Set Position and get Screenshot (Dahua or BlueIris)

[Joshude]

Hello folks,

i have some new Dahua Cams and i'm a newbie to BlueIris. I've set up Deepstack and everythings working so far.
My setup is to replace the current setup of just cameras running in the network without any form of NVR etc.

What i can do with the old setup is to set positions of the PTZ-camera and to save a screenshot.

curl --insecure -d 'cmd=preset' -d '-act=goto' -d '-number=0' -d 'usr=user' -d 'pwd=pwd' "http://someddnsadress/param.cgi?"
sleep 5s
wget --no-check-certificate -O /home/pi/images/timelapse/uebersicht/uebersicht.jpg "http://someddnsadress/tmpfs/snap.jpg?usr=user&pwd=pwd"

I want to achive similar with either direct dahua features or even better with BlueIris. So send a command to BlueIris and then have a screenshot saved which i can then send.

Whats the best practice? I know that Dahua cams can utilize cgi-commands, but is there a way with BI, so that i can have the commands kinda uniform, even if there might be an non-dahua-cam added?

Thanks in advance!

 

[bp2008]

Yes, you can control a lot of things and download snapshots from Blue Iris. See Blue Iris's help file. There are sections about the web server and, if you need more advanced functions, the JSON interface.