To answer YrbkMgr's question... I want to see whether I can get an external IR motion sensor to trigger my cameras to reduce false positives. In particular, I understand some IR detectors are good at identifying people instead of inanimate objects, small pets, moving shadows, reflections off puddles...

I spent several hours this evening trying to work out how to trigger a camera in Blue Iris from the command line without: - reducing security for web access authentication - sending passwords in URLs - hard-coding any passwords in clear text in scripts The only method I could find which met all 3 ab...