Camera Names in UI3

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I recently updated my BI server to 5.5.0.9. Prior to the upgrade, camera names were displayed on the colored bar above each camera window when viewing the cameras on the server. However, camera names didn't appear when viewing cameras from the UI3 web interface. Now, all cameras are displaying the camera name in the UI3.

Is there a way to disable camera names from appearing in the UI3 web interface while still having them shown on the server?
 

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For example I personally want my group streams to always have the same arrangement of cameras so I can more instinctively locate each one, so I also use the option to lock the aspect ratio.
 

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Yes. If you are on the latest Blue Iris, you can right click the video player in UI3 and choose "Group Layout" where you will find the ability to disable camera names and borders. Among other things.
So if I do as you say, I can disable the "camera names" but my cameras stay the same size. There's still a big void between all my cameras where the names were.

Is there a way to get my cameras to fill the screen better, like they did before this ui3 update? I tried downgrading to an older version and the cameras for sure don't fill the page as well as before. I much prefer the cameras to just fill the whole page as efficiently as possible. Maybe it doesn't help I have 49 cameras...

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@Jaceon

Ok, so that is a little tricky right now.

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The Frame > "Aspect" and Frame > "Height" submenus both let you select "Auto" or one of a few predefined choices. The ability to put in a Custom aspect or height is not enabled yet. So at this time I recommend leaving both Aspect and Height on Auto (this is default) and then in UI3, resize your browser window until the camera layout is how you like it. Then use UI3's context menu to lock the aspect ratio (Group Layout submenu).

One other point. If you are a person who values filling the screen over preserving aspect ratio, you can use Blue Iris's group layout editor to unlock the aspect ratio for the cameras. It is found in the context menu > Camera > Aspect > Scale to fill. Then you can use the Copy to all cameras option.

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Alrighty, I'll play with that, appreciate it.
I guess I'm noticing something that's making this a little trickier in my scenario, is I have a handful of cameras that are inverted. Makes things a little wonky when doing the "scale to fill" but I still think I like that better than standard so that'll do.
Thanks again for all you do.
 
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