You 100% deserve more subs. As an IT systems engineer who just bought his first house, I was about to embark on the daunting task of "smartifying" my home using 100% diy/homebrew resources. I didn't really feel like allowing google or amazon to monitor my home environment. I was about spend my entire night blue printing and researching this. I was astonished to see that you thought the same as I did and already the hard part! Much appreciated!

Fantastic, I've been looking forward to a video like this one. Time to actually start using my BlueIris server to its full potential! Great guide!

Great work, sir. Blue Iris just got another customer from your in-depth and ridiculously helpful video. Thank you very much for going through each step of the setup. Followed to a tee and it's up and running.

I love how fast you go in your videos! I'm sure lots of people hate it, but that's what rewind is for!!!

Installed it myself without any issues. The wifi signal is great even kzfaq.infoUgkxE_D_sddGAdiVUKp7PkkmyxO7bRtgqmk5 when the router is located far away. I really enjoy the night vision feature that allows me to see clearly any activity near our house (mostly cars and wild animals). The motion detection is helpful to me as well to monitor what happens on our front.

This vid is amazingly detailed with information. and that without any useless chit/chat other tubers fill their 30min vids with. Great work Rob! your style is inspiring!

Excellent in-depth video, your pacing is perfect and helps to keep an otherwise boring topic very interesting. Thank you for doing this!

Holy moly I just installed Home Assistant the other day, had to troubleshoot, and found your channel. *musical interlude: A WHOLE NEW WORLD*... seriously, thank you so much for making all these videos. I know it's gotta be a ton of work, but it's a godsend for those of us tinkering around in this crazy pandemic era! Thanks so much!

Uuuf! Wow! Hats off! This was one of the most complicated topics I’ve ever seen put so simple that I believe every Home Assistant advanced user should be able to repeat them. I’ll be for sure doing this. I had thoughts in about a year to get somethink like this together, but I didn’t find tools which you found. Respect! I love your videos, please continue in doing such a good content! Thanks a lot!

DUDE! Really? Hands down one of my favorite channels! Always super informative, clearly described and succinct. Continue setting the bar!

This is an awesome addtion to BI. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!

I just moved into a new house and am looking to set cameras up. This is a perfectly timed video. Thanks for all the great info

Fantastic video, Rob, and extremely thorough. Thank you for all of the hard work you obviously put into all of your videos

Lots of people are reporting that they don't have a volume called "localstorage" in portainer in the dropdown box. I may have generated it without knowing sometime while testing different things out. To create a volume, in portainer select volumes -> +Add Volume -> then put localstorage in as the name and hit create volume. Edit: I've discovered that an unclean shutdown (power loss for example) can corrupt the camera configuration in AI tools. I'd recommend copying the "cameras" folder to a second location in case this happens.

I've been working on installing cameras and I'm about to configure Blue Iris to get this going. Thank you so much for your amazing guides.

Awesome set up! Thanks for taking the time to make this video! you gave me several idea's for my ever evolving setup.

Wow your videos are always amazing Rob, but this one is something special! Thank you for all the work in condensing all those steps into a single, concise video!

You are the Best! I've been looking for something like this for years!! It would be GREAT if you could do an annual update on this system, to talk about changes and updates.

Excellent rundown! As always Rob. Thank you for that.

THIS is one of your BEST EVER How-To videos! AWESOME! Very Well Done!

Thanks a lot. This video was what i needed as I was hesitating between buying a prebuilt NAS (like Synology) and an older desktop PC. Now that i've seen the power of Blue Iris, I decided that I need a desktop pc for my needs. Thank you so much.

You are hands-down the best KZfaqr out there. Thank you immensely for all of the hard work and effort you put into this!

Amazing video, just when i was looking for a new security camera setup! Perfect timing and great video

Even though this video is a couple of years old now, it still helped me allot! Thanks for making it.

The way you explain and breakdown things. Your students will be so intelligent. I wish I had such a teacher. All the way from Nigeria, I've watched ALL your videos

Seriously great work. Thank you!

I stumbled across one of your other videos on cameras and found this. You have a new subscriber here. This video was awesome and answered so many of my questions and your setup is absolutely what I want to do. You'll also have a new patreon subscriber in me. The amount of knowledge you have in this area is impressive!

Thank you so much for putting together all the best in all your videos. Your videos really help me when I don't know where to start.

I just realized that DeepStack wasn't some cloud service and could be run on prem... that's a game changer! I have basically the same setup as you describe here, and am actually writing this from my camera server since I forgot to log out of RDP, lol. Thanks for making this easy to follow tutorial!

i cant believe you've convinced me to add a windows box for this

Beautiful. I was planning to go with Synology because of ease of use. You just convinced me to use Blue Iris.

Clearly One of THE best presenters on KZfaq, bar none

I need this in the Garage. "Where the hell did I put that 10mm"

WOW, now THATS indepth. Very cool solution. I think I'm just going to start with a VPN to my network first

Another great video Rob! Looks like a project for the weekend while in lockdown.

Thanks for this video. I just got this working using version 1.67 of Gentle Pumpkin's program. Many things have changed so you need to read his instructions to get it to work now. It works on the main camera stream so is now very resource hungry.

Thanks for the info on how to set this up, I have went from nothing to a full custom ai surveillance system in 2 days. I cant wait for the bear that has been causing trouble in my chicken coop to return so I can get some good video of my dog putting his ass in check.

Great video for viewers with quite advanced computing skills. For those without, like myself, I find that SightHound can do a lot (but not all) of this from quite a dated laptop. It was relatively intuitive, reasonably priced, and I have found the support team very responsive. No affiliation by the way, as I am in Australia. Just passing on my experience for those with less computer skills than those required to perform the process outlined in this video.

Ok, I've been running this now for about 3 days and I can't overstate how much of a positive difference this has made on the reliability of my triggers. Rob, this is, without question, the most impactful video so far. I had been thinking about deepstack for a while but just hadn't made time to dig into it. Your links and info for AI Tool has saved me countless hours trying to come up with something similar. I still have that work to do for the inside monitoring but this has made a big difference for people detection outside.

Wow! You killed it! great setup info. I guess I have only been scratching the surface with a couple dozen cams and BlueIris.

Can you please share Node-Red workflow or do a video on it. Thanks for getting me hooked on!

This makes my puny brain hurt.

This video helped me a lot. Got it all setup and working now. Thanks from South Africa👍

Brilliant video, brilliant channel. Wish i found it years ago. Just moved to my new house and it’s time to think about a surveillance setup again. I’m pumped.

Great video! Will have to try this out. There is also a good Home assistant custom component for blueiris that I’ve been using which also runs with MQTT. Might be worth checking out and incorporating into this!

You sir are amazing, i think iam just failing tho xD I tried to install Home Assistant like youre other tutorial with Virtual box VM but couldent get it to work at all (Dont worry i did follow some other guide i found and got that working) And now i cant get Deepstack to work, first i had a problem with the local storage thing but i saw you wrote about it in the comments down below. So i tried to use the Widows program and in docker on my Synology nas but come into the same error on both. In the AI tool its stuck on Proccessing and in the logs it says it cant connect to Deepstack. Ill just keep trying, and you keep upload great guides!

Thank you. Will be adding to my HA installation.

This is amazing! Awesome! Can't wait to try it on my system

Whelp I guess I know what I'm doing with my free time tomorrow 😂

Please do a follow up video showing how you turn this into texts saying "Person in back yard" with image. Or "Dog in front driveway" with image. Please!!!

Brilliant. Thanks Rob for sharing all this knowledge and packaging it up into an accessible format (even if I'm going to need to rewatch this a few times). I've been hoping you would do this video for a while - top job!

Absolute legend. Taking inspiration, rebuilt a fresh Win10 VM and stood this up in about 2 hours with 12 cams. Very impressed, even with Windows bloat, it runs with less CPU than my equivalent Linux VM with the same cams. Best of all Motion detection is finally accurate!

Would be great that they port it to linux, this on linux server + web Ui would be great

I would love to see a video of how you integrated this in with NodeRed.

Wow, this was super informative. I'm somewhat invested on a different NVR (syno), but the pipeline to deepstack is actually very smart and probably I can adapt it. This was inmensely helpful.

Excellent video man, you are an incredibly informative speaker, and your videos have helped me a ton! Keep it up man, you deserve to hit it big!

It seems that at least in my case Blue Iris is extremely temperamental when it comes to creating the JPEGs for whatever reason... I'm having to restart the program every time I change a camera setting because it stops creating JPEGs... EDIT: It's temperamental with creating motion events at night in general, I'm definitely having to tweak motion settings and I completely turned off Object Detection in BI which helped.

@The Hook Up I just relocated my HASSIO and had to redo portainer and deepquestai no longer works with the AI tool out of the box. There is a custom Docker image called deepquestai/deepstack:noavx that works using the configuration you said here. deepquestai/deepstack.latest is now invalid and all ones listed do not work. Hope someone fines this when it doesn't work and saves them some time. I spent hours troubleshooting this. Please consider an update to this video using the last AI Tool which changes how triggers and looks pretty cool.

This is EPIC. I recently bought a Nest Cam and really dislike the lack of customizability (alerts because it's raining -_-). Truth be told I didn't know anything about Home Assistant... I'm slowly going through your videos and realizing I can return those nest cams and get something way more robust!! ... time to build that dedicated pc... Keep up the good work!

Excellent video. I already have most of the same tools running but picked up some good ideas from how you've set things up. Two comments: "limit decoding unless required" is definitely not something to check because it sounds good. It can cause you to miss motion events. See the Blue Iris help for info. Also the AI Tool cool down doesn't work the way you think. It doesn't stop analyzing images during the cool down. It continues to analyze every image and doesn't fire the trigger again for subsequent events that happen within the cool down time. Again mis-use could cause events to be missed.

Did you mention the hardware, specifically poe adapter and how you have your hardware and network set up in this or another video? You mentioned the pc specs but maybe I missed that part. Thanks!

After following your guide, i have come to wonder. It actually looks like that the hd camera is not doing anything. it is basically not being triggered. It is only the sd camera that is triggered, so no alerts will occur from the hd cameras.The AI is analyzing fine, but no signal is being sent to the hd cameras, so there is only low res video and no hd recording going on. and as the hd cameras is not triggered, then there wont be sent a message to the MQTT. So it looks like some part is missing in the video. by the way.. The "Limit decoding unless required" is making the realtime stream stop, so you will only get an image for every 5 second as you set the trigger of the jpeg images to be. so to get live images, it needs to be checked. Edit*** I just realized that the trigger url needs to be the url for the hd camera, and not the sd camera. Might be an idea to add that in the description. My hd cameras is now recording when AI is triggering them

Thanks for the step by step. Got it running in under an hour.

Very good video. You did ALL the leg work.

Thanks for the howto! I've run into an issue where this is reported in the AI Tool Logs "Can't reach DeepQuestAI Server at 192.168.0.2:89" - I can confirm that I can hit the URL on the same machine using a browser and I get the DeepStack screen which says "Your DeepStack Installation is Activated. " I've got no idea why this isn't working?

now to spend the next 3 weeks replicating this in linux :D

I have used BlueIris in the past and it is a fantastic program

Bang up video. Thank you for your work on this. Something I'll be using in my BI system. Cheers

"Capture an alert list image" is no longer a selection. What do I choose now?

Amazing video! I am about to build my first home system and your videos have helped so much, decisions, decisions lol. I'm going for decent quality image, low cost, and want to use an existing computer because i have so many i have built and acquired that are quite decent but need a purpose and you just gave them all some great purposes and me projects for all this time at home. Again thank you for your work.

What a great setup and breakdown of its components I was about to go for Synology ‘s surveillance system but I was holding back on that due to the licensing costs, then this review came up... thank you so much

Hands down best video for installing the best video recording cameras on your home!! And not to be out done HANDS DOWN YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL HOME!!! 👍💯

that mysterious limit decoding saved me about 80% cpu usage thank you

Wew that was huge amount of info. Saving it for later watch when I set up blue iris.

Limit decoding (This is taken from the BlueIris help document for version 5) The option to Limit decoding unless required is another way to manage CPU resources. When enabled, only key frames are normally decoded and displayed. A key frame is a “complete” frame-all other frames rely on key frames in order to be rendered, as they contain only the “changes” from frame to frame. When you select the camera in the main window UI, or if someone is viewing the camera (or one of its groups) via a client app, then all frames will once again be decoded for display. This CPU-saving scheme works great as long as your camera is actually sending an adequate number of key frames. It is recommended to have about 1 key frame/second coming from the camera. This is a setting in the camera’s browser-based settings, usually under a “video encoding” section. It may be labeled as “key frame rate” or “i-frame interval” for example. You can view the actual rate on either the General page in camera settings, or on the Cameras page in Status. It is shown after the overall frame rate-for example 15.0/1.0 indicates 15 fps with 1 key frame/second. A value of 0.5 or less is considered insufficient to use this feature.

this video was SUPER INFORMATIONAL! I liked & Subscribed to you because you have saved me tons of time and money with this video. Awesome stuff! I wish I could like and subscribe 50x times over. Thanks again!

WOW. I had to watch this video about 5 times, but I have now set it up and it is working perfectly. I have also setup flows in Node-RED to trigger lights based on motion detected and send notifications to my iphone via HA - very few false triggers. I would love to see you do a video on the Node-RED side of this. I'm signing up for your Patreon now - this video is absolute gold. Also - I love the pace of your videos - they make my head spin but your instructions are precise and concise. Thanks for all your hard work.

Top ! Great professional work. Keep it up!

This video is a truly hidden gem!

My man, pots-n-pans. Thanks for the hook up.

Thanks for the very deep video, appreciated

Nice tutorial, DeepStack looks like a wonderful piece of software.

Excellent tutorial there. Thanks

This looks so much more powerful than the crappy Unifi Protect! Good job!

I really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.

Solid content. We needed this

Fantastic tutorial as always

Great video, PACKED with info!! I've been doing IT for a long time, and although I kept up with you on the integration run through... which was awesome... I can only imagine how many times people with have to rewind or pause!!! You actually opened up a few ways that I wasn't aware BI could do... and because of some of the CPU overload issues I was having, I was moving to another platform... but I am doing to double check (like I was with watching this) that they may not work. Unfortunately BI ran much heavier then another older WIN based NVR, and the Linux based NVR I am considering.

Thumbs up, so happy to have individuals like yourselves doing these instructive videos. A question, any suggestions to create a watchdog of BI running in HA?

This was the first tutorial video that i've ever seen that made me want to join a patreon... considering the climate i doubt i can stay long but i really wanted to support this level of content

Thanks heaps that was a really great tutorial.

Superb video, many thanks for this!!

One note, for others... Rob sets his "Combine, or cut video's into" 1 hour intervals.... It wasn't till today that i noticed what that actually did.... It will take all clips that get recorded in the particular hour and combine it into one video, If you want more of a Create one video per event.... Lower thins number. Also another setting you might want to play with is, "Cut video when triggered with break time"

I had no idea about home assistant so found that now, thanks

The cameras listed in the description are the ones you use? Really good quality. I would love to do something like this, I'd be starting from scratch with no smart home items and really have no knowledge about this stuff. Watching a lot of your videos and ones you recommend. Great stuff! Wish I new more.

With 1100 "thumbs up" and 6 "thumbs down" it's pretty clear you're on the right track. Keep up the great videos!

I can tell you had a lot of fun setting this up and making the video! You have to know it turned out great! With most of these videos I'm left with questions, but with yours the only thing I'm left with is wanting to do it myself! Perhaps an ALPR video to detect if any car that's not yours enters your driveway is next? I've fiddled with OpenALPR before and really liked it!

Thank you for making this video.

This is awesome! will lhave to implement at the new house.

This is super informative. You should do a video to install this ai in an already existing blue iris install with all the cameras already setup