Blue Iris - New Camera Seen in Device List - Not in Picture Glance

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I added a new camera to Blue Iris, and can see it listed in the Blue Iris devices after reloading the Blue Iris integration. But when I try to show this camera on a Picture Glance card, it doesn’t show up as an optional device. How do I get a new camera to show?

Update: Looking closely at the new camera device, there are only 5 entities listed, such as audio, DIO, motion, etc., but not an entity associated with the video stream itself, as my other cameras all show 6 entities. I tried disabling and re-enabling the device, and no luck. Oddly, if I choose to show a group including the new camera, its stream shows up in the Glance card. Still haven’t found a way to get the missing entity to be included in HA as a standalone camera.

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There is no blue iris integration, it integrates through MQTT. So you’d need to ensure the discovery info (or configuration for mqtt) is correct for the camera

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There is a BI integration through HACS GitHub - elad-bar/ha-blueiris: Integration with Blue Iris Video Security Software

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That integration appears to create the MQTT discovery for the user. So, verify that the camera exists in the MQTT integration.

EDIT: Maybe not. It may use the BI api. If that’s the case, you’d want to verify that the integration is creating the camera entity.

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I’m not the OP, just happened across this post and thought I’d try to help. I do use BI, though; to the best of my recollection you do not need to use MQTT at all to use BI with HA if you use the HACS integration, though.

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Update: Looking closely at the new camera device, there are only 5 entities listed, such as audio, DIO, motion, etc., but not an entity associated with the video stream itself, as my other cameras all show 6 entities. I tried disabling and re-enabling the device, and no luck. Oddly, if I choose to show a group including the new camera, its stream shows up in the Glance card. Still haven’t found a way to get the missing entity to be included in HA as a standalone camera.

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Have you tried going to the devices and integrations, blue iris integration, tap/click the cog behind your BI instance name, scroll down and check if the camera is enabled under “camera components” drop down list.

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Many thanks, Sarge! That was the solution. Much appreciated!

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This solution was useful, thank you. I also had an additional related problem with the Home Assistant Blue Iris Integration configuration and it didn’t show up in the integration no matter how many times the integration was reloaded. I had failed to assign a new camera to a group in Blue Iris, but upon assigning the camera to a group (such as Outside in my case), then restarting the Blue Iris service, and then restarting the Home Assistant integration, the camera was visible in the integration under camera components (use the cog wheel icon) and it could be selected. I hope this helps some one else.

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The past weeks I have been fiddling with some motion detection and stuff, every time I tried to reload it, it would come up blank. I’d need to restart home assistant to get anything to show.

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I’ve seen this issue, too. Any time Blue Iris gets a software update or goes offline, the HA has to be reloaded for it to reconnect to BI, to show the cameras within the Glance cards.