Do you happen to have a link to more detailed info on how to send mqtt commands to blue iris? Easy to send from BI but to send commands to BI I cannot seem to find much info.BI has this built in, just publish on the right topics to trigger the cams
4.7.0 - March 2, 2018 - MQTT IoT (Internet of Things) protocol
4.7.0 - March 2, 2018 - edited with some additional features added in 4.7.0.1 Support for XP/Vista should be once again restored with 4.7.0.1. If you are still using one of these older platforms, it is recommended that you move to Windows 10 or 8.1 this year to retain full compatibility...ipcamtalk.com
topic: "BlueIris/admin"
payload: "camera=backyard&trigger"
I have somewhat the same setup. 3 outdoor PIR's connected to my DSC alarm system which MQTT to Home Assistant to set off alarms. This is what I consider primary. The secondary is upon motion from a camera, Deepstack & Onguard sends trigger to a specific camera to start recording in full resolution, which makes the camera also send a MQTT to Home Assistant to set off alarms and turn on my Smart TV with a Amazon Firestick so that UI3 pops up.Yes the watchdog is a cool feature. I've enabled that too.
Also the ability to restart the windows pc from the UI, monitor its performance also.
Now with the cheap PIR's I have outside which are triggered with sunlight easily I can configure these to just trigger the BI snapshots and use deepstack to analyze the scenes.