Blue Iris

Blue Iris 5 • Unable to access my camerss with Phone

2024-08-12T01:06:57+00:00

Using my LAN IP ....

When using the Blue Iris app , I get "Unable to Connect - IP banned"
When I use my phone in Google Chrome - I get "access to xx.xxx.xx.xx (my IP address) was denied - you don't have authorization to view this page.

When I use my desktop using the LAN IP I am able to log into my cameras.

Router has port 81 forwarded and the connection wizard in Blue Iris passes

Statistics: Posted by zino1 — Mon Aug 12, 2024 1:06 am — Replies 0 — Views 26

Network cameras • Empire Tech/Dahua Smart motion not feeding ONVIF events

2024-08-11T15:31:42+00:00

Empire Tech Camera IPC-T5xIR-ZE-S3 cameras, and trying to get them fine tuned with BI and CPAI. I am running V3.100.15OG000.0.R, Build Date: 2023-11-27 which I think is the latest.

I found the Smart Motion Detection for Human and Vehicle, and figured I could reduce the CPAI workload by just looking for the people and cars, which are my main concern. I set up the camera as in the first screen shot. In the events I checked the two indicated with red arrows (not as shown in the screen shot).

The camera would log the event in its log, but never fired. I dug a bit deeper with ONVIF manager and its events display, and the camera was sending motion events but never sent the rule detector event for people and vehicle. But it's clearly in the camera event log, so it is detecting.

Does anyone have this working, feeding in these specific events? If so, any magic?

I do not think this is a BI problem because ONVIF manager also doesn't see it (that presumes I am using it correctly, however, and I only use it once every 2 or 3 years for debugging). I haven't figured out how to isolate events in wireshark (anyone know?).

I also tried the IVS option under AI. It looks easy to set up, but I stood directly in front of the camera and it never detected me as a "human trait" so I must be missing something, and fell back to Smart Motion Detection.

Motion detection is working fine (well, sort of fine, having trouble fine tuning it so every bug doesn't trigger) and CPAI is mostly filtering well. But seems like the camera is a better place to do it if it would work, it just doesn't seem to communicate (SMD) or trigger (IVS).

Advice welcomed.

Statistics: Posted by Ferguson — Sun Aug 11, 2024 3:31 pm — Replies 8 — Views 148

Blue Iris 5 • MQTT &MEMO not working? Limit on length?

2024-08-10T18:18:21+00:00

I'm just running into a lot of issues making me think I am doing something incorrectly.

Trying to configure BI to work with Home Assistant which requires MQTT. I have it working but an expected field is being truncated (or possibly just has the wrong content), and not sure why.

I have the on-alert configured with this payload:

Code:

{"type":"Motion","trigger":"On", "memo": "&MEMO"}

The &MEMO is documented as showing the AI's processing confidence as well as what was detected. What I get instead is only this:

Code:

{"type":"Motion","trigger":"On", "memo": "RuleEngine/CellMotionDetector/Motio"}

It appears to be substantially truncating the full memo. It's not an underlying MQTT limitation as I tried adding &JSON and I get the full, long value set including locations, confidence, etc (as below). That's something in theory I could use to get the same info, but it's not what I want. I know in the past I did something to get it showing things like "Person: 93%" though I do not recall precisely.

Am I missing something? I'm going by this definition of &MEMO from the manual:

Code:

{  "api": "objects",  "found": {    "message": "Found bench, person",    "count": 2,    "predictions": [      {        "confidence": 0.6642040014266968,        "label": "bench",        "x_min": 2516,        "y_min": 1253,        "x_max": 3506,        "y_max": 2143      },      {        "confidence": 0.9286361336708069,        "label": "person",        "x_min": 3196,        "y_min": 346,        "x_max": 3510,        "y_max": 1168      }    ],    "success": true,    "processMs": 52,    "inferenceMs": 52,    "moduleId": "ObjectDetectionYOLOv5-6.2",    "moduleName": "Object Detection (YOLOv5 6.2)",    "code": 200,    "command": "detect",    "requestId": "4a5e68ce-0140-447f-a395-986d9b88e394",    "inferenceDevice": "GPU",    "analysisRoundTripMs": 127,    "processedBy": "localhost",    "timestampUTC": "Sat, 10 Aug 2024 18:04:53 GMT"  }}

Statistics: Posted by Ferguson — Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:18 pm — Replies 3 — Views 171

Blue Iris 5 • Camera sync not effective on some items, but not available either

2024-08-10T17:26:21+00:00

Can someone please confirm my understanding. This comes from experimentation, and I do not see it documented. Or, maybe documented.

When I sync camera B to camera A, and do so on the trigger tab, and on the alerts tab, there appear to be aspects that are not sync'd. For example, on the alerts tab the ONVIF triggering items and the On Trigger and On Reset are not sync'd.

HOWEVER, they are not available to change either. You have to un-sync in order to access those fields. Or even to see what's in those fields. But I think (emphasis on think as I've had inconsistent results) that those items persist in whatever state you leave them if you sync again. Maybe.

The motion zones are related and even a bit more strange; if using ONVIF detection with camera zones, you still have to define motion zones for CPAI to exclude those zones (use case: let's say you detect motion on the right side only, but there's a car parked on the left side of a frame; if there's motion (say a bird flies by) then CPAI will see the car on the non-detecting side unless you exclude it in the BI Motion zone, even though you are not using BI Motion detection). I am still a bit unclear what is going on, as the zones keep resetting for me, so it may be (or may not) that the sync is overwriting it.

This all seems very confusing and frankly wrong -- if the sync is not affecting ONVIF events (for example), why is ONVIF events greyed out when sync is on?

And is motion detection zones supposed to work the same way, or is that actually being sync'd?

The result of all this is that I have both alerts and trigger not sync'd, though I really want them to be. I WANT the ONVIF and On Trigger and On Reset to be the same on all cameras. The only thing I do want different is the motion zones, which seems to NOT persist individual changes.

Is my interpretation right?

Is this just broken, or am I not understanding the paradigm?

Linwood

Statistics: Posted by Ferguson — Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:26 pm — Replies 1 — Views 180

Blue Iris 5 • BI stopped calling AI - no errors, just stopped?

2024-08-10T02:45:06+00:00

Running BI 5.9.4.11 x 64 with Code Project 2.6.5. This was all working fine together, I got 4 new cameras and decided to clean up and make the config consistent and somehow, somewhere in doing so I broke something.

Here's the problem -- everything appears to be working, no errors appear anywhere I can find, but BI has stopped confirming alerts with AI. It doesn't show anything in BI to indicate it tried, and watching the status in code project shows no activity.

BI's log shows:

Code:

0 8/9/2024 10:04:35.566 PMLog                 Retaining 13 files (77.9MB)0 8/9/2024 10:04:35.574 PMServer              Started on port 810 8/9/2024 10:04:35.706 PMAI                  responding at 127.0.0.1:32168

so it thinks it can talk to it, so it appears related to not wanting to confirm. There is nothing in the log concerning AI other than that, and CP's log shows no calls. I've tried tweaking settings in the alert section, restarted CP, restarted BI, rebooted. I feel like I've unchecked some option and just plain forgot. But I can't find it.

Does anyone have any idea what I could have broken?

Again -- this was all working. I made no changes to CP, but did a lot of cleanup of configs in BI so most tabs are sync'd from one master camera. So I probably changed something. The screen shots are from that master camera and that master camera is the one I am using for testing.

I did set up alerts going to MQTT to get this working with Home Assistant but that should not occur until after confirmation. And it's not showing any errors either.

Here's a typical log of one event:

Code:

0 8/9/2024 10:30:15.311 PMcamBackDriveway     ONVIF Event: IsMotion="true"0 8/9/2024 10:30:15.311 PMcamBackDriveway     ONVIF Event: MotionAlarm (State="true")0 8/9/2024 10:30:15.312 PMcamBackDriveway     ONVIF Event: RuleEngine/CellMotionDetector/Motion0 8/9/2024 10:30:15.313 PMcamBackDriveway     ONVIF Event: MotionAlarm (State="true")3 8/9/2024 10:30:15.500 PMcamBackDriveway     Triggered: ONVIF (IsMotion="true")3 8/9/2024 10:30:16.108 PMcamBackDriveway     Alerted0 8/9/2024 10:30:16.113 PMcamBackDriveway     MQTT: Publish OK to BlueIris/camBackDriveway/Status0 8/9/2024 10:30:20.100 PMcamBackDriveway     ONVIF Event: RuleEngine/CellMotionDetector/Motion

I am using ONVIF events to detect motion. I've tried taking the motion zones on the alert page off and on (since there's a link to zones and where CP looks for objects) without impact.

Anything?

Statistics: Posted by Ferguson — Sat Aug 10, 2024 2:45 am — Replies 5 — Views 276

Blue Iris 5 • Change Schedule based on DIO bits?

2024-08-09T22:40:01+00:00

Can one change schedules based on DIO bit states?

For example

DIO bit1 AND DIO bit2 true, change schedule to "away"

DIO bit1 AND DIO bit2 false change schedule to "at-home"

And if so, how?

Statistics: Posted by PeteDD — Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:40 pm — Replies 0 — Views 256

General discussion • Towards a better multi-phone geofence

2024-08-09T22:07:58+00:00

The android app and the ability to coordinate having multiple phones outside the fence to activate a change, for example, to an “away” schedule is a great feature. Thing is though that the geofence implementation in the android app has proven to be less than prompt or reliable.

I switched to using EgiGeoZone and http messages and that works great (for one phone). My entry/exit happens in precisely the same place on the road leaving or returning to my house every day. Not sure what they do differently, but that app really has nailed the geofence triggering. I have so far though found no way to coordinate multiple phones using EgiGeoZone with BlueIris.

I have an idea of one way and perhaps this might hopefully trigger a discussion on other ways as well.

What if I used the DIO states as a sort of flags and assign a different DIO to each phone. When exiting the geofence, EgiGeoZone could send an http message to set the DIO and similarly when returning, clear the DIO. Now the question becomes “Can I switch to my ‘away’ schedule based on an AND condition of two (or more) DIO states being true. And similarly switch back to my ‘at-home' schedule when the AND condition is not true?

Thanks in advance for advice and a look so alternative ideas.

Statistics: Posted by PeteDD — Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:07 pm — Replies 4 — Views 361

Older versions • Older Versions?

2024-08-09T21:32:07+00:00

I suppose 5.7.4.2 and 5.7.6.4 are 'old' by today's standards, huh?

Anyway, my tried and true rock solid 5.7.4.2 has the earlier 'Get ONVIF Trigger Events' option in the IP cam configuration pane but lacks the 'ONVIF/Camera Events' configuration option available in 5.7.6.4. (a demo). The latter works as one would expect. The former on my main server is giving me a run for the money and I can't quite figure it out or find equivalent options to the 'ONVIF/Camera Events' section provided in 5.7.6.4.

Any assistance in pointing me toward the snake that probably should have bitten me already will be appreciated!

Statistics: Posted by Pogo — Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:32 pm — Replies 0 — Views 345

Blue Iris 5 • BI APP not connecting to WAN

2024-08-09T16:19:54+00:00

Hey everybody! I’m having an issue with my Blue Iris app not connecting on my WAN. The app connect fine using lan. I also have no problems connecting to UI3 on lan or wan. I don’t have “only allow access on lan” checked. I am using ZeroTier. Would anyone have any suggestions to get the app to use with wan?

Statistics: Posted by IH784 — Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:19 pm — Replies 1 — Views 292

Blue Iris 5 • IOS PUSH NOTIFICATION STOP WORKING FROM JUNE 2024

2024-08-09T15:13:19+00:00

I, first sorry for my english but it is not my native language.
Push notification on my iphone before june worked well but perhaps after an update, that stop to work. Got error popups log error 80090308.
IOS app version 2.04.05 (up to date) and tryed lot of version of BI 5.9.4 and 5.9.5.
It seem to be like last year 2023 with certificate apple are issued.
Please, staff answer to your client, make blue iris work or fix bug more rapidly. We paid for that so... Your staf have to find a solution for the certificate ( eatch years the same probleme).
The ios app version is aged of 6 or 8 mount now!!!!

Client paid so... you have to get more employe to work on bug and issues.

Another things ( never answer from my email asking you applewatch app) Some people have children with applewatch 4G and gps but not an iphone. Please create an apple watch app to get work at least for geolocation of children entering and outgoing from home like iphone or android.

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by MAGADE — Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:13 pm — Replies 0 — Views 283