I have a massive Blue Iris system. While it is not prefect I figured I would help it out a bit with IoX triggers. Example. I have a camera pointed at a door. Blue Iris fails to see someone at the door for what ever reason. At the door I have a motion sensor to turn the light on at might when someone shows up after porch light hours. So I have the IoX fire off a Blue Iris trigger any time the motion sensor goes off. It works really nice. I have other things like this setup. Like when the mail man opens my mailbox. Smile mail man!

(Normal status shown below)

Here is the problem. For what ever reason "Server Status" or "Node Server Online" may change state to "Disconnected". This causes the triggers to stop working. Clicking "Re-Connect" on Blue Iris Plugin will fix either disruption. So I figured I would write a few programs.

Blue Iris Reconect - [ID 00FE][Parent 0001]

If

'Blue Iris' NodeServer Online is Disconnected

Then

Set 'Blue Iris' Re-Discover

Wait 5 minutes

Else

- No Actions - (To add one, press Action')

And this second program

Blue Iris watchdog - [ID 0100][Parent 0001]

If

'Blue Iris' Server Status is Disconnected

Then

Set 'Blue Iris' Re-Discover

Wait 5 minutes

Else

- No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

These programs never run. Maybe it runs once and never again? I have to go in and manually click "Re-Discover". Do I have to set these to run at startup? Maybe set my wait to 1 minute?

There conditions besides "disconnected" that will be there when it is disconnected. Like "red". Anyway, use backward logic.

Blue Iris Re-Discover - [ID 00F9][Parent 0172][Run At Startup]

If

'Blue Iris' NodeServer Online is not Connected

Or 'Blue Iris' Server Status is not Green

Then

Wait 1 minute

Repeat Every 1 hour

Send Notification to 'apo' content 'Blue Iris Disconnected'

Set 'Blue Iris' Re-Discover

Else

- No Actions - (To add one, press 'Action')

This works for me.

Problem for whatever reason is if Blue iris goes offline (reboot the computer, power outage, or some hiccup), either Blue Iris needs to restart or you need to rediscover. This is a bug in the node server that they can't seem to correct.