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I only run BI in VMs. I don't have any of my BI installations on dedicated hardware. It works pretty good I have to say.
I have tried really hard to get Ken to add Only Record on Ext so I'm guessing he will not consider Only Record on Confirmation or something like that. His view is that BI was developed to record anything that triggers to avoid missing anything. I run all my cameras with a Clone to resolve the issue but for the life of me I do not understand Ken's reluctance to offer the facility.Changed my setup last night to go purely with BI only. Everything is working great. The only capability that's missing compared to running AI tool that I can think of is only recording a clip when the AI has detected a selected object. Right now you'll still record a ton of clips if an a-hole spider decides to build a nest in front of your lens. Would be awesome if there was a checkbox on the Record tab to only record when Deepstack has confirmed an object.
I have tried really hard to get Ken to add Only Record on Ext so I'm guessing he will not consider Only Record on Confirmation or something like that. His view is that BI was developed to record anything that triggers to avoid missing anything. I run all my cameras with a Clone to resolve the issue but for the life of me I do not understand Ken's reluctance to offer the facility.
Personally for me it would be the icing on the cake maybe even the cherry. I would love to get rid of all the clones.Yeah, this is exactly how I had it setup before with AI Tools, with cloned cameras. I still went full in with BI's built-in support simply because it eliminates so much of the extra clutter, and not having to worry about logging into the machine to make sure AI Tools is running after a reboot.
I agree though it would be awesome if Ken would reconsider the Only Record on Confirmation option.
You don't need to start deepstack manually this is done from the start/stop option in the AI tab within BI. You can confirm deepstack is running by opening 127.0.0.1: port) in a browser. This assumes you are running deepstack on the same machine as BI. From your command line example above you would use 127.0.0.1:83.Anyone know why if I run deepstack I just get this window?
But if I run command prompt and paste in this:
deepstack --VISION-DETECTION True --PORT 83
It works as long as I keep command window open
Typo ; )
Seriously, BI developer doesn't read this. Email to him if you want.
NetTime - Network Time Synchronization ToolI am just super excited to see Deepstack integrated with Blue Iris. On the surface, this is a huge add-on. I'm sure some tweaks and glitches to work through with future updates to make it even better.
I ran Deepstack with 3rd party tools for a couple months and it did the job surprisingly well. Though, Deepstack did detect a bush as a person, but hay.... maybe it was a person hiding in foliage! After a heavy snowfall event with the CPU spiking upto 75%+ (I had Windows Deepstack on same machine as Blue Iris), I found out how Dahua AI cameras in the 5442 series was just as fantastic without spiking the CPU. However, I still have 8 non-AI cameras that will have to rely on Deepstack AI (5231's and 4231's).
This is add-on only makes Blue Iris even better and more useful.
I did ask Ken to someday include a Blue Iris NTP server for those who wish to totally lock down their camera LAN from the outside world. He said naw
Hmmm I had my back yard set to just look for "dog" because my dog is outside all day and figured it could be a good test. Not a single confirmed alert, but a bunch of cancelled alerts. Going to see if I can figure out if the logs capture weather somethings a match or not. Weird its not picking it up.
I see theres a .0.1 release. Will install, restart BI, and restart the deepstack process and see what happens.
Oh question: Is this automatically taking pictures to send to deepstack or do I still need to have the Record tab set to take pictures?
I figured! Thanks!It takes a picture from the alert image that triggered the motion. You do not need to have the record tab set to take pictures.