Blue Iris Camera Username and Password URL

CrazyAsYou

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Mar 28, 2018
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Can someone advise if it is possible for Blue Iris to pass parameters like the camera username/password into URLs it calls for things like for a preset/ptz or other types camera commands?

For example:
Where camera has IP 192.168.1.100 and is using HTTP port 81
Where camera username is CRAZYAS
Where camera password is STRONGPASSWORD
param=14&value=1
is the camera command to enable IR LEDs​

This is the URL that works direct in a browser

This is the URL that works in Blue Iris
camera_control.cgi?loginuse=CRAZYAS&loginpas=STRONGPASSWORD&param=14&value=1

This is the sort of URL I would like to use in Blue Iris
camera_control.cgi?loginuse=%camusername%&loginpas=%campassword%&param=14&value=1

Where %camusername% and %campassword% are the details from the camera network config section.

So in summary I would like to use the parameters from here:
upload_2018-4-30_7-38-59.png

Somewhere like here:
upload_2018-4-30_7-40-46.png

 
Hey Guys,

Ken has come back to me and said

For version 4.7.6.2 and beyond, you can use

{id}
{pw}

as macros within either the HTTP or POST boxes for these custom PTZ commands.
 
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Haha, I didn't look at the version number properly. I'm only on 4.7.6.0.
... What I mean is I'll dust my time machine so I can go firelward in time to test this out :p