Hello,
I am wondering if its possible to filter the MQTT command to different zones within Blue Iris to trigger different events.
Example
Zone D: is the front door and if there is motion to turn on the front door light only.
Zone E: is the walkway to the front gate from the front door and if the motion goes from Zone D to and Zone E then turn on the other lights at the front of the house and Vice versa
is this possible ? or is there another way to get this to work if you cant filter MQTT for different zones.
Thank you.
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This is possible but you need tensor flow, or some image processing functionality.
I’m way way late to this conversation, but I only started with HA a couple of weeks ago, been focused on Blue Iris topics in these forums for a few hours, and just now registered so I could reply as I haven’t seen an answer to your question. In your settings for “ALERT” you can use one of Blue Iris’ macros - in this case &TYPE does the trick. I’ve verified that the incoming payload come in as MOTION A or even MOTION AB if you have an alert setup specifically for motion that begins in zone A and crosses into zone B. This is as far as I’ve gotten however. My biggest challenge with HA itself is MQTT. Just having difficulties getting a good grasp on how it all works. Possibly of interest as well, though I haven’t confirmed this will work yet, I have the free license for the ALPR module in Blue Iris (limited to 2500 lookup/month). When it reads a plate, the alert will be the normal alert but with a space character and then the plate appended. So something like MOTION A ABC1234. It would make my life just a little nicer if I could scrape the plate and trigger an action based on a hit.
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