Triggers - Smart Plan or Blue Iris

[Mike Baglini]

I'm now in the process of making the cameras useful. Do you setup tripwires or intrusion spaces in the cameras, using the Smart Plan, and configure Triggers in Blue Iris to use the ONVIF/camera events source, or do you use configure Motion Sensor in Blue Iris, or can you have both as sources? Which is more effective. Really just concerned about getting alerts when humans or vehicles enter a space, as we get lots of wildlife, so perhaps the AI features of the camera would be better in my case. Curious what the experienced guys use. Thanks

 

[wittaj]

In your case you want to setup the IVS triggers for human and vehicles in the camera and then pull them into BI.

Since you decided to go with the camera AI, then set up the IVS rules within the camera and let it do its thing!

Go into the camera and set up smart plan with IVS, then go to the IVS screen and draw IVS rules (tripwire or intrusion box) and then select the AI you want it to trigger on (human or vehicle).

Then in BI, there are a few places you need to set this up in BI (assuming you already set up the IVS rules in the camera GUI):

In Camera configure setting check the box "Get ONVIF triggers".

Hit Find/Inspect on the camera setting to pull the coding for the triggers.

Go into Motion Setting and select the "Cameras digital input" box.

On the Alerts tab uncheck the Motions Zones tab (those are alerting you to any BI motion in those areas in Zones A thru H)

On the alerts tab set up how to be notified.

 

[Mike Baglini]

Oh wow, that's great. Not all those steps were obvious to me. Thanks for the help!