BI is now part of my active alarm system.

iwanttosee

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I set my BlueIris to communicate via HACS BlueIris plugin and MQTT to my Home Assistant. If Home Assistant get a MQTT message of a person detected from the camera I specified between 9pm and 4am, Home Assistant will turn on all my backyard exterior lights via smart switches, flash my interior lights via smart switches, and sound the doorbell to alert us. I hope that day will never come but nice to know we got it cover and the alert will give us the precious seconds to response to the threat.

With my old Hikvision or any other pre-built NVR, the best one can hope for us if it record what already happened. Zero chance to catch someone in action because there would be way too many false alarm with motion detection on.
 
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