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It's not too hard to push all the LPR data to an external database. I'm running Node Red on my Blue Iris machine and MySQL on a Raspberry Pi to do this, but if you have enough CPU horsepower everything could be run on the one BI machine. I have searchable tag data and alert images back to...

That was back in January, and I don't remember other than my next post later that day which was: "Working for me again after upgrading to 5.6.9,2"

If the company allows the Tailscale app on your phone, you can run the client there and on the BI machine and use Tailscale to connect. I just started using Tailscale, although not for BI access as I have BI's web server exposed to the internet via port forwarding and an NGINX proxy on my...

@mrtoast See this thread: Node Red Dashboard for Blue Iris ALPR

Under the heading of "More options, more better" If you want to use Grafana instead of Node Red to search and display the images, you can do that too. This Grafana dashboard uses the Dynamic Image Panel plugin. It displays the images within the selected timeframe using the 'tag' search box at...

What makes it better or worse? The note in the manual from when immediate actions was added to BI says "A new action set “immediate actions” has been added to the Trigger tab in camera settings. This action set runs before alert AI confirmation." I have mine set to only alert on DayPlate and...

I guess it works either way, but that isn't where I have my MQTT alert configured. I have it in Alerts -> On Alert -> Web Request or MQTT.

So I asked Blue Iris support: and the response was:

Are you running NVIDIA CUDA or a built-in Intel GPU? Those response times seem really long. I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 with 2 GiB of RAM and mostly get sub 100ms responses, with the slowest ones still around 500ms. I think I'm on the latest version of BI and CPAI and I'm only using...

I had some similar issues and in my case Blue Iris support said the AI return can be discarded if it comes back too late. The image with the license plate is at T+0, and the last image was at T+2000, which makes sense for your settings of 10 images @ 200ms. But the response time for that T+0...

I don't disagree that Blue Iris should be flexible to accommodate different use cases. Since I'm using Plate Recognizer and don't have unlimited image analyses, I can't (or at least, I don't want to pay more for) multiple images per alert to be analyzed, so I'll never have a 'highest confidence'...

I would be really surprised to see any sort of post-processing built into Blue Iris, unless there is some way to crowd-source the algorithms that would be needed to identify which of the thousands of US license plate designs is in the image and then pattern match the letters/numbers based on...

There's still space being reserved for the invisible calendar icon, which is causing your from: date to get cut off. Try changing the template node in the LPR Mobile flow to this: and see if that looks better.

Someone asked for a list of all the nodes that are used in these flows, as some of them are not packaged with the standard install of Node Red. These are all the items listed in the palette in my Node Red. node-red node-red-contrib-fs-ops node-red-contrib-moment node-red-contrib-sqlstring...

Take a look at the V2 version I uploaded a little while ago. It gets rid of the "Database Search" title, fits the from/to dates on one line, and hides the date picker icons. That gives you a little more vertical room for the data table. I added the updated version screenshot to the original post.

Since the original Node Red LPR dashboard doesn't work well on small screens, I created a separate UI tab for use on my phone. The attached flow json is for a mobile-scale version of the dashboard. I'm using a Pixel 5a. Depending on your phone resolution you might have to tweak the element...

I meant that using MQTT to get the tag was a win over trying to extract the tag from the alert image. My old method also relied on being able to read the file locally, but it was pulling the tag out of the jpeg EXIF data. Do you want to share your Node Red flow and the structure of your MQTT...

Are all of your alert images in a single folder under Blue Iris? As in, are they NOT in subfolders for each camera? If so, try putting the source path for the Blue Iris alerts folder in the source path box in the copy node. Enter it just like the destination path is entered. If that works, you...

Yes, you want the web server pointed to that folder, so when you go to http://web_server_ip:port/name_of_alert_image.jpg your browser displays the image. You'll put the same URL in the "Set URL Here" node on the dashboard flow... minus the "name_of_alert_image.jpg"... so...

Sorry. I must have messed up the export. Here is the flow, and I tried importing to it verify all the nodes are included. It should look like this: For anyone new to Node Red, you don't need those debug nodes. Once everything is working you can delete them or just click the green rectangle...

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I'm breaking this off into it's own thread since I expect as more people try this, the same questions will come up - thanks to my near total lack of details in the instructions :-) For anyone finding this thread, most of what you need to get up to speed is in this post: Blue Iris and...

Now someone skimming this thread is going to email Blue Iris support and ask why their AI tab doesn't look like yours!

I can email it to Ken, but I doubt he'd want to support it being done this way, with so many external applications. Maybe he can produce similar results inside Blue Iris application without too much effort. He already has the internal database with the reads. He would just have to have a way of...

Magic :) You can probably start here and work backwards. Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR. The post just before that one links back to the earlier ones. It may just be easier to try to update everything in this post, as things changed incrementally, so here you go: This isn't a...

As others noted, not mandatory,but depending on your setup, even a relatively low power GPU can make a difference. I am running this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0711NWFJX/ (it was $150 when I bought it, down to $99 now). It runs off the PCIe bus power without needing any other power...

I believe it is related to an issue I reported where the images were delayed in being sent to the AI for analysis. Even though I had selected 100ms or 200ms between images, it was taking over 500ms. It doesn't sound like that would have any effect on playback in UI3.

It's a locally hosted notification server. The phone app is Android-only, so if you're an iOS user, you can stop reading here. - Gotify · a simple server for sending and receiving messages To use it you need to: have a DDNS or fixed IP to connect back from the internet, set up your router...

Earlier in the thread I posted a Node Red flow to check plate reads for matches and send alerts. Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR. I noted I found a little time to play with it, and the results are below. It could probably be more elegant, but it should get the job done. The plate information...

I assume license-plates is the AI object and Plates is the OCR/ALPR text? That seems like a good idea if CPAI LPR is checking the text on each image. I'm using Plate Recognizer, so only a single image per alert is analyzed for plate reading, and that enhancement wouldn't be relevant in my...