Binary sensors working until HA restart

[tetragram55]

I had this working nice.
And then I did a restart on Homeassistant. It created a new set of sensors with a _2 suffix.
I cleaned it up and removed everything and started over.
I reinstalled and it went okay and everything is there again but none of the sensors work in the home assistant user interface.
The camera views work just not the sensors.

They show up in mqtt but won't trigger in home assistant.
Here is a copy of what happens when I move in front of the camera:

HiveMQ Messages:
2020-02-16 17:07:10Topic: BlueIris/Cam2/StatusQos: 2{ "type": "MOTION_A", "trigger": "OFF" }
2020-02-16 17:06:57Topic: BlueIris/Cam2/StatusQos: 2{ "type": "MOTION_A", "trigger": "ON" }
2020-02-16 17:06:55Topic: BlueIris/Cam2/StatusQos: 2{ "type": "MOTION_A", "trigger": "ON" }
2020-02-16 17:06:54Topic: BlueIris/Cam2/StatusQos: 2{ "type": "MOTION_A", "trigger": "ON" }
2020-02-16 17:06:49Topic: BlueIris/Cam2/StatusQos: 2{ "type": "MOTION_A", "trigger": "ON" }
2020-02-16 17:06:34Topic: BlueIris/appQos: 2Retainedunexpected stop

Let me know what I can do to help you help me troubleshoot this,
Thanks!

[kzaoaai]

Same issue for me. MQTT shows the correct messages, but the HA binary_sensors don't change state from off.

[cbuxton5200]

I think I have a similar issue, I installed the integration and successfully added my server to the configuration. I can add the entities to a lovelace card and view the camera stream, however, I am not getting any state change on the motion detection binary sensor. Any thing I can check? I have uninstalled and reinstalled, but it doesn't change.

[elad-bar]

I'm working on a fix for that issue, will take few more days to fix and test,
Will update

[Linwood-F]

If you need someone to test, I am just starting to get BlueIris going with HA, so no real loss if I break something.

[b0ddu]

I have the same issue. Never got it sensors working. I know from mqtt addon logs, blueiris connects to the broker but sensors are not updated on dashboard. will wait for the fix. thanks.

[Linwood-F]

I'm not seeing this working, still after the last change. As an example, I have a camera camDriveway in BlueIris. To confirm BlueIris is set up right, I defined this test sensor manually:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: camDriveway Motion
    device_class: motion
    state_topic: "BlueIris/camDriveway/Status"
    value_template: "{{ value_json['trigger'] }}"

Again, this was just a test, but this works perfectly - if I trigger in BlueIris this goes on, then a bit later off.

But the automatically generated sensor binary_sensor.blueiris_camdriveway_motion that comes from the integration does not change after installing the new update and restarting HA.

I tried deleting the integration and adding it again, restarted HA, same result.

I'm on 0.106.0 and the commit referenced above.

[elad-bar]

can you post the log of MQTT, I would like to reproduce the same messages on my system to understand it better

thanks

[Linwood-F]

I apologise for the lack of familiarity, is this a log I would get from HA? Perhaps with a config yaml setting? I can run MQTT_Explorer as well, but it's more of a real time display I think?

[elad-bar]

I'm using MQTTBox (Windows 10) but you can use any other tool if you already have it,
Based on the progress of the investigation I might also need HA logs (but you can do it without changing the config YAML).

Developer -> Services -> find service named logger.set_level with the following data in the request:
custom_components.blueiris: debug

afterwards, you will need to remove the BlueIris integration and re-add it, 2 minutes afterward, you can take the logs zip it and post it

thanks

[Linwood-F]

See if these help:

logs.zip

This part is consistent I think:

2020-02-28 12:42:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.blueiris.binary_sensors.main] Received BlueIris Message - BlueIris/camDriveway/Status: { "type": "EXTERNAL", "trigger": "ON" }
2020-02-28 12:42:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.blueiris.home_assistant] Updating @None

Somehow the message just isn't connecting to the camera.

Note I left it on the first version you posted today, not the one just up a few minutes ago, so as not to have too many moving parts, but about to try the new one.

[elad-bar]

External is not supported only:

• Audio
• Motion
• Connectivity (Watchdog)

By the way, external according to few forums is about to be replaced with the ONVIF option (which is also not supported)

[Linwood-F]

OK, that's from a manual trigger in blue iris, but let me go walk it and see what happens... Give me a few...

[elad-bar]

Configuration should look like:

[Linwood-F]

That's what I have, but when you do this to test it appears to change it to external:

And yes, if I actually walk it I get a detection. Sorry for the confusion, I thought that the BI test trigger should show as well, since that's kind of what it is for in a way. But now that I know, no issue I guess.

[elad-bar]

use the MQTT Explorer or any other tool to publish events to see how the component reacts, that's how it test it

[elad-bar]

can we close the issue?

[Linwood-F]

From my perspective yes, sorry for the confusion.

[elad-bar]

that's ok :)