Posting motion zone information in alerts

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Madan Sudhindra

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Mar 27, 2018
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Hi,

I have 4 cameras reporting into Blue Iris and I have configured motion zones for areas of interesting activity.

I am very interested in integrating my Blue Iris installation, into my home automation tool.
One use case that I have, is to have perform an action (like turn on a light, and play a voice announcement) if there is any motion in a certain area around my front door.

I love the feature where Blue iris can write the alert to MQTT, which allows me to read it from my home automation platform!

My question is if there are multiple "motion zones" defined for a camera, can the zone information also be posted ? Is there a way to do this ?

Thanks in advance
 
Thank @devastator
Can the duplicate cameras be hidden ?
I'd prefer to only show the four cameras on the screen.
With setting up the duplicate cameras, what kind of increase would I see on the CPU utilization ? I am running BlueIris on a Dell T30, with 8 GB RAM.
 
Madan Sudhindra said:
Thank @devastator
Can the duplicate cameras be hidden ?
I'd prefer to only show the four cameras on the screen.
With setting up the duplicate cameras, what kind of increase would I see on the CPU utilization ? I am running BlueIris on a Dell T30, with 8 GB RAM.
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Yes a duplicate camera can be hidden. Put the original 4 cameras in a group, only show the group.
When you duplicate a camera it doesn't actually stream a 2nd stream from the cam. noted in the statistics area it should show 0 for bps. It does use a bit more CPU as it is analyzing the image.
I think this route would be your best bet.

I use a technique like this to track my snow plow guy in the winter. Essentially recording when he plows...as I've been charged for days that no one showed up in the past... :-(
 
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