The bit about making sensors out of motion alerts still works. That’s basically what I did. I wasn’t really interested in pure motion ones so I tweaked it to make sensors for person, animal and sound alerts. But it’s all the same process:
- Add an “on alert” action in Blue Iris
- Tweak conditions at the top to your needs
- Send
ONto a topic that contains your camera name (or just use the placeholder&CAMso you can copy and paste it all over) - Add an on reset action to send
OFFto the same topic - Make an MQTT sensor out of it in HA
I have no idea if the “getting your cameras in a dashboard” bit works. I didn’t bother with that, I just view my cameras in Blue Iris since I like their interface and I want to be able to view timelines and clips too. Though if that part doesn’t work for you there is also this guide:
The other guide I found extremely useful was this one as these notifications with an image is what I really wanted:
I should also note that although the author shows it with Node RED that’s really not required. This post shows how to do it purely from HA by copying and pasting a few lines of YAML.