As another follow up. I was able to get the motion sensing from Blue Iris camera to work as well and to send a trigger to Homekit. It seems to be very quick and configuring the automation in Homekit to turn on a light when motion is detected is easy. This method doesn't require any email servers or ...

Following up to my own post. The key to solving my issue on the Docker install of Homebridge on my Synology was to property install ffmpeg using "apk add --no-cache ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs" in the startup.sh file and then changing one configuration in Blue Iris which was Options --> Webserver -...

I have been trying to follow the few examples out there on how to get Blue Iris to work with Homekit via Homebridge and have not been successful. I have successfully installed Homebridge on my Synology in a Docker container, added a Nest platform and can actively monitor my Nest smoke detectors from...