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It's been a while since I checked mine - I was a stout user of Wunderground - ultimately I centralized - My smarthome is Hubitat - I connected to openweathermap - then I take the variables I'm tracking (Lux and a few others and store them into Hubitat variables, write them to a text file, then...

Not to be a downer - but since gen 3 echo show's I've not been able. I went back to 5, 8 and 10" for my needs. I did a short writeup of the finding of the new OS (gen 3 and up) and Amazon changed the security and other things - I was never capable of getting it to work, even with Amazon's...

Love to share - and nothing so complicated - Since the driver exists in Hubitat as a Device - it's simple to look at the current device and see all the value key pairs - thats were I created the screen cap above in white. Then, using a Rule written in Hubitat I push the values I want into a text...

My experience with WU was picking a solid station was important. Regardless, I also 'import' data from OpenWeatherMap service to supplement needed data. Here you can see the last 2 values are from OWM : I need the Luminosity as it defines the on/off for lights in my smart home. I display it...

wow - this seems like you're going down a hole to me. My gut says turn everything off - start a sniffer like Dude and check every IP. the PTZ is ssdp only? never heard of that. it's got an IP. Isolate and verify. Is it possible you've TWO dhcp servers? your ISP router and an server or...

"Using fixed cams as spotters"... wow interesting. So BI trigger events? hmmm.... have to think about that. In the meantime, does anyone here actually use motion following? Still too pricey for non-commerical/residential? I saw one at Sec conference last year and it was ...uuumazing...

And a 'why I outta' to the the guy who posted PTZ's are never looking the right way. um... While checking for intruders in my neighbors bedroom with my 30x digital... I can count hairs. I love having pTZ my friend! Now if we could just get UV light to work > 100m... my quarter mile vision...

Getting in line to flame the poster - besides all the optimization- I've always found the build IN vs build OUT paradigm to work better for this kind of thing. Knowing the stream rates, compression types and data volume sets a number of factors - how much data to manage, how fast the storage...

Bored, I was flipping through postings and saw this - I can't tell if the OP got resolved, and I see the thread go off on a couple tangents :) That said - one problem I've seen over the years is the default of many cameras coming from China etc are on the 192.168.0.x subnet. If you...

I'll take a shot at this - there was previous discussion in this thread about 'RunAsService' - during setup you need to specify an Admin account. Thats one way. Another way is to use Task Schedule and set an Admin account - that too should bypass the security check. Finally...

Just a suggestion - I did read a manual that says the default is admin/123. (Sketchy but try that first!) The manufacturer says V380 app is your best bet. Then try the obvious (admin/admin, admin/[empty], Admin/admin, admin/password, root/root, admin/1234) - try using the Onvif tool as an...

LOL! I once considered doing FB marketplace to get rid of some of my cameras - I still have 30-50 in boxes, I took one look at the rack and decided it wasn't worth it - trying to sell one off cameras to non camera people ... so my rack full just sits and gathers dust.

I knew the company president well - when he brought me in he explained what i was building was going to be a model that was going to replace 13 other mens prisons and 8 womens prisons in the state. The dollar amounts being thrown around, with all the service contracts, maint etc... it was...

omg. the fallout was horrendous. I was lucky I was a contractor - so I got free of that mess. honestly, I dont' know what happened to the environment. I wanted to get my hands on the 10g switches and the 10G PCie cards for the servers. But that was 2 years ago. In the end I escaped with my...

fun question - don't get to brag very often. One installation I built was running 346 cameras. :) Most are 1080p but some are 4k. about 10% are ptz. I built a prison system - technically I got called in after the initial installer botched it. Throughput problems. Got to implement a 10G...

Ha. and today - BI Tools gave no results... Jinxed myself! crap! update: Went on my server and looked at BI logs, Did a manual update and got no result! Checked my network, (nothing improper), went back and checked again. It worked. Went to Wunderground.com and got a partial loaded page...

No troubles here - and like my predecessor posted - no doubt tomorrow i'll be asking the same question!

I haven't used profiles much over the years - tbh. However, like what is in the Help on page 184, you can modify the inbound file with an external app like the output from a weather page like I am doing and reference it in your overlay. Since there are 99 macros, one possibility (a bit...

Years back when I was building my first Plex server I wanted to run it as a service - I found multiple ways to do it, and as I recall I did it with this: RunAsService - Run your application as a windows service. - was easy to use.

You clipped that off - what version are you? can you manually install it? stop the BITS service/app first ... its running in the task tray.

VLC also can be set to stream and then captured. It took a lot of experimentation - and it was simpler to use DesktopCamera app (I didn't buy, just the trial) but it worked great. VLC will let you control the framerate, I couldn't do that with the DesktopCamera software. But the Onvif device...

Nice! You gave me a splendid idea - I created a 'blank' camera and set the overlays for images the same way - snagging images and create a camera stream that actually only has updates in it from the stock market and baseball scores! Then I added that camera as a dashboard feed back into Hubitat...

thanks for the replies! I will say I've got it solved. it's not elegant but I'll detail it here in hopes it helps another. First - BITools or BITs is awesome and I love this little item! I use Hubitat as the center of my smart home. This product has an add on (community written) that connects...

what a struggle - and still no success. Your suggestion was in the ballpark I was already exploring but I never did succeed. Here's my problem: I use Hubitat for a smart home foundation. They have no file accessibility externally. I'm using a driver called OpenWeatherMap to access the values...

I'm attempting to control lighting and other features in my smart home with luminescence. It is working beautifully by pulling values from OpenWeatherMap. One item I'd like to have is the ability to see the outdoor luminescence in my BI Tools overlay. I see the UV index (which doesn't ever...

an RTSP stream on port 80? that seems VERY odd. RTSP is normally on 554. JPG is not supported and the string should not include user name paramaters. thats handled in the authentication. Be sure to put the correct case in user/pass fields in monocle.

Update: During my previous post - I made a mistatement about Monocle. I said there are 2 ways to run it - and this was true but I described it incorrectly. The simple, basic way to get Monocle to run is this: Use the MonocleCam.com website, setup an account then setup cameras. These cameras...

I've worked on this extensively and had a flawless environment for about a year. Now I've broken it. I run Multiple Alexa's - Dot's and Show's. When I was first building out, I used the BI interface to 'connect to amazon echo'. it worked originally on the Echo show 5 (about 3 yrs back) but...

I moved to Hubitat (HE) nearly 2 years ago - my dev work on Smartthings was always so limited and the requirements of internet was a pain. Hubitat being local vs any cloud based hub is a clear no - brainer! Once I moved all my services local - lights, motion etc were all near instantaneous...

In my smart home, I'm pulling Lux value using OpenWeatherMap. However, it would be great to have Lux on the camera overlay. Also, has anyone used BI Tools to feed values to a smarthome directly? It's not critical but would be cool.