MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

thewolf56 · 2023-11-02T18:15:45+00:00

A while back, I tried to setup Blue Iris and Home Assistant through the Blue Iris Integration in Home Assistant and MQTT to send me notifications through Home Assistant with the Blue Iris alert image attached. I had no success at the time, so I settled for setting up binary sensors (some with AI required objects) and simple payloads of "on". This worked perfectly and I was able to setup Home Assistant to take it's own snapshot of the image for the notification, but with the processing delays, this snapshot was not always accurate as to what actually triggered Blue Iris. I recently started trying to get the Blue Iris Alert Image working again. Yesterday, I learned that a possible source of my issue was that the POST tab of my camera never had Post JPEGs set, so I set it and enabled the test automation in Home Assistant for the notification with the BI Alert Image. An Amazon delivery driver came into my courtyard and I received a notification through Home Assistant with the Blue Iris alert image attached with the AI identification boxes on the jpeg. Great news. then my wife went to the courtyard to get the package and I got a new notification with the JPEG attached, only it was the same Blue Iris alert image with the Amazon driver. I've tried checking various settings, but even just using the testing section of the Alerts, I still only get the Amazon delivery driver photo. I double checked the folder where Home Assistant stores the snapshot. The metadata for the photo gets updated as a new file is saved before being attached to the notification, but it's still the same image. I even tried changing the automation so that it saves the payload jpeg as a different name, but even the newly-named image has the same image. Here is my On Alert settings MQTT topic: BI/courtyard_camera/alert-image-b64 Post/payload: { "camera":"&CAM", "time":"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S", "dbid":"&ALERT_DB" } Here is my Post settings for the camera I would love to figure this out as there are a few cameras I would really like to add the BI alert images to the notifications. Any help is appreciated