Recent content by whoami ™
-
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
TLDR: bi-mcp v0.3.1 is up on PyPI. Fixes the timeline tool so it actually returns data, and it now takes friendlier date inputs. No breaking changes, drop-in update. This one came out of someone forking the repo and testing it against Blue Iris 6.0.7.4. Good news there, no regressions found on... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
I use Opus 4.8 high and GPT 5.5 xhigh or high. I've tried to strategize using weaker models for somethings to save usage limits before I boke down and paid for Max, but in the end I don't think it was actually saving me anything because I just ended up with more things to fix, and waisted more... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
With the $20 plan its very hard. You have to ask Claude to kick off your 5hr limit 2-3hrs before you plan on coding (when you get off work ect). Then you can vibe code for 2-3hrs before your 5hr limit resets, then you basically get10hrs context packed into 4hrs of coding. You almost have to... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
@killerdan56 I saw your question this morning, realized the server had no clean way to pull an alert image, and went and built a tool for it today. So yes, it can do it now. The way it works is you give it a camera and a time like "pull the alert from SecCam_4 around 7:15pm" and it finds the... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
LOL that I'm the only one commenting in my own thread... one day someone else will get it... but i was so impressed by this MCP today I couldn't help myself but to share this... I had mini tornado rip through my neighbor hood yesterday so my wife asked me to pull 5mins of video from all... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
I wanted to give Claude spatial awareness of my property so it could reason about which cameras should fire together when something moves through the yard. This works for anyone running the bi-mcp server because Claude can pull each camera's config, motion sensitivity, AI zones and alert history... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
Quick update for anyone watching this thread: bi-mcp 0.2.0 is now on PyPI. You can install it with pipx install bi-mcp (or uv tool install bi-mcp) instead of the git+https://... form from the first post. Same code, same tools, just easier to grab. Nothing has changed about how it runs or what... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
Update: I went ahead and pushed it. Repo is at https://github.com/whoamiTM/bi-mcp Important caveat up front: this is built and tested against Blue Iris 5.9.9.71 only. v6 is out but I'm not planning to update my own install until the end of the year, so I won't be testing against it until then... -
bi-mcp: a Blue Iris MCP server for Claude Code / LLMs (read + control via the JSON API)
Posting this in the AI subforum on purpose, since the audience here is more likely to actually have opinions on agent tooling than the general Blue Iris room. Curious how many folks here are using Claude Code (or any LLM agent) with MCP servers. I've been building one over the last few weeks... -
Combining ONVIF & Motion Sensor & AI
I seem to be having good luck using a clone for my PTZ, I have the clone doing AI alerts and the master doing the PTZ movements to preset which are called by the spotters. The only reason for the clone is so I can use "Skip alerts while this preset is active" on the master so the PTZ doesn't get...- whoami ™
- Post #3
- Forum: General BI Talk
-
Decoding integer fields in Alerts\OnTrigger registry — does a community reference exist?
@jaydeel — this is gold, thank you. That's a huge chunk of the BI .reg surface decoded in one post, and it lined up with the empirical values I'd been seeing in my own exports almost exactly. I just landed all of it in the MCP server. Now decoded: web_proto1 — 0=http, 1=https, 2=mqtt (good to... -
I don't think a "Smart Home" and Home Automation is the same thing
I guess it all comes down to skill level and the types of thing a person is exposed to. I would put my HomeAssistant setup in the top 10%, and there are some things I run on the cloud. But I also have a segregated network behind pfsense with white listed firewall rules and intrusion detection...- whoami ™
- Post #3
- Forum: Home Automation
-
Decoding integer fields in Alerts\OnTrigger registry — does a community reference exist?
I'm kind of excited about this MCP server, I would have it finished, but I have to build it in stages because I'm not paying for extra usage credits for this. I'm obviously running this thing in Claude Code. I believe this thing is going to be POWERFUL, its hard at this point to imagine all the... -
Decoding integer fields in Alerts\OnTrigger registry — does a community reference exist?
I've been building an MCP server (bi-mcp) that lets an AI agent read Blue Iris config from the camera .reg exports, including the per-camera action sets under Alerts\OnTrigger\<N> and Alerts\OnReset\<N>. Most of the schema is self-explanatory once you've seen a few exports — web_path... -
Does TinyCam support deep links that could be used with Home Assistant Android TV Remote intergration?
The androidtv_remote integration doesn't have an ADB command service — it only supports remote.turn_on with a URI/activity. So the only working call without ADB is: action: remote.turn_on target: entity_id: remote.shieldtv_lr data: activity...