Security & safety

Blue Iris

kramttocs/ha-blueiris · v2026.10.02

HACSLocal polling

Home Assistant Integration with Blue Iris Video Security Software

In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge

What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.

Entity	Shows up as	Note
`switch`	Switch or outlet
`camera`	Camera	Needs its own HomeKit Bridge in accessory mode
`binary_sensor`	Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…)
`sensor`	Sensor (temperature, humidity, air quality…)
`select`	Mode picker (as switches)

What people report

Blue Iris NVR integration; one user reports camera streams rarely loading compared to the older elad-bar integration.

Works3
Partly works1

Device	In Home Assistant	What they said	Source
Amcrest cameras	Works Local	Used with Blue Iris NVR and Frigate; Google Coral TPU recommended Saved copy I really like my Amcrest cameras with Blue Iris NVR. Along with using Frigate for Home Assistant. Make sure if you want to use Frigate to get a Google Coral TPU. Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.	Reddit comment · 2022-02
Blue Iris NVR	Works Local	Windows NVR with Home Assistant integration Saved copy Blue Iris will run on any Windows machine and has home assistant integration. Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.	Reddit comment · 2024-03
Dahua IP cameras	Works	Run 14 cameras with Blue Iris; Frigate detects humans better Saved copy … break in, the feeling of violation and loss of security must be unpleasant above and beyond anything physical that was taken. I run 11 PoE and 3 PoE+ cameras which are all Dahua that I bought from Empire Tech/Loryta. I use Blue Iris as my main NVR for recording footage 24/7 with motion triggering BI to mark that event on my timeline. Additionally I am also running Frigate NVR on another machine which is paired with a Coral AI Google TPU USB stick. Frigate is monitoring the stream from my front door camera and performs person detection which because of the Coral AI is very quick. Frigate does … Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23.	Reddit comment · 2023-09
Blue Iris camera streams	Partly works Local	Streams often fail to load for one user; audio param added Saved copy … explaining the errors with your integration is the same problem that was reported in the elad's integration. ``` 2026-09-20 14:02:37.736 DEBUG [...api.blue_iris_api] Blue Iris cmd=status result=success has_session=True 2026-09-20 14:02:37.736 DEBUG [...coordinator] Finished fetching blueiris:01M2VC298FZDDBNWNSMYR6DNM5 data in 0.007 seconds (success: True) 2026-09-20 14:02:45.611 DEBUG [...api.blue_iris_api] Not logged in; logging in 2026-09-20 14:02:45.734 DEBUG [...api.blue_iris_api] Blue Iris cmd=status result=success has_session=True 2026-09-20 14:02:45.734 DEBUG [...coordinator] … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #36 · 2026-09

Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.

How it connects

Local polling

Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.

Details

Installs (analytics)	1,350 (0.19%)
GitHub stars	23
Latest version	2026.10.02 (2026-10-21)
Set up in the UI	Yes
Maintainers	@kramttocs
License	Apache-2.0

In ReReHome

Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.

Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.

Sources

Documentation: https://github.com/kramttocs/ha-blueiris
Source code: https://github.com/kramttocs/ha-blueiris
Issues: https://github.com/kramttocs/ha-blueiris/issues
HACS: https://hacs.xyz