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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 "Blue Iris NVR" and install

Integration settings

Basic configuration (Configuration -> Integrations -> Add BlueIris)
Fields name Type Required Default Description
Host Texbox + None Hostname or IP address of the BlueIris server
Port Textbox + 0 HTTP Port to access BlueIris server
SSL Check-box + Unchecked Is SSL supported?
Username Textbox - Username of admin user for BlueIris server
Password Textbox - Password of admin user for BlueIris server
Integration options (Configuration -> Integrations -> BlueIris Integration -> Options)
Fields name Type Required Default Description
Host Texbox + ast stored hostname Hostname or IP address of the BlueIris server
Port Textbox + 0ast stored port HTTP Port to access BlueIris server
SSL Check-box + Last stored SSL flag Is SSL supported?
Username Textbox - Last stored username Username of admin user for BlueIris server
Password Textbox - Last stored password Password of admin user for BlueIris server
Clear credentials Check-box + Unchecked Workaround to clear the username & password since there is not support for optional fields (Not being stored under options)
Generate configurations Check-box + Unchecked Will take generate store and configuration for HA, more details below (Not being stored under options)
Log level Drop-down + Default Changes component's log level (more details below)
Reset components settings to default Check-box + Unchecked Will reset drown-downs of componet's creation to their default (Not being stored under options)
Camera components Drop-down - All camera Will create camera for each of the chosen camera
Motion sensors Drop-down - All non-system camera Will create binary sensor for each of the chosen camera
Connectivity sensors Drop-down - All non-system camera Will create connectivity binary sensor for each of the chosen camera
Audio sensors Drop-down - All audio supported non-system camera Will create audio binary sensor for each of the chosen camera
Profile switches Drop-down - All profiles Will create switch for each of the chosen profiles
Stream type Drop-down - H264 Defines the stream type H264 / MJPG
Stream support Check-box - False Defines whether to use Stream component for preview camera, requires restart to affect

Integration's title Title will be extracted from BlueIris server's configuration, it will be set upon adding the server, and after every Option's change

Note that in case there are 2 integrations with the same integration's title, components will be overwritten by both integrations.

Log Level's drop-down New feature to set the log level for the component without need to set log_level in customization: and restart or call manually logger.set_level and loose it after restart.

Upon startup or integration's option update, based on the value chosen, the component will make a service call to logger.set_level for that component with the desired value,

In case Default option is chosen, flow will skip calling the service, after changing from any other option to Default, it will not take place automatically, only after restart

Control component's creation New feature to control which of the components will be created:

  • Sensors drop-down will be available only when MQTT component is defined
  • Audio sensors drop-down will include only audio support non-system camera
  • Connectivity and Motion sensors will be created only for non-system camera
  • Profile's drop-down will be available only when admin user's credentials set to the integration
  • Once configuration manually changed, new camera that will be added will require manually setting configuration
  • To restore defaults which allows automatically adding new camera, check the check-box of Reset components settings to default
Auto-generating configurations files:

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

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 ({host}) already configured
  • Invalid administrator credentials - credentials are invalid or user is not an admin
  • Invalid server details - Cannot reach the server
Encryption key got corrupted

If a persistent notification popped up with the following message:

Encryption key got corrupted, please remove the integration and re-add it

It means that encryption key was modified from outside the code, Please remove the integration and re-add it to make it work again.

Components

Binary Sensor - Alerts

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

Represents whether the camera is online or not (based on MQTT message)

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

Represents whether the camera is triggered for noise or not (based on MQTT message)

Binary Sensor - Motion - Non-system-camera

Represents whether the camera is triggered for motion or not (based on MQTT message)

Binary Sensor - DIO - Non-system-camera

Represents whether the camera is triggered for digital I/O event or not (based on MQTT message)

Binary Sensor - External - Non-system-camera

Represents whether the camera is triggered for external / ONVIF event 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)

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

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

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.

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