Blue Iris

I am trying to use MQTT (from home assistant using mosquito) to change the profile.

I am currently receiving motion detection notifications. My Blue Iris setup under alerts uses the following topic - and this is working successfully.
Topic: blue_iris/doorbell_motion/state
Payload: ON

When I try to use MQTT to change the profile in Blue Iris, I'm not having any success. I tried using the topic (BlueIris/admin), with payload (profile=1&lock=2), with no response.

I also tried a simple MQTT monitor request. I tried using (BlueIris/app), with payload (running) or payload (stopped) to see if I could get a response from Blue Iris, also with no luck.

I'm confused that I'm able to receive motion detection over MQTT, but none of the standard messages.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

Bump, just started a Home Assistant setup and will eventually get to this use case.

I just installed HA using the Hyper-V image and went through the process of enabling the Community Store and getting the BI Add-on working.

I just have the basics working for now.

I enabled the MQTT broker, NodeRed, BI and only one or two other add-ons.

Next up is doing something useful with the alerts in HA.

Bumping this just to refresh the dialog.

Are you using NodeRed to try and set the mode?

I do this by having node red use the web url to set the profile

If HA is in mode Home I activate profile 1 with http://BI-IP/admin?profile=1&lock=2&user=HAUSER&pw=HAPASSWORD

The node is called an http request