

In the Home Assistant Configuration | Users panel,Ĭreate a new user for Blue Iris to connect to the MQTT broker with. In order to support the MQTT binary sensors for the camera, some additional configuration needs to be performed on both Home Assistant and Blue Iris:Īssuming you are using the built-in MQTT server or the add-on Mosquitto broker, Set Hardware accelerated decode (restart) to a setting appropriate to your hardware (e.g. Also, in the case you want to use Casting and/or Streaming, some media player devices don't support using authentication.Ĭonfigure the Encoding settings so they’re compatible for Chromecast devices: H.264 video, AAC audio, and Resize output frame width x height should be set to 1920 x 1080:įinally, enable re-encoding. The secure session option uses HTTP_DIGEST_AUTHENTICATION, which isn't fully supported throughout the Home Assistant codebase yet. Leave Use secure session keys and login page unchecked.

This keeps any accesses or limitations you may wish to set on Home Assistant separate from the primary Administrator.Įnable the Blue Iris Web Server.
REVEAL BLUE IRIS KEY PASSWORD
Use this username and password in your Home Assistant configuration (shown in the next section). It's recommended you create a separate Administrator user for Home Assistant to connect to, and limit access to LAN only. If you intent to use any of the Blue Iris REST API commands (such as profile switching),
