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I purchased an Apple Watch and for the life of me can’t figure out how to display the URL on it. Any suggestions?
 

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Try this...
  1. Email a URL to yourself.
  2. Open the email on your Watch.
  3. Touch the hyperlink.
Safari will take a moment to load, then hopefully run the web page.

EDIT: this link describes an alternate method using the Blue Iris SMS action.

UI3 URLs used to open just fine, but I just tried it and got this
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Other URLs are working just fine.
 
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BTW, the iOS Pushover app supports the Apple Watch.
On your iPhone, open the Watch app. Add Pushover.

HOWEVER, when the Watch receives a Pushover notification, I'm noticing that the 'Hi-Res' and 'UI3' links are not active.
The URLs work just fine when tapped in the iPhone Pushover app.
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On a slightly different note, and courtesy of another forum, this just popped up as a method for locally storing single alert images which seemed to be a desired feature earlier in this thread. I believe this particular feature was from a request to separate a single confirmed alert image from non-confirmed images for FTP and/or local folder storage vs. the BI directory structure and default method.

Thought it may come in handy for Pushover image manipulation as well if something similar hasn't already been conjured up.

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BI v5.5.5.13 with Deepstack 2022.01.01. I'm looknig to get notifications on Deepstack confirmed alerts ONLY

What a great guide in post #1, thank you!Using macros, if I'm not using a custom sound, should I just delete --form-string "sound=%999" (i didn't define any 999 in registry)
-s --form-string "token=%996" --form-string "user=%997" --form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO" -F "attachment=@D:\BlueIris\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH" --form-string "device="%998" --form-string "sound=%999"

Within each camera configuration;
  • Deepstack - Do I need to enable burn label mark-up on images
  • Within Trigger - Aadd to alerts list - what option within there do I need to choose?

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if I'm not using a custom sound, should I just delete --form-string "sound=%999" (i didn't define any 999 in registry)
Yes.

Within each camera configuration;
  • Deepstack - Do I need to enable burn label mark-up on images
  • Within Trigger - Aadd to alerts list - what option within there do I need to choose?
If (much later than the alert event) you want to view the image via the Pushover notification's 'Hi-Res' hyperlink, it's best to enable 'Burn label mark-up on images' OR add 'Hi-res JPEG files' to the alert list (moved to the Alerts tab in v5.8.0).

OTH, if you don't care about viewing hi-res images, you can remove the 'Hi-Res' hyperlink and not save any alert images for this purpose
 
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Not working for me and here's what I did so far to troubleshoot
  • Pushover website push a test notification working
  • I'm seeing image files generate after deepstack confirms in C:\BlueIris\Alerts.
  • I didn't enable Hi-res JPEG files in Trigger/Add to alerts list (it's showing database only) but I did enable deepstack burn label mark-up
  • Here is my syntax
-s --form-string "token=%996" --form-string "user=%997" --form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO" -F "attachment=@C:\BlueIris\Alerts" --form-string "device="%998"
  • 996 in registry is my API Token from pushover website
  • 997 is my user key from pushover website
  • I didn't enable Hi-res JPEG files in Trigger/Add to alerts list (it's showing database only) but I did enable deepstack burn label mark-up
  • Registry screenshot -

Thanks
 

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Testing at command prompt also failing
C:\Users\BIuser>curl -s --form-string "token=%996" --form-string "user=%997" --form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO" -F "attachment=@C:\BlueIris\Alerts\20240519_160000039.front.13701655.5123-7.15785.16770.jpg" --form-string "device="%998"
{"token":"invalid","errors":["application token is invalid, see Pushover: API"],"status":0,"request":"babeeffd-e180-439d-a18f-bbce0f7d8b9f"}
C:\Users\BIuser>
 

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It's working without using macros so I suspect something is wrongly configured in my registry. This is what I have in blue iris and got an alert

-s --form-string "token=ae6redacted" --form-string "user=udmredacted" --form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO <a href='&WAN/alerts/&ALERT_DB?fulljpeg'>Hi-Res</a> <a href='&WAN/ui3.htm?rec=&ALERT_DB'>UI3</a>" --form-string "html=1" --form-string "device=iphone13" -F "attachment=@C:\BlueIris\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH"
 

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Testing at command prompt also failing
C:\Users\BIuser>curl -s --form-string "token=%996" --form-string "user=%997" --form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO" -F "attachment=@C:\BlueIris\Alerts\20240519_160000039.front.13701655.5123-7.15785.16770.jpg" --form-string "device="%998"
{"token":"invalid","errors":["application token is invalid, see Pushover: API"],"status":0,"request":"babeeffd-e180-439d-a18f-bbce0f7d8b9f"}
C:\Users\BIuser>
The macros work only from Blue Iris Actions. Replace them with actual values.
 
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