you are using a 3 year old version...update to the latest.In order to use UI3, what is the minimum version of BI that I have to be using?
I am currently using BI 4.1.9.2 and it is working very well.
Something to keep in mind... if you are also adding other dynamic text overlays to the video (e.g., weather info via Blue Iris Tools BIT), unlike the time stamp they are not encoded back into the playback stream when you apply this setting. You WILL see text overlays, but they will be the currently displayed overlays, NOT the actual overlays from the time of the clip. In other words, the overlay information you see in the playback will not be time-relevant to the clipThis is something recently added to the camera properties > Webcast tab.
In my screenshot the box is unchecked:
Been running BI for years and never tried this interface until I saw it was included, lol running it to watch my cams at work now, liking it so far.UI3 makes no guarantee of backwards-compatibility with older BI versions. Many aspects of UI3 rely on relatively recent Blue Iris changes. UI3 comes with Blue Iris now, so the recommended way to install/update UI3 is to simply update Blue Iris.
yup but my cameras clock always drifts .... I need to set up a proper NTP server for themYup, it is best to have the camera embed its own timestamp overlay so that it exists in the source recordings and you don't need BI to re-embed the overlay later.
No. There are only the URL parameters described in UI3's help file, but using those would require relaunching the whole UI in order to change streams.Is there a way to push commands to UI3 so that it can bring one group, camera to focus? My clients run external applications for motion sensing and other events and would love to be able to bring a specific camera to focus in the UI. I'm already integrating into BI via JSON, but there's no way to go one step further and manipulate the GUI/WebUI right now.
@bp2008 Related to BeeryGaz's question. If I have a camera group, is there a way to add/remove cameras from that group via API call?No. There are only the URL parameters described in UI3's help file, but using those would require relaunching the whole UI in order to change streams.
Thanks for the reply, the two modes do look much closer in the group view once I changed all the settings and limited group FPS to 5 instead of 10. And in the single camera mode, the 2160p is definitely much nicer looking. I had hidden the PTZ controls on the app a long time ago so I had actually never seen those group options until today!@polldav
First, make sure your group frame size is decent here. By default it only comes out at around 720p resolution which sucks on a large display.
For a long time, Blue Iris always streamed H.264 camera groups at their native frame size (as set in the location above). That changed a few months ago so that resolution limits in streaming profiles can cause camera groups to be streamed at a lower resolution.
Jpeg HD is a much simpler but less efficient streaming method. UI3's 2160p profile should be the same in terms of image quality and deliver a better frame rate with less bandwidth usage.
I noticed in a few specific places only - I made a Jpg/2160 comparison if you're curious. It's nothing huge, just a few spots get that video compression look. I've had BI for a few years now and it has always looked like the top half of this image so it stood out when I upgraded. I didn't put all the settings back to what they were originally so this image is much closer than it started out.Yeah, it is something like that. I'm surprised you notice a quality difference in the group stream at 5 FPS vs 10 FPS though. The 2160p streaming profile sets a bit rate limit of 8 Mbps which is plenty high enough for 4K @ 10 FPS.