[tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris

[GentlePumpkin]

the extended log at least shows which objects were detected in an image

 

[MnM]

Thank you.

Great work, as usual

 

[juliandom]

Source Code:

I sincerely have no idea how this works with github and visual studio projects, but I think that's a good thing if you give m some tips.

What's the question here? I can definitely help you set it up, as this would be an awesome OSS project that we can all contribute to (but yo can still be the gatekeeper, it's not like anyone can just push code to your repo). What source control do you currently use? GitHub is super easy to use, especially if you are already using git as source control.

 

[IAmATeaf]

I had a reply back from Ken re the * and clones where the * would move, below is what he said, as I’m away at the mo I’ve not had the chance to test.

“There is a little known checkbox on the Video tab ... "designated group master" ... this can be used to force a specific camera in a clone group to always be the "real" camera.

However, the way clone works it just copies the video stream over to each clone. Each clone then operates independently with regard to triggering and alerts.”

Quoting my own post but I’m now back home and thought I’d give the above a try. Works as stated but be warned it reset the motion zones and a few other settings when I ticked this option. Didn’t have a backup so I had to redo all the zones and am still trying to remember which settings I actually changed.

 

[sansnil]

I just today had a chance to upgrade to 1.56 and am seeing this error when launching the app. Anyone else see this? It seems to work after hitting 'Continue.'

 

[Tinbum]

No, not seen that.

 

[johnny2678]

I just today had a chance to upgrade to 1.56 and am seeing this error when launching the app. Anyone else see this? It seems to work after hitting 'Continue.'

yes, I've been getting that everytime with 1.55. Doesn't seem to impact operation. Haven't tried with 1.56 yet.

edit: just upgraded to 1.56 and still getting the error - AI Tool still seems to be working fine after clicking through the error.

 

[Mr-Moo]

Hi,
I've been going through the entire thread and I can't seem to find a real solution to my issue. I hope this thread is the right place to post. I have deepstack and everything running successfully, but for whatever reason it's failing to process any images. I see in the Deepstack log receiving the images (post /v1/vision/detection) from AI Tool, but AI tool just pukes. Are there other logs for Deepstack, I can't seem to find any other than the window that opens?

[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: Starting analysis of C:\BlueIris\deepstack/AI-DWY.20190822_124920633.jpg
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: 1. uploading image to DeepQuestAI Server ...
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: 2. Waiting for results ...
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: ERROR: Processing the image C:\BlueIris\deepstack/AI-DWY.20190822_124920633.jpg failed. Enabling 'Log everything' might give more information.​

I've tried reinstalling Deepstack, I tried moving the deepstack service to another machine. Nothing seems to be working. Windows eventlogs don't contain any messages related to deepstack or AI Tool. AI tool is running as admin. History and events are both blank. Network connectivity is good, both can talk to eachother (port 81 for deepstack). ICMP responds successfully, web UI for eachother pull up. AV disabled, firewall of. You can see the data reaching Deepstack in the logs.

Is there something I'm missing? help getting this resolved would be wonderful.
Thank you in advance

 

[johnny2678]

Hi,
I've been going through the entire thread and I can't seem to find a real solution to my issue. I hope this thread is the right place to post. I have deepstack and everything running successfully, but for whatever reason it's failing to process any images. I see in the Deepstack log receiving the images (post /v1/vision/detection) from AI Tool, but AI tool just pukes. Are there other logs for Deepstack, I can't seem to find any other than the window that opens?

[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: Starting analysis of C:\BlueIris\deepstack/AI-DWY.20190822_124920633.jpg
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: 1. uploading image to DeepQuestAI Server ...
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: 2. Waiting for results ...
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: ERROR: Processing the image C:\BlueIris\deepstack/AI-DWY.20190822_124920633.jpg failed. Enabling 'Log everything' might give more information.​

I've tried reinstalling Deepstack, I tried moving the deepstack service to another machine. Nothing seems to be working. Windows eventlogs don't contain any messages related to deepstack or AI Tool. AI tool is running as admin. History and events are both blank.

Is there something I'm missing? help getting this resolved would be wonderful.
Thank you in advance

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Looks like AI Tool isn't finding Deepstack? Do you have the correct IPORT on the Config tab?

 

[Silvermoose]

Hi,
I've been going through the entire thread and I can't seem to find a real solution to my issue. I hope this thread is the right place to post. I have deepstack and everything running successfully, but for whatever reason it's failing to process any images. I see in the Deepstack log receiving the images (post /v1/vision/detection) from AI Tool, but AI tool just pukes. Are there other logs for Deepstack, I can't seem to find any other than the window that opens?

[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: Starting analysis of C:\BlueIris\deepstack/AI-DWY.20190822_124920633.jpg
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: 1. uploading image to DeepQuestAI Server ...
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: 2. Waiting for results ...
[22.08.2019, 12:49:21]: ERROR: Processing the image C:\BlueIris\deepstack/AI-DWY.20190822_124920633.jpg failed. Enabling 'Log everything' might give more information.​

I've tried reinstalling Deepstack, I tried moving the deepstack service to another machine. Nothing seems to be working. Windows eventlogs don't contain any messages related to deepstack or AI Tool. AI tool is running as admin. History and events are both blank.

Is there something I'm missing? help getting this resolved would be wonderful.
Thank you in advance

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I'm following along with this as I am having the same problem. I have Deepstack set to port 81.

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[Tinbum]

I use localhost:80

 

[sansnil]

This likely isn't helpful but just in case... I use the Windows Docker version of DeepStack (so it can auto-start on my Windows server) and I had a similar issue because I got hung up on the "DeepStack URL" setting because I was adding "http://" and it needs to be just the ip address (192.168.99.100).

 

[Silvermoose]

I use localhost:80

IIRC you are supposed to use 81

From the install for Deepstack

1. Install DeepQuestAI

DeepQuestAI recently released a Windows installer, so we no longer need the complicated Docker installation. If have the Docker version running, you should uninstall it before.

1.1 Although free, DeepQuestAI needs an API key, so we have to register an account. Create an account at Sign Up, choose the free plan (that is sufficient for our use), go to the portal (Dashboard), click 'Install DeepStack', select 'Windows' and download the installer. While downloading, you can return to the dashboard and copy your API key. Notice that on the Dashboard it says 'Expires: Unlimited'.

1.2 As soon as DeepQuestAI is installed, start DeepQuestAI(from now on I'll call it DQAI ) , hit 'Start Server', input your API-Key, select the 'Detection API' and change the Port from 80 (Blue Iris needs this Port for UI3) to p.e. 81. Finally click 'Start Now'.

1.2 You will merely need it, but the web interface of DQAI is now accessible by opening "localhost:81" with your web browser. Other devices on your network can access the interface using your Blue Iris IP and Port 81, so p.e. "192.168.178.2:81". Notice that the web interface now gives an expiry date (2 years). I don't know if the API expires or or not, but getting a new API key every 2 years isn't a great problem imho.

Now the actual software that analyzes the images is already running.

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[Tinbum]

IIRC you are supposed to use 81

From the install for Deepstack

1. Install DeepQuestAI

DeepQuestAI recently released a Windows installer, so we no longer need the complicated Docker installation. If have the Docker version running, you should uninstall it before.

1.1 Although free, DeepQuestAI needs an API key, so we have to register an account. Create an account at Sign Up, choose the free plan (that is sufficient for our use), go to the portal (Dashboard), click 'Install DeepStack', select 'Windows' and download the installer. While downloading, you can return to the dashboard and copy your API key. Notice that on the Dashboard it says 'Expires: Unlimited'.

1.2 As soon as DeepQuestAI is installed, start DeepQuestAI(from now on I'll call it DQAI ) , hit 'Start Server', input your API-Key, select the 'Detection API' and change the Port from 80 (Blue Iris needs this Port for UI3) to p.e. 81. Finally click 'Start Now'.

1.2 You will merely need it, but the web interface of DQAI is now accessible by opening "localhost:81" with your web browser. Other devices on your network can access the interface using your Blue Iris IP and Port 81, so p.e. "192.168.178.2:81". Notice that the web interface now gives an expiry date (2 years). I don't know if the API expires or or not, but getting a new API key every 2 years isn't a great problem imho.

Now the actual software that analyzes the images is already running.

L8tr
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I guess it depends how you set it up but Localhost:80 works for me. ( I don't have BI5 on :80)

 

[johnny2678]

This likely isn't helpful but just in case... I use the Windows Docker version of DeepStack (so it can auto-start on my Windows server) and I had a similar issue because I got hung up on the "DeepStack URL" setting because I was adding "http://" and it needs to be just the ip address (192.168.99.100).

I also noticed that when I changed the ip : url on the AI Tool config tab, I had to restart the program after making the changes before everything started working.

 

[Silvermoose]

I tried port 80 with no luck and also using "localhost" instead of IP address. I restarted AIT after each change. Still same error. I will say though that using http:// made the AIT reaction time a lot faster.

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[Tinbum]

In a browser what port did you need to use to bring up the activation page as shown in my post?

 

[johnny2678]

I tried port 80 with no luck and also using "localhost" instead of IP address. I restarted AIT after each change. Still same error. I will say though that using http:// made the AIT reaction time a lot faster.

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if you load the URL in a browser, does the Deepstack portal load?

 

[Silvermoose]

Yes DeepStack does load. I really appreciate the help. This is a great forum

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[johnny2678]

Yes DeepStack does load. I really appreciate the help. This is a great forum

L8tr
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I'm running the docker version, so not sure if I'm helping

I can watch the deepstack logs and see when an image is processed. Do you see any logs like this?

[GIN] 2019/08/22 - 12:25:13 | 200 |  1.888621888s |   192.168.XXX.YYY | POST     /v1/vision/detection
[GIN] 2019/08/22 - 12:26:05 | 200 |  1.555230341s |   192.168.XXX.YYY | POST     /v1/vision/detection
[GIN] 2019/08/22 - 12:26:13 | 200 |  1.505777399s |   192.168.XXX.YYY | POST     /v1/vision/detection
[GIN] 2019/08/22 - 12:31:45 | 200 |  2.461283118s |   192.168.XXX.YYY | POST     /v1/vision/detection
[GIN] 2019/08/22 - 12:31:50 | 200 |  2.764808968s |   192.168.XXX.YYY | POST     /v1/vision/detection
[GIN] 2019/08/22 - 12:31:53 | 200 |  1.553019084s |   192.168.XXX.YYY | POST     /v1/vision/detection