Here's a complete walkthrough of how to set up a 24x7 SD recording camera with an HD stream that only records on AI motion detection: danecreekphotography/node-deepstackai-trigger. The camera config described there works just fine with AI Tool, and will get the alerts to show up properly in BlueIris.
[tool] [tutorial] Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris
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Yes I just noticed that too when experimenting with 1.67. That's definitely a bug. Which version of AI Tool are you using?
I am using 1.67 preview 3
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I tried the face recognition feature. I guess most people would like to use this to get information like "person xy is home" or to block alerts when a known person is detected. Generally a good idea I had in mind too, but I think it would undermine the reliability as p.e. anyone could just print your face and wear it. Additionally and probably most importantly, the face recognition seldomly works if the face resolution is as low as it usually is on p.e. a 2MP camera. On higher res cameras this probably is a less important point. Third point is that face detection is significantly slower than usual object detection in my experience (can someone confirm that?).
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I've been messing with Coral USB Accelerator to process every single frame. I've bumped my confidence to > 40%. Sure, it will miss persons in some frames, but in the end it will always have identified it in one of the others... Will share here once it's ready for prime time.
Are you using: robmarkcole/coral-pi-rest-server w/ Pi?
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No, because that does not process all frames. My script is working on the RTSP stream.
Are you getting truncation of the text if there are multiple detection?
Can't wait to see how that works. BlueIris should do a coral integration into the software so that it can do everything in blueiris!!
@GentlePumpkin apparently 5.2.9.15 allows the memo and flagging now 
I was one of the initial testers, couldn't get it working too great on Windows. It would work for a while then completely bomb out and stop processing for a few hours. Decided to give docker version of Deepquest a shot - wow! It's running really well now, especially with GentlePumpkin improving the AI Tool.
Using version 1.65, sending alerts to my Alexa devices via notifyme when someone is detected at the front door, no more senseless recording either of car headlights either. Cool!
@GentlePumpkin Face detection could be quite nice in certain instances, such as for automation. Example, turning on the hallway lights automatically when a known member of the family is home. I've got a 4K camera at the front door - how much of a processing delay is there?
I had a question as well - When AI Tool is running as a service, is there a 'proper' way to view stats? I generally like to babysit the tool for a while to gauge how well it works and tweak masks etc to make it work better. The AI itself seems to be a lot more accurate than when I initially tried this out.
Using version 1.65, sending alerts to my Alexa devices via notifyme when someone is detected at the front door, no more senseless recording either of car headlights either. Cool!
@GentlePumpkin Face detection could be quite nice in certain instances, such as for automation. Example, turning on the hallway lights automatically when a known member of the family is home. I've got a 4K camera at the front door - how much of a processing delay is there?
I had a question as well - When AI Tool is running as a service, is there a 'proper' way to view stats? I generally like to babysit the tool for a while to gauge how well it works and tweak masks etc to make it work better. The AI itself seems to be a lot more accurate than when I initially tried this out.
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Works for me too now, nice!@GentlePumpkin apparently 5.2.9.15 allows the memo and flagging now
Blue Iris motion detection triggers the camera, and as soon as AI Tool confirms the alert, it gets flagged and has the detection tag. Thanks for the heads up
How does blueiris setup differ from what in this video:Works for me too now, nice!
Blue Iris motion detection triggers the camera, and as soon as AI Tool confirms the alert, it gets flagged and has the detection tag. Thanks for the heads up
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It's great to hear such improvement
Regarding the face recognition: Today made a test setup and experimented with it, but even though you can teach Deepstack with multiple sample images for a person, the detection rate remains very low. I used high quality images where the face alone covers an area of p.e. 1000x600px and the results still lacked reliability entirely. I pushed the test setup with one additional Faces tab in AI Tool to github in the branch gp-face, so everyone is free to try it. Currently, I don't see how this could work reliably.
Regarding viewing stats: The stats raw data is stored in the history.csv located in the cameras subfolder. But there is no comfortable way to review them when you can't access the interface of AI Tool.
@GentlePumkin is there any update on the bug where you delete the history,csv but the stats graphs and figures won’t reset?
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It's way simpler! I'll explain it in detail later. Meanwhile, you can still use the duplicate camera setup if you prefer that. I always try to update AI Tool in a way so that you can stick with a specific setup if you prefer it. Sometimes it's not possible, but I always invest alot of time trying to.
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Haven't yet figured out why.
EDIT: Not true, I changed something in code yesterday which may have caused it. So in 1.67 preview 3 it does not happen anymore. Can you confirm that? @joshwah
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