Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more! 1.6.0

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@Bapski I looked at your installation and believe the watchdog folder monitor is slowing down your BIT. Please try keeping that disabled and see if that helps. I don't see any issues with BIT, otherwise.

For everyone else who may be having similar issues...The issue with @Bapski not receiving wind direction was due to the weather station not reporting it.
 
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Mike said:
@Bapski I looked at your installation and believe the watchdog folder monitor is slowing down your BIT. Please try keeping that disabled and see if that helps. I don't see any issues with BIT, otherwise.
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thank you for your time.

I MAY have found the main culprit as well, ME!. I was logging in to my BI server remotely and everytime Im done tinkering with BI/BIT settings I would log out so this essentially was closing BIT as well. hence when I log back in, it took a long time to open BIT GUI along with the WATCHDOG FOLDER monitor enable.

after I realized this, I log-in remotely and not log-out and so far my WEATHER OVERLAY is up to date... (fingers crossed)..

thanks again for your time...
 
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thank you for your time.

I MAY have found the main culprit as well, ME!. I was logging in to my BI server remotely and everytime Im done tinkering with BI/BIT settings I would log out so this essentially was closing BIT as well. hence when I log back in, it took a long time to open BIT GUI along with the WATCHDOG FOLDER monitor enable.

after I realized this, I log-in remotely and not log-out and so far my WEATHER OVERLAY is up to date... (fingers crossed)..

thanks again for your time...
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My pleasure. Just keep BIT open all the time and you won't have any issues.
 
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Major new feature coming soon. Blue Iris Tools Remote - Monitor your Blue Iris Tools and Blue Iris from a remote location, with watchdog alerts, etc.
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excited and cant wait to try it.. :)
 
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A little sneak peek...UI most likely to change a bit.

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No more TeamViewer or UltraViewer to provide direct BIT support, I'm building it in :D More details to follow.
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Multiple locations is still preliminary, I don't expect it to be done in the next update. BIT Remote will be, though.
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@Mike with the updated BIT. will this give us the opportunity to force restart BI remotely?

my BI was down the whole day today for some reason . i also have BIT setup to send me alerts but never get any except for when i do a TEST send.
 
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@Mike with the updated BIT. will this give us the opportunity to force restart BI remotely?

my BI was down the whole day today for some reason . i also have BIT setup to send me alerts but never get any except for when i do a TEST send.
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Sorry for the delay, been sick as a dog. I am planning on incorporating a remote restart of BI functionality into the new BIT Remote section :)

Alerts should be working unless they are configured wrong as I don't really hear of other users having issues with alerts. Which alert isn't working? I HIGHLY suggest setting up Pushover, that's what I use on all my BI machines and it's flawless.

Another update - looks like multiple weather updates may be ready sooner than later. I made really great progress on it, but the amount of stations will be limited for several reasons...Most likely to 20 - 30.
 
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Mike said:
Sorry for the delay, been sick as a dog. I am planning on incorporating a remote restart of BI functionality into the new BIT Remote section :)

Alerts should be working unless they are configured wrong as I don't really hear of other users having issues with alerts. Which alert isn't working? I HIGHLY suggest setting up Pushover, that's what I use on all my BI machines and it's flawless.

Another update - looks like multiple weather updates may be ready sooner than later. I made really great progress on it, but the amount of stations will be limited for several reasons...Most likely to 20 - 30.
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Hope you get better soon! Looking forward to using the update...


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Stupid question. Built myself a new BI box, backed up my old BIT config, but can't for the life of me find where to import it?
 
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I only have weather overlay, watchdog, web server, and options tabs

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I misunderstood the question as updating bi itself...simply replace the settings file created in the backup with the settings file in program file x86>blue iris tools.
 
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I misunderstood the question as updating bi itself...simply replace the settings file created in the backup with the settings file in program file x86>blue iris tools.
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Ah got it. So the backup actually created 3 files. Lang (empty folder), stations.ipct, and settings. Moved all 3 to the new systems BIT folder overwriting the old stuff) and walaa were back in biz.
 
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Been running BIT for a while now and have a question about the weather automatically updating. It seems that BIT will not update the weather until the computer is logged in. I have it set to start with Windows, however it is not updating. Is this expected behavior or am I missing something?
 
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Been running BIT for a while now and have a question about the weather automatically updating. It seems that BIT will not update the weather until the computer is logged in. I have it set to start with Windows, however it is not updating. Is this expected behavior or am I missing something?
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Yes, thatis normal because BIT doesn't run as a service by default - something I have been wanting to add for a while and hopefully will.
 
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Hey Mike!
I'm obviously doing something wrong. I've been using noip.com as my ddns provider for some time now using their tool to update my hostname. Today, I figured that since I'm using your great tool anyway, why not have it do this as well. In BIT, I selected noip.com and filled in Hostname, Username/E-Mail, and Password. Then I selected Enabled and did the Manual Update/Test. I get a popup box that says, Error #5 - Invalid procedure call or argument. I checked, rechecked and re-rechecked my info for the hostname, username, and password. Does the Error #5 message give a clue as to what I've done wrong?

Thanks!
 
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