Set Profile from Tasker on Android?

[ianm]

I want to set my Blue Iris profile to "away from home" when I leave the house. Since it seems that the Blue Iris geofencing feature isn't terribly reliable, I'd like to create a Tasker profile on my Android phone to do this. Has anyone done this? How would I do it? (i.e.having created the Android profile, how do I create a task to set a specific profile in Blue Iris?

 

[Ryan00]

I used to have something like this setup where tasker would change profiles. I know I used http push but fortunately I don't remember exactly how I did it. i would go about it something like this if tasker sees my phone is on home wifi http push profile 1 which is home . Once tasker sees Im off home wifi http push 2 which is away. I think I did it something like that. Look in tasker you will see wifi, that's the easy part I'm sure the http push will be a pain and I'm not sure you can use it if your cameras are hd with two streams . I'll look into this

 

[ianm]

I've just been trying out some HTTP requests from a browser (IE10) on my Windows 7 laptop to see if I can change the profile that way before using Tasker. I tried the URL below, but I just get presented with the Blue Iris login page:
http://192.168.1.4:81/admin?profile=MyProfileName&user=myusername&password=mypassword

Any idea why this request only presents me with the BI login page? (and doesn't change the profile)

 

[Ryan00]

Look at this Blue Iris integration- HTTP binding, REST api

 

[ianm]

Look at this Blue Iris integration- HTTP binding, REST api

Thanks. That suggests an alternative form of the URL:
http://user:password@192.168.1.4:81/admin?profile=MyProfileName

If I try that from IE I get "Windows cannot find http://....{etc} Check the spelling and try again"

???

 

[Ryan00]

Thanks. That suggests an alternative form of the URL:
http://user:password@192.168.1.4:81/admin?profile=MyProfileName

If I try that from IE I get "Windows cannot find http://....{etc} Check the spelling and try again"

???

Try it in another browser also did you change the port ?

 

[ianm]

Try it in another browser also did you change the port ?

I didn't change the port from the default (81).

If I try the same URL in Firefox I get:
"You are about to login to the site 192.168.1.4 with the username {myusername}, but the website does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you. Is 192.168.1.4 the site you want to visit?"

If I click "Yes" I get taken to the login form (and the BI profile remains unchanged)

If I try the Chrome browser I get taken directly to the BI login page.