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    Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

    I'm using Blue Iris + Home Assistant + Elk M1 for my system. Just need to either build an esp32 weather station or buy one.
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    Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

    I'm using a script to get the weather information into the macros for BI 5. I've been using the script ever since we had issues with not having an API key. It really wasn't that hard to setup, although I did have some issues at first of getting the script to auto run with the task scheduler...
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    Any Tutorials Available for Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI?

    I have been running Blue Iris for quite a few years and had Deepstack running well on my machine. I recently updated BI and decided to try CodeProject AI as a replacement for Deepstack, but I am getting horrible delays with my notifications (I'm mainly using Home Assistant for my notifications...
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    Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

    So, I got tired of Wunderground not working again, so I found this old thread that I had used a couple of years ago. I updated the script and setup a task using windows task scheduler to update every 15 minutes. https://ipcamtalk.com/threads/api-connection-down.67974/post-744271 If anyone...
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    No problem. I was very frustrated when I could not get it to work for me. I tried using payloads that had a lot more information in them using templates, but I had to just try and copy and hope they worked (they didn't). Now that I have started using templates more in Home Assistant (and...
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    No problem. There are other tutorials out there, but never worked for mine. Had to work this one out on my own and may be missing some stuff.
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    @TJ Martin Sorry, I didn't get to my PC over the weekend. 1st, in my Home Assistant configuration.yaml, I added the line: mqtt: !include mqtt.yaml After restarting Home Assistant, I created an mqtt.yaml file (/homeassistant/mqtt.yaml) and added this code (where my camera's Short name is...
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    You do need an automation to take a snapshot of the MQTT camera and save it local to Home Assistant in a folder as one of the first actions in the automation and another action in the automation to actually send the jpeg to your phone. The way mine is setup, there are a few moving parts and I'm...
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    So, I tried a different MQTT topic and payload that I had read as a possibility and it still didn't work. After a few days, it started working out of nowhere and even tried it on a 2nd camera (this time, it only took a couple of hours for it to work) What worked this time: Home Assistant: I...
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    I found the error that was posted in MQTT Exception in message_received when handling msg on ‘BI/courtyard_camera/alert-image-b64’: ‘b’{ “camera”:“Courtyard”, “time”:“20231102_105157”, “dbid”:"" }’’ Traceback (most recent call last): File...
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    No, it is still not working. I've tried posting in a few different places, but still no help has been forthcoming. I did check the MQTT logs when trying to test and it was an error I've never seen before. I'm away from my computer right now, but I'll see if I can dig it up.
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    MQTT payload issues (jpeg images) from Blue Iris. Maybe a Post issue?

    A while back, I tried to setup Blue Iris and Home Assistant through the Blue Iris Integration in Home Assistant and MQTT to send me notifications through Home Assistant with the Blue Iris alert image attached. I had no success at the time, so I settled for setting up binary sensors (some with...
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    Difference between Dahua VTO2301R-P and the larger VTO2201F-P?

    You can setup the Dahua VTOs to connect to an external SIP server. They default to having the SIP server internal to the VTO, so that a VTH can connect to it from inside the building for the intercom package. I have had a different VTO for a while on my test bench (just haven't run the POE...
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    API connection down

    Will do. I also modified your script to add the current UV Index as well and I might add the daily max UV Index, but I'm already out of macro slots in BI.
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    API connection down

    Thank you very much for this @jaydeel and @Chris Moore . My weather has not updated through BI Tools since 04/11/2022 (last modified date in my txt folder) and I had taken off the video overlay a while back because of the outdated information. While I was able to get this script working pretty...
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