BI6 and Home Assistant - server_all_cameras gone

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BBQFreak

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Jul 13, 2023
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I have the BI integration on Home assistant and since upgrading to BI6 the entity <servername>_all_cameras is no longer there. Is there any way to get this back? I used to have the all cameras that shows them as a big tile and a different all cameras that alternated through cameras one at a time.

Thanks for any help.
 
Sidenote question:
how is the Blue Iris integration into Home Assistant? suitable for use? cool? aweful?
Didn't know 1 existed.
I know of the Dahua individual camera integration, but not the Blue Iris.
 
Holbs said:
Sidenote question:
how is the Blue Iris integration into Home Assistant? suitable for use? cool? aweful?
Didn't know 1 existed.
I know of the Dahua individual camera integration, but not the Blue Iris.
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It's pretty good - I use it and a mix of MQTT to do automations and monitor various camera groups from different locations in the house.
 
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BBQFreak said:
I managed to fix it - in the Blue Iris integration configuration I had to re-check boxes to include the all cameras and all cameras cycle as included entities.
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Sounds like it was the result of the capitalization change.
 
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Holbs said:
Sidenote question:
how is the Blue Iris integration into Home Assistant? suitable for use? cool? aweful?
Didn't know 1 existed.
I know of the Dahua individual camera integration, but not the Blue Iris.
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It was mostly junk-y the last time I tried it. If you set things up correctly, I've found its far superior to just use a webpage view within a HA tab. Of course this doesnt help with automations, but you can just use MQTT/API/etc.
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singularity42 said:
It was mostly junk-y the last time I tried it. If you set things up correctly, I've found its far superior to just use a webpage view within a HA tab. Of course this doesnt help with automations, but you can just use MQTT/API/etc.
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since Blue Iris already does MQTT, that covers most of all automations I can think of.
I have spare Pi's laying around... even some older i3 NUC's that I can just simply slap UI3 on as a source for TV or something.
I'll figure something sweet out :)

Just spent a good $3k this December for home automation stuff. New NUC for home assistant, z-wave roller shades, sensors bleh bleh bleh. Even new Ubiquiti USG - Ultra that I have to rebuild / cleanup some network stuff on.
Should be an interesting next 3 months.
 
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