Thanks for the clarification. I'll have to learn a bit more about BI and ONVIF before asking any more. I agree that pixel based motion detection is bad (thinks a shadow is motion) but I wasn't clear if BI could use the built-in camera object detection. Sounds like Yes - It can.

Thanks for the reply IAmATeaf ! As I'm new to BI I want to make sure I understand this correctly... You're new cameras with Intelligent Video Surveillance are still in Blue Iris but NOT using Deepstack? How are you getting the alert to Blue Iris so that it can do it's magic? I've attached a pic of t...

I'm looking at a few newer cameras and many now come with built in "AI Person Detection". If Blue Iris is configured with Deepstack, is this camera feature even useful or is it just redundant ?