Blue Iris

Release 5.9.9.6

I've been using On Alert/On Reset for a while and both seemingly worked reliably but something changed and the reset has stopped working so likely I've misconfiguration something.

I have an On Alert that pushes to MQTT when zone B and AI has triggered something with person:60. I've read that On Reset fires when all On Alert "has finished." I assume that means when the Maximum Trigger Alert Duration expires on all alerts. Is that correct?

The question for 'On Reset' is do I need to set any zones or select AI the same as on the On Alert that I fired for the On Reset or will On Reset fire when any of the On Alert actions expire? Or are On Alert and On Reset definitions supposed to match - If On Alert needed AI then does On Reset need AI selected and the same zones?

I think I can answer my own question. The On Reset zones and other sources like AI are a filter such that On Reset will only execute actions where the original trigger matched the criteria you enter on the On Reset configuration.

My issue was actually unrelated to this configuration. I had mistakenly set some of the messages to 'MQTT Retain message' which then caused those messages to be reacquired when another message arrived so I was getting old messages before new messages and the new messages arrived sometimes minutes later when yet another message was sent. There is really no reason to set Retain unless the message is some sort of status message. Duh