a car pulls into my front or back driveway. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
  2. pmcross

    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    The easiest way to do this would be to trigger a camera in BI from AI Tool and then have BI send an email alert based on the triggered event. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  3. pmcross

    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    Update: This is now working. It ran overnight and then began working this morning. I restarted the Ubuntu VM and ran DeepStack inside Docker last night. Just wanted to pass this good news along. I'm just unsure why it had to run so long before beginning to work. I believe that others have had...
  4. pmcross

    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    Has anyone been able to get this working recently? I had it working for awhile running on my BI machine, but then it stopped working. I’ve since built a windows 10 VM and installed DeepStack using the instructions posted by @GentlePumpkin as well as tried running AI tool on the same VM as well...
  5. pmcross

    Sighthound 6.0 Beta is available!

    Just wanted to let everyone know that Sighthound now has a 6 camera home offering for $120. I was notified by Steve from Sighthound today about the new offering. I had purchased (2) 2 camera licenses running two instances of Sighthound a while ago. I had been looking for a middle tier offering...
  6. pmcross

    Dropcam & Nest Doorbell camera

    They should. Are the drop cams in the nest app? If so, you just need to add the doorbell to the nest app. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  7. pmcross

    Doorbell For Use With Blue Iris AND Google Home?

    I have a zone set up in blue iris for my nest hello to only trigger when someone is at my front door. I then use home assistant to announce that someone is at the front door through my echo devices. I’m not sure if blue iris has a way of differentiate a motion event from a doorbell ring, but if...
  8. pmcross

    Doorbell For Use With Blue Iris AND Google Home?

    I second Hone Assistant, it is awesome. I use it to announce when someone is at my front door through my echo devices. I use Blue Iris with Sentry to trigger a MQTT topic to Home Assistant when a person is detected in a zone on my front porch. Home Assistant runs on a Linux OS natively, so not...
  9. pmcross

    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    I am now getting errors in AI tool. I tried restarting the service as well as renaming the history.csv to history.csv.old I've since renamed the original, but continue to get errors in the logs. Has anyone else ran across this problem? .12.2019, 14:37:46]: ERROR: Can't write to...
  10. pmcross

    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    Has anyone had issues with the alert image not being sent to the folder for AI Tool to analyze? Last night my father in law stopped but I didn't receive an alert from AI Tool. I began digging into BI to see what happened. I have my cameras and cloned cameras set up per this threads...
  11. pmcross

    Bad performance on Windows Server 2019 compared to Windows 10

    Please let me know what you discover after installing drivers. I’d imagine that Server 2019 would work the same as Windows 10 since they are the same code, but I’m definitely curious to see what you find. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. pmcross

    [tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

    Just wanted to say thank you to @GentlePumpkin for this amazing software. I am currently using Sentry for AI, but I set up this tool on my two doorbell cams and it is working flawlessly. I am definitely considering switching from Sentry to this software.
  13. pmcross

    Motion everywhere... :(

    You could use Smart Home Sentry to analyze your images and only alert you if people are detected. It is an AI solution that is discussed on this forum along with others, such as AI Tool that uses DeepStack for it’s AI. The latter does require a dedicated computer while the former can be sent...
  14. pmcross

    DoorBell camera usage

    Sure thing, here is a thread that goes over how to set it up: Recording Nest cameras with Blue Iris https://ipcamtalk.com/index.php?threads/Recording-Nest-cameras-with-Blue-Iris.24180/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. pmcross

    Sorry for the delayed response here. Not sure if you still need assistance with this, but I...

    Sorry for the delayed response here. Not sure if you still need assistance with this, but I defined an automation in HA and set the trigger type as MQTT and then triggered MQTT from BI by adding the HA IP address to the MQTT server under the Digital IO and IoT section under the main settings in...
  16. pmcross

    BlueIris not picking up motion in certain areas... need some help

    you may also want to enable high definition to help with picking up motion at night. Also, I agree with @IAmATeaf you need to turn down the contrast a bit for the night profile.
  17. pmcross

    DoorBell camera usage

    I have 2 Nest Hello's that I use with BI and I don't have many people that ring my doorbell that I need to speak to, but it does happen occasionally. It is nice to look to see who is at the door or if a package has been dropped off though. Plus it gives a really good facial ID since it is at...
  18. pmcross

    Running as a windows service ? has odd effect on my NAS Drive ? B.i 5

    You just need to create a user on the Synology to match how you log into the PC running BI. I.e. the username and password needs to match what the PC is set to. Then grant full permissions to the share for the account on the Synology. Once this is done change BI to run as a service and change...
  19. pmcross

    Recording Nest cameras with Blue Iris

    Thanks for this. This helped me tremendously with my new Nest Hello doorbell since Nest removed the RTMPS URL from the source page of the public feed. I know that Nest isn't the best based on their cloud model, but until IP camera doorbells evolve without the fish eye, I plan on keeping my Nest...
  20. pmcross

    Different Way to Transport Server.............

    This is the first time that I've ever seen a server transported this way. This was an old server that one of my clients asked me to dispose of. I scrapped it for parts, pulled the 5 HDD's, memory and RAID controller, and then set it at the bottom of my yard. There are usually people that pick up...