How to setup Dahua IVS with BlueIris?

[Corvus85]

Hey all,

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I'm only just trying this out now with one of my Dahua cams - and I'm noticing that after I draw the tripwire and hit 'save', the brightness on the entire image increases. It looks like it's defaulting my exposure settings.

However, if I press 'default' in the IVS settings and hit 'save', my previous exposure settings return.

Is this normal behavior? Or have I discovered a bug with the firmware?

 

[Corvus85]

Also, I finally successfully achieved getting the tripwire to work. Turns out I didn't have authentication for ONVIF enabled in my camera settings.

However, right now it only works as a trigger to activate deepstack. I've got the tripwire running across the bottom of a gate, which is made of sheet metal (cannot see through it). So opening the gate sends a trigger just fine - and so long as I walk through the gate and make myself visible, Deepstack generates an alert.

But what if I want BI to generate an alert regardless of whether or not Deepstack detects a person?
Can I just have it 'override' Deepstack, so long as the tripwire is breached?

I don't want to turn off Deepstack, as there are other areas in the frame that I want to recognize people and animals - and eventually I want to be able to detect faces of people coming through the gate.

Is there a way to do this?

 

[wittaj]

Hey all,

Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I'm only just trying this out now with one of my Dahua cams - and I'm noticing that after I draw the tripwire and hit 'save', the brightness on the entire image increases. It looks like it's defaulting my exposure settings.

However, if I press 'default' in the IVS settings and hit 'save', my previous exposure settings return.

Is this normal behavior? Or have I discovered a bug with the firmware?

Known bug in the firmware. What happens is it reverts the exposure setting to auto gain.

You need to set up the IVS rule first then go and set the exposure settings.

 

[wittaj]

Also, I finally successfully achieved getting the tripwire to work. Turns out I didn't have authentication for ONVIF enabled in my camera settings.

However, right now it only works as a trigger to activate deepstack. I've got the tripwire running across the bottom of a gate, which is made of sheet metal (cannot see through it). So opening the gate sends a trigger just fine - and so long as I walk through the gate and make myself visible, Deepstack generates an alert.

But what if I want BI to generate an alert regardless of whether or not Deepstack detects a person?
Can I just have it 'override' Deepstack, so long as the tripwire is breached?

I don't want to turn off Deepstack, as there are other areas in the frame that I want to recognize people and animals - and eventually I want to be able to detect faces of people coming through the gate.

Is there a way to do this?

Under motion settings is an "immediate actions" option and you can tell it there to send you an alert regardless of deepstack settings.

 

[Corvus85]

Under motion settings is an "immediate actions" option and you can tell it there to send you an alert regardless of deepstack settings.

Do you mean 'send me an alert' - like to my phone?
Or do you mean generate an alert within BI? <- Because I want that one.

 

[wittaj]

Oh under BI it generates an alert, but shows as cancelled if it doesn't meet your AI criteria. Under the AI tab, simply check the box that says "show cancelled triggers on timeline" or something worded like that and then it will show all the alerts whether it met AI or not.

 

[Corvus85]

Under the AI tab, simply check the box that says "show cancelled triggers on timeline" or something worded like that and then it will show all the alerts whether it met AI or not.

That would be a disaster because then it would show literally any bug that flies across the frame.

Is there really no option that will make a hotspot or tripwire override AI?

 

[wittaj]

There is something missing here in communication.

You have it show alerts for things that you want AI to alert for.

You want it to alert you for other things but not bugs,etc. That requires more defining of your motion and setup.

You can have a hotspot but that would trigger for bugs.

If you only want alerts of IVS tripwire whether it meets AI or not, then you need to turn BI motion detection off.

Or you can start setting up clones to accomplish what you want.

Provide more details of what you are trying to accomplish and we can guide you to the right method.

 

[Corvus85]

Well let's put it this way.

I'm not really concerned if a bug crosses the tripwire or hotspot - because the hotspot/tripwire itself is quite small so that'll only happen every so often.
But to have every cancelled trigger appear as an alert is wayyyy too much to weed through.

Basically, I want BI to generate an alert when:

• The tripwire is crossed (either by people, cats or bugs. No big deal)
• Whenever a person or cat is detected by AI anywhere else within the frame.

If I understand you correctly, you're saying I can either have one or the other, but not both - correct?

 

[wittaj]

You set it up to immediate alert without going thru AI for an IVS trigger and then tell it any other trigger run it thru Deepstack.

 

[Corvus85]

You set it up to immediate alert without going thru AI for an IVS trigger and then tell it any other trigger run it thru Deepstack.

Ok great! So the immediate alert will be created in my 'alerts' list regardless if it doesn't detect a human or cat - but also preserve the ability for Deepstack to detect these objects in other parts of the frame? How do I do this exactly?

 

[therealdeal74]

i finally fix my problem, here is what fix it to me, i was using on my blue iris my admin account when setup the cameras, this admin account have a very long complicate password so i don't know if that was the problem, so i create a onvif user account with a less complex password and update my blue iris camera with that password and now no more error and the IVS Is working great, hope that can help you Geomancer

Just wanted to say thanks for this. This was the solution to my problem. My admin password has a few special characters in it an @ symbol and !. I've been trying each suggestion in this thread and reverting back to see what would work. Today I created an ONVIF user with a less complex password, I added it to the user group and then changed the user in BI and did a find/inspect. With only the camera's motion detection enabled and only an IVS rule enabled on the camera, the triggering worked exactly as it should have.

Now to do the same thing with my other cameras...

 

[sebastiantombs]

If you look at the initialization page when you're setting the password you'll see that Dahua says not to use "special characters" and I think the exclamation point is one of them.

 

[GentlePumpkin]

the topic using https was discussed and that the https setting interfers with BI's capacity to fetch onvif events. I have a camera on a separate network that I quickly installed on a pole and the network cable and even connector are easily accessible for a 3rd person. This is worst practise, indeed. But no time for a decent install means dirty or no cam at all. That's why I'd like to use https.

Does anybody have some hints how to use https together with onvif events?

 

[Michael11]

Sorry for the long post. I think I lost some as I kept rereading this thread to see if I missed anything.

I have been struggling to get IVS alerts working. I am on the same BI version as well as using the same dahua camera and firmware version as another member that only uses IVS. I'm just going to post everything and hopefully someone can think of something missed. Maybe something in the network settings?

1) Smart Plan = IVS
2) IVS = Triggers setup
3) Triggers work during live view of camera
4) I factory reset the camera and the admin password has letters and numbers only.
5) Also, I went to account then created a new user and added it in Onvif. I tried both in BI. Find inspect was identical in BI for admin and the new user.
6) Safety setting in camera has Onvif enabled. There is another spot that mentions Onvif that eludes me atm but it is on.
7) Deepstack works.
8) I disabled the firewall on my antivirus, then uninstalled it. I whitelisted windows defender, then turned off the firewall. I have AT&T router/modem that has intrusion detection, I turned that off.
9) I can connect to the webserver on my LAN.
10) Shield is armed.
11) Not sure that it matters. I'm having BI send the http requests using its own scheduler for the profiles found here Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset | Page 21 | IP Cam Talk
12) Right now, all my cameras are setup to detect IVS and motion. I'm not getting any external alerts.

Driveway1 is the same camera as driveway, but setup from scratch with IVS alerts only. I know the below is an issue.





I don't have the target filter on to catch animals. I also checked record then re-did find inspect. Again, during live view of the camera the zones are tripped.



Dual NIC. Camera NIC IP is 192.168.55.10 (I had the last section of default gateway at .254 but tried switching it).



NIC for cameras. It is considered public. I haven't messed with any settings but following the first post here Dual NIC setup on your Blue Iris Machine | IP Cam Talk




No errors on Find/inspect.








I'm using the Motion sensor since IVS is not working, but I did install a camera from scratch without that box checked. I tried trigger until reset too.





Again, one camera is duplicated with the motion zones individually turn off (A-H are unchecked there only).



I did switch to continuous as well. Nothing is stored in the new folder, everything goes to stored. Alerts has 5GB allotted and motion detection with DS works fine. Not sure if that matters.



Driveway1 setup without motion on is not getting alerts when the camera detects the trigger.

 

[wittaj]

Sorry for the long post. I think I lost some as I kept rereading this thread to see if I missed anything.

I have been struggling to get IVS alerts working. I am on the same BI version as well as using the same dahua camera and firmware version as another member that only uses IVS. I'm just going to post everything and hopefully someone can think of something missed. Maybe something in the network settings?

1) Smart Plan = IVS
2) IVS = Triggers setup
3) Triggers work during live view of camera
4) I factory reset the camera and the admin password has letters and numbers only.
5) Also, I went to account then created a new user and added it in Onvif. I tried both in BI. Find inspect was identical in BI for admin and the new user.
6) Safety setting in camera has Onvif enabled. There is another spot that mentions Onvif that eludes me atm but it is on.
7) Deepstack works.
8) I disabled the firewall on my antivirus, then uninstalled it. I whitelisted windows defender, then turned off the firewall. I have AT&T router/modem that has intrusion detection, I turned that off.
9) I can connect to the webserver on my LAN.
10) Shield is armed.
11) Not sure that it matters. I'm having BI send the http requests using its own scheduler for the profiles found here Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset | Page 21 | IP Cam Talk
12) Right now, all my cameras are setup to detect IVS and motion. I'm not getting any external alerts.

Driveway1 is the same camera as driveway, but setup from scratch with IVS alerts only. I know the below is an issue.

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I don't have the target filter on to catch animals. I also checked record then re-did find inspect. Again, during live view of the camera the zones are tripped.

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Dual NIC. Camera NIC IP is 192.168.55.10 (I had the last section of default gateway at .254 but tried switching it).

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NIC for cameras. It is considered public. I haven't messed with any settings but following the first post here Dual NIC setup on your Blue Iris Machine | IP Cam Talk

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No errors on Find/inspect.

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I'm using the Motion sensor since IVS is not working, but I did install a camera from scratch without that box checked. I tried trigger until reset too.

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Again, one camera is duplicated with the motion zones individually turn off (A-H are unchecked there only).

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I did switch to continuous as well. Nothing is stored in the new folder, everything goes to stored. Alerts has 5GB allotted and motion detection with DS works fine. Not sure if that matters.

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Driveway1 setup without motion on is not getting alerts when the camera detects the trigger.

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Let's try a few things:

Uncheck the Motion Zones here and in the "On Alert" option. If BI is triggering for those then it won't show it as an external/ONVIF alert.




Check the record box here:




Up the Receive Buffer to 40MB here:

 

[Michael11]

Camera settings - checked record on all triggers then saved.

Video, find and inspect. to pull in changes.

Trigger - motion sensor off

Alerts - unchecked boxes A-H

Buffer up to 40MB.

I had someone watch Live as I walked to make the triggers go and nothing in BI.

 

[wittaj]

I missed one, did you uncheck this motion sensor also:



What if you turn AI in BI to none and lets make sure there isn't some weird conflict there.

 

[Michael11]

I had turned that motion sensor off the first time. I knew what you meant

I turned AI to none, saved. Went back outside and nothing.

Then I tried trigger until reset too.

 

[wittaj]

That is a head scratcher. Everything looks right and I just confirmed it to my 5442-ZE settings.

What version BI and what version ONVIF in the camera GUI are you on - maybe there is an issue there and rollback of the camera firmware would be the answer.

Have you tried the good ole reboot the computer LOL?

If that doesn't do it, then I would say delete the camera and try again. Do you have another 5442-ZE that works and you could copy that BI camera config?