Recent content by thewolf56

So, I tried a different MQTT topic and payload that I had read as a possibility and it still didn't work. After a few days, it started working out of nowhere and even tried it on a 2nd camera (this time, it only took a couple of hours for it to work) What worked this time: Home Assistant: I...

I found the error that was posted in MQTT Exception in message_received when handling msg on ‘BI/courtyard_camera/alert-image-b64’: ‘b’{ “camera”:“Courtyard”, “time”:“20231102_105157”, “dbid”:"" }’’ Traceback (most recent call last): File...

No, it is still not working. I've tried posting in a few different places, but still no help has been forthcoming. I did check the MQTT logs when trying to test and it was an error I've never seen before. I'm away from my computer right now, but I'll see if I can dig it up.

A while back, I tried to setup Blue Iris and Home Assistant through the Blue Iris Integration in Home Assistant and MQTT to send me notifications through Home Assistant with the Blue Iris alert image attached. I had no success at the time, so I settled for setting up binary sensors (some with...

You can setup the Dahua VTOs to connect to an external SIP server. They default to having the SIP server internal to the VTO, so that a VTH can connect to it from inside the building for the intercom package. I have had a different VTO for a while on my test bench (just haven't run the POE...

Will do. I also modified your script to add the current UV Index as well and I might add the daily max UV Index, but I'm already out of macro slots in BI.

Thank you very much for this @jaydeel and @Chris Moore . My weather has not updated through BI Tools since 04/11/2022 (last modified date in my txt folder) and I had taken off the video overlay a while back because of the outdated information. While I was able to get this script working pretty...

Okay, I think you may be correct on the wired LAN. I set that part up a long time ago, so I may have used the dahua toolbox to change it. I had it working with Blue Iris a long time before I figured out how to get the SIP server setting. I also only use the wired LAN. For the RTSP, I looked...

It's pretty good, You used to be able to add it to Home Assistant as a custom add-on, but the developer moved it over to gitlab a while back and there is no way to add it directly to Home Assistant now. I moved over to an unRAID setup a few months ago when my VBOX VM crashed with no hope of...

I run my cameras, including the VTO, on a separate VLAN as well that is blocked from the internet. I had some issues with the intercom portion as well when I first started, but not the camera functionality. When I set a static IP, I do so by making a DHCP reservation in my firewall and not at...

I did get it working with freePBX. I also have it integrated into Home Assistant using DavuaVTO2MQTT in a Docker container so I can get notifications to phones and announced through an Echo Dot when someone presses the doorbell button. I don't know the exact RTSP stream URL. I just typed in...

Sorry I missed this. My Home Assistant VM took a dive (using VirtualBox on Windows 10 and using virtualbox as a service). I had the backups, but ended up using a fresh installation of HomeAssistant as a VM on an UnRaid microserver. Significantly more stable that way, but still have to add a...

I wouldn't say I have a lot of experience with it, yet. I have had it for a few months, but on a test bench. I'm testing it with freePBX as the SIP server and have done some fun things such as custom ringbacks that automatically change with holidays, events, etc. Also using SIP softphones to...

That is interesting. I have all sounds disabled in the VTO except for ringback sounds. I thought I had read the custom upload sounds need to meet specific formatting requirements. Did you make sure they are not too big or otherwise meet the parameters?

That has been there for years (at least 4 of them). It's never in stock.