Getting camera Motion Sensor Status

[johngianni]

Hi all, is there anyway to have a sensor that represent the ON OFF status of the motion detection sensor of a camera, please?

Due to the fact that my cameras are frequently covered by spider webs, I would like to have a fast and centralized way to turn off and on the motion detection sensor through HA. I've created a MQTT switch that perfectly turns ON and OFF the motion sensors, but I couldn't find a way to get the current status of the sensor in HA. If someone could point me to the proper code bit of the camera properties I could try to add the Motion Detection ON OFF property. Thank you.

[JOHLC]

You may want to look at configuring profiles in Blue Iris instead. Profiles can be switched using the switches in this integration.

I have 4 profiles configured in Blue Iris Disarmed, Armed: Home, Armed: Away, Disabled

Depending on the mode, I have each camera to either alert or not alert. E.g:

Profile switches in Home Assistant

[RoninATX]

You'll honestly want to do this via MQTT messages, a good guide is watchable here on Youtube - the only part he doesn't show is how to set up your automation afterwards, but you basically just choose Trigger type: MQTT, put your topic name in the topic field, and then "on" or whatever you set the payload value to be for the motion detection.

[kramttocs]

I like this idea