How can I get BI to send the below HTTP commands at sunrise and sunset
Sunrise: Sunset:
Thanks
Mike
Sunrise: Sunset:
Thanks
Mike
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How can I get BI to send a HTTP command at sunrise and sunset
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What does that API command do?
And let us know if you figure it out. I have a profile set up that I want to use to turn off certain features within the camera via API, but as the other Mike mentioned, it needs a trigger first.
It is on my list of things to figure out, but hasn't been a priority, but I am sure there is a way to do so on profile change.
And let us know if you figure it out. I have a profile set up that I want to use to turn off certain features within the camera via API, but as the other Mike mentioned, it needs a trigger first.
It is on my list of things to figure out, but hasn't been a priority, but I am sure there is a way to do so on profile change.
It worked below are the steps
Step 1 create an sunrise/sunset override schedule.
Step 2 create a trigger event 1 minute after sunrise
Step 3 create a trigger event 1 minute after sunset
Step 4 create two trigger immediate actions
Step 5 create sunrise Web Request
Step 6 create sunset Web Request
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Ah - right there in front of my face LOL. I already do that with one camera to move the PTZ to a different Preset based on time.
I mean...there is BP's Dahua sunrise/sunset utility program. Used it for a year and it works great.
I eventually relied on my LUX sensor that is built into a weather station to interact with Home Assistant that has Dahua integration. I just like the local control and figured relying on LUX instead of yearly calculated sunrise/sunsets would be more accurate (dark clouds, rain, etc).
I eventually relied on my LUX sensor that is built into a weather station to interact with Home Assistant that has Dahua integration. I just like the local control and figured relying on LUX instead of yearly calculated sunrise/sunsets would be more accurate (dark clouds, rain, etc).
Here’s another interesting option… one that uses Task Scheduler instead of triggering a camera via its events schedule.
Simply execute sunwait.exe as the first Action in a daily scheduled Task to delay execution of the remaining Actions (your urls) until the desired sun time. Click <here> to learn more.
An example ‘sunrise’ task follows… the task executes at 5am, executes sunwait.exe, then waits until sunrise at my location to execute its remaining actions. In this case two urls are executed from Chrome in the foreground - you’ll see new tabs opened In the browser.
Where Action #1 is...
'Program' = c:\bin\sunwait
'Add argments' = wait rise offset -0:02:00 36.xxxxxxN 109.xxxxxxW
and Action #2 is...
'Program' = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
'Add argments' = “your url”
and Action #3 is...
'Program' = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
'Add argments' = "another url"
Simply execute sunwait.exe as the first Action in a daily scheduled Task to delay execution of the remaining Actions (your urls) until the desired sun time. Click <here> to learn more.
An example ‘sunrise’ task follows… the task executes at 5am, executes sunwait.exe, then waits until sunrise at my location to execute its remaining actions. In this case two urls are executed from Chrome in the foreground - you’ll see new tabs opened In the browser.
Where Action #1 is...
'Program' = c:\bin\sunwait
'Add argments' = wait rise offset -0:02:00 36.xxxxxxN 109.xxxxxxW
and Action #2 is...
'Program' = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
'Add argments' = “your url”
and Action #3 is...
'Program' = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
'Add argments' = "another url"
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You should consider using "Home Assistant" the Reolink and Dahua integrations allow these settings to be changed. For example I have an automation when a light turns on or off to also toggle "color/blackandwhite" mode. It is super simple to setup and I am a complete HA noob. There is also a Blue Iris integration that has alot of mqtt commands to control Blue Iris itself, you would then use this to make automations much more complicated then my little brain could 
