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.
 
Do you remember what your BI version was before that?

They recently renamed the all cameras group from "Index" to "index" (first letter was capital, now lower case) so the integration might need updated to accommodate.
 
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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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