BlueIris

Description

Integration with Blue Iris Video Security Software. Creates the following components:

• Camera - per-camera defined.
• MQTT Binary Sensors (MOTION, AUDIO, WATCHDOG) - per-camera defined.
• Switch (Arm / Unarmed) - only when profiles and admin username and password are provided.
• Support HLS Streams instead of H264.
• Support SSL with self-signed certificate.

Changelog

How to

Requirements

• BlueIris Server available with a user
• To control profiles, user must have 'admin' level permissions
• MQTT Integration is optional - it will allow to listen to BlueIris event
• Read the BlueIris manual for this component

Installations via HACS

Look for "Integration with Blue Iris NVR" and install

Integration settings

Basic configuration (Configuration -> Integrations -> Add BlueIris)

host: hostname or ip
port: port 
username: Username of admin user for BI
password: Password of admin user for BI 
ssl: should use ssl?

Integration options (Configuration -> Integrations -> BlueIris Integration -> Options)

Username: Username of admin user for BI 
Password: Password of admin user for BI
Clear credentials: Checkbox, workaround to clear the textbox of username & password due to an issue while filling partially form in HA Options, default=False
Exclude system camera: should include / exclude system camera (All / Cycle), default=False

Configuration validations

Upon submitting the form of creating an integration or updating options,

Component will try to login to the BlueIris server to verify new settings, following errors can appear:

• BlueIris integration ({name}) already configured
• Invalid administrator credentials - credentials are invalid or user is not an admin
• Invalid server details - Cannot reach the server

Password protection

Password is being saved in integration settings to .storage encrypted,

In the past password saved in clear text, to use the encryption, please remove the integration, restart HA and re-add integration,

As long as the password will remain in clear text saved in integration setting, the following warning log message will appear during restart:

EdgeOS password is not encrypted, please remove integration and reintegrate

Components

Binary Sensor - Alerts

State: represents whether there is an active alert or not
Attributes:
    Active alerts #
    System name
    Version
    License
    Support expiration
    Logged in User
    Latitude
    Longitude

Binary Sensor - Connectivity - Non-system-camera

State: represents whether the camera is online or not (based on MQTT message)

Binary Sensor - Audio - Non-system-camera and camera supports audio

State: represents whether the camera is triggered for noise or not (based on MQTT message)

Binary Sensor - Motion - Non-system-camera

State: represents whether the camera is triggered for motion or not (based on MQTT message)

Camera

State: Idle
Attributes:
    FPS
    Audio support
    Width
    Height
    Is Online
    Is Recording
    Issue (Camera is yellow)
    Alerts #
    Triggers #
    Clips #
    No Signal #
    Error

Switch - Profile (Per profile)

If you are turning off one of the switch it will work according to the following order: Profile #1 turned off, will turn on Profile #0 All the other profiles upon turning off, will turn on Profile #1

State: Allows to set the active profile, only one of the profile switches can be turned on at a time

Lovelace UI Configuration

Example of UI layout

Casting

Currently the Stream Component is a bit ragged to use to cast Blue Iris video streams, which don't need proxying.

Auto-generating configurations service:

blueiris.generate_advanced_configurations service will create YAML with all the configurations in the config directory under blueiris.advanced_configurations.yaml:

• Input select (drop-downs)
• Script to cast based on the selection
• UI of all the components created by BlueIris based on the description above

Example of configuration output

Lovelace UI for casting

# Example ui-lovelace.yaml view entry
  - type: entities
    title: Cast Camera to Screen
    show_header_toggle: false
    entities:
      - entity: input_select.camera_dropdown
      - entity: input_select.cast_to_screen_dropdown
      - entity: script.execute_cast_dropdown

Example of configuration output

Contributors

@darkgrue