Blue Iris and Google home hub

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Pete_Repeat

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Reading seems to suggest this is not possible but thought I'd ask..

I was hoping to buy a google home hub and show video feed from one of my ip cameras in the blue iris sever on motion or audio detection (baby cam)
At the moment I am using a nexus 7 on a wireless charger stand to do this. Blue iris detects the trigger, then sends an autoremote message using eventghost from the blueiris pc, then on the nexus tablet tasker opens blue iris and shows the baby baby camera feed. Then closes blue iris and goes back to sleep.

It works OK, although having a home hub would mean one device for Google assistant that also can be used for the display. Was hoping somehow I could cast the blue iris camera to the home hub and then stop the cast after a minute. I looked into autocast that may have been possible.

Nithing I have read indicated this will be possible.using blue iris. Only supported cameras would work directly with Google home hub but I wanted to use blue iris and my current dahua cam.
 
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I have found that using home assistant or using autocast can send the ip camera feed to the chromecast .. Except I can only make Motion jpg cast and that misses the sound and not a very good frame rate. On both ways... Hoping to get the h264 stream sent to chromecast from the blue iris Web server but I get a message saying it's the format is not supported by chromecast..
So only option with sound I've found is using tinycam and casting it but that app is a major drain on CPU of all my devices including the s9H even so not a great option (hoping not to need a device in the middle anyway)
 
Ok so I have now found the m3u8 feed works from the Blue iris Web server to the chromecast (actually a Google Home Hub) so can now cast with audio but... There is a large delay of 20 seconds for the video. Blue iris keep making the device connected sound but I assume that's part of the process when q device is streaming m3u8
 
Shame I can't find a way to get sound to the chromecast without a large delay. I saw someone using ffmpeg but they still using mjpg with no sound
 
I wouldn't think so.. But might check if I can cast a chrome tab to the google home hub. Hopefully it works with sound, but I don't have my high hopes.

I will be accessing the blue iris server in a chrome browser on my PC as per usual remote access and then cast the tab..

In saying this, using autocast on Android (using tasker) and home assistant on my raspberry pi seems to cast OK but only as mjpeg so no sound. Otherwise I'd be happy.
 
Thanks for reminding me. I have been held up with home renovations so the google home hub is packed away... Will try the tab casting in the next week or so.

At the moment I am leaning towards my nexus 7 2013 on a wireless charging stand which loads Blue Iris when motion is detected on the Blue Iris server PC. Anyone that wishes to do this I am happy to explain in more detail. The Home hub would be best for tidiness, but the nexus tablet has much more configuration/flexibility and with a video feed with sound and low latency.
 
Update: Casting the chrome tab does not work for me.

Only option that works is cast the mjpeg feed which has no sound or the m3u8 feed which has sound but an extensive delay...

For now I have run out of options and will stick with the tablet as the monitor, but hopefully in due time be able to utilise the home hub for the baby cam feed.
 
i'm also subscribing to this. I have a a couple Hub as well and would really like to see a solution for this.
 
dannieboiz said:
i'm also subscribing to this. I have a a couple Hub as well and would really like to see a solution for this.
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Do you need sound? As the mjpeg option works from Home Assistant on my raspberry pi, as well as Tasker on my android box.

I need sound and no delay, which is why I am a little stuck.
 
I also have the mjpeg from Home Assistant to chromecast working. But after 20 minutes, the chromecast stops showing the mjpeg. This is due to the chromecast timeout, because the state of the chromecast is 'paused' during the mjpeg viewing.

Do you have any ideas/suggestions in how to improve this? I have setup an automation in HA to restart the mjpeg, but this will give me about 2 seconds of black screen every 20 minutes. Not a very neat solution.
 
Taigar said:
I also have the mjpeg from Home Assistant to chromecast working. But after 20 minutes, the chromecast stops showing the mjpeg. This is due to the chromecast timeout, because the state of the chromecast is 'paused' during the mjpeg viewing.

Do you have any ideas/suggestions in how to improve this? I have setup an automation in HA to restart the mjpeg, but this will give me about 2 seconds of black screen every 20 minutes. Not a very neat solution.
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I am also experiencing exactly the same issue with the feed stopping after 20 minutes. Did you ever find a good solution or did you bodge it in HA with some repeating automation?

Thanks, Craig
 
how are you guys doing the mjpeg streaming to the home hub? on demand or is this a constant thing? I'd like to just be able to ask hub to show me a camera and get a feed. I could live without audio for now and only need like 5-10min of video even if a crappy frame rate. can that be done?
 
I'm using ifttt integration of google assistant to send a http get request to my Android box through autoinput which triggers to send the video feed from blue iris to the Google hub (autocast plugin). Little complicated but it works.

I previously used home assistant to do this but can't remember the details off the top of my head.

Not using home assistant (raspberry pi) or tasker (android) yet , well there's some reading to be done with my methods.
 
No, I've got 3 Nvidia shields which are essentially Android boxes. Just not understanding how that helps.

Yeah I guess finding a cheap camera that works natively with Google. Leave my good cameras for blueiris. Thought it would save on all that if I could just call up one of my driveway cams.
 
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