Blue Iris & Home Assistant No Motion MQTT Triggered

[kuramalt]

Hello,
I saw a similar post here but there was no solution provided. I setup my BI and HA using Blue Iris v5 as reference.
IP address is for my VM HA. MQTT Broker has a unique user ID on HA. Blue Iris also connect to BA with unique user ID on HA.

When I stand in front of my camera, the video is captured on BI with Person Detected. However, the HA motion binary node for this camera did not capture anything. I figured BI's MQTT didn't post to HA. Same result when I test trigger in BlueIris.
Wondering what I did wrong.
Thanks in advance.

 

[The Automation Guy]

Have you used something like MQTT Explorer to sniff the commands on the MQTT network? That's usually the easiest way to determine what is or is not being sent.

 

[kuramalt]

Have you used something like MQTT Explorer to sniff the commands on the MQTT network? That's usually the easiest way to determine what is or is not being sent.

I just downloaded MQTT Explorer, connected to MQTT Broker. It did sent to broker, but Home Assistant did not receive it?

 

[The Automation Guy]

I just downloaded MQTT Explorer, connected to MQTT Broker. It did sent to broker, but Home Assistant did not receive it?

That's what it looks like. This means it is probably a configuration issue with Home Assistant. (It's likely that HA received the command, but didn't know what to do with it due to the configuration issue).

 

[iwanttosee]

I assume you're using Mosquitto broker in HA? This is how mine is setup. Remember to reset the payload status to OFF so it can be trigger again later.