Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

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

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I would also like to just have the wind direction reported in 1-3 characters (like ESE) instead of the full wind description (like "Wind Desc.: From the ESE @ 4.6 MPH, gusting to 4.6 MPH"). I've searched through this entire thread and saw someone else mention it. Does anyone know if this is currently possible?


AMP said:
Thanks for your time and energy in developing this software. It's awesome!

I have a feature request that should be relatively easy add since you already grab a variety of weather data. Can you please add dew point? Dew point is used in meteorology much more than relative humidity to give indication of human comfort.
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I can not install Blue Iris Tools can any one help me ?
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Hi guys.
I have read all forum entries, I have updated BIT. In spite of this, I still publish rain data in inches instead of millimeters. I have not seen the option to change it either. Any ideas?.
Greetings to all
 
Fer Ini said:
Hi guys.
I have read all forum entries, I have updated BIT. In spite of this, I still publish rain data in inches instead of millimeters. I have not seen the option to change it either. Any ideas?.
Greetings to all
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Did you try to set it to Celsius and km/h?
 
Fer Ini said:
Good morning Mike. I just got the station "offline", if I get it back on line, I'll explain.
Thank you.
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Sounds good. I'll finally be releasing an update soon that will support some new features like multi station support and more.
 
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I just wanted to ask about how much CPU this package uses if you know roughly. The reason I ask is that I just did a new install and where I used to have the CPU run about 65-80% I am now running at 27%, but I haven't installed this package yet. I was just getting ready to but thought I would ask and see if anyone knows.

Thanks.
 
Overcon said:
I just wanted to ask about how much CPU this package uses if you know roughly. The reason I ask is that I just did a new install and where I used to have the CPU run about 65-80% I am now running at 27%, but I haven't installed this package yet. I was just getting ready to but thought I would ask and see if anyone knows.

Thanks.
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its not related to this...you had something else going on, this uses almost zero.
 
For tides: I can run the following API and get the results as shown. Dates are collapsed for both readability and to hide identifying info. Next step is to figure out how to 1) get the query to execute on intervals and 2) parse the results for display on the overlay.

I'd like to display the next high and low tide times.

Code: 
http://api.wunderground.com/api/[xxxx]/tide/q/pws:[yyyy].json

Code: 
"tideSummary":[

    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"1.28 ft",
            "type":"High Tide"
        }
    },
    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"",
            "type":"Sunset"
        }
    },
    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"-0.08 ft",
            "type":"Low Tide"
        }
    },
    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"",
            "type":"Moonrise"
        }
    },
    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"1.22 ft",
            "type":"High Tide"
        }
    },
    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"",
            "type":"Sunrise"
        }
    },
    {
        "date":{},
        "utcdate":{},
        "data":{
            "height":"0.06 ft",
            "type":"Low Tide"
        }
    },


Edit - I found some sample code that will let me do this parsing so I'll just build that app and roll in the other feature I've been using which is Lets Encrypt certificates.
 
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I there is way for BIT to inform me via email or overlay on the camera screen the IP address the BI server is running....like in the example below ...




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Not to my knowledge. Hate to request but need to blank values of wx when errors occur. I donned gloves n a hat not knowing it was 40 outside because inet stopped.
 
I know this is probably a dumb question but if Blue Iris Tools is not running, should the weather info still be updating on my video streams?
 
piconut said:
I know this is probably a dumb question but if Blue Iris Tools is not running, should the weather info still be updating on my video streams?
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Don't think so. When I restarted my PC and forgot to run Blue Iris Tools, the weather info didn't update anymore. Took me like 5 hours before I noticed :D
 
MikeL said:
Also, the 'run as a service' option doesn't seem to work for me. I always need to restart it manually after a power outage.
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you can set BIT to auto start using taskscheduler the same way you can with blue iris if you want to auto start the full console...there are several threads discussing how to do that..
 
I was sure that the weather was updating without BI Tools running because I did not see the round blue BI Tools icon anywhere in the Taskbar or the Icon tray. So this is why I asked. However, after some more searching I realized that I had created a network service to automatically start BI Tools as a service so it doesn't ever show that it is actually running. When I first tried to get that set up (using NSSM, the Non-Sucking Service Manager) I thought NSSM wasn't working because I never saw the BI Tools icon anywhere. So I gave up and now realize that NSSM did in fact work. So even though there is no visual evidence of BI Tools running, it is running in the background and the weather stays updated.
 
I wanted to use the built in settings of BI Tools but I could never get it to work with any of the elevated settings of Windows User Account Control (UAC). That is why I went with NSSM. If anyone knows a way to use BITool with UAC, please chime in.
 
piconut said:
I wanted to use the built in settings of BI Tools but I could never get it to work with any of the elevated settings of Windows User Account Control (UAC). That is why I went with NSSM. If anyone knows a way to use BITool with UAC, please chime in.
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Yes..task scheduler...works perfectly...
 
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