Blue Iris Tools - Weather Overlay, Watchdog & more!

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

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How do I download BIT? Every link on this page takes me to the purchase Blue Iris page.





Mike said:
I'm very happy to introduce Blue Iris Tools to everyone. Blue Iris Tools was created to act as a companion to Blue Iris and has a bunch of features built in to help maximize your Blue Iris experience.

Some of the core features of Blue Iris Tools are:
  • Weather Overlays
    • Easily add the local weather to your camera feeds,
    • Easily create Macros for Blue Iris right from BI Tools,
    • Ability to assign all weather conditions to 1 Macro!
    • Retrieve & overlay weather from multiple locations
  • Watchdog
    • If Blue Iris crashes or closes, BI Tools will re-open it
    • Monitor Blue Iris (whether running 'normal' or as a service)
    • Monitor Blue Iris' web server. If BIT cannot connect, activate alerts
    • CPU monitor + CPU Overlay
    • BI folders monitor
    • IP Address monitor (notify if change)
    • Notifications - Get notified if BI crashes via e-mail, push notifications via Pushover (download BIT icon here), by playing a sound, pinging / launching a URL.
  • Web Server File Management
    • Insert Google Analytics into web server files easily,
    • Search & Replace in web server files - manually or automatically
  • Language
    • Create and import custom language phrases and definitions. Language files are available in the 2nd post of this thread. If you created your own, please share it!
  • DDNS Updater & IP Management
    • Automatically update DDNS providers when your IP address changes
  • Log
    • Log all BIT related actions (BIT open / close, etc.)
    • Watchdog (Anytime the Watchdog is triggered - if BI is closed, etc.)
    • Weather Updates (anytime the weather is updated)
    • DDNS Updater (when your IP changes, etc.)
    • CPU Usage (log CPU usage during alerts, etc.)
    • Overlay IP address on camera
  • BI Update Manager
    • Keep previous versions of Blue Iris
    • Easily restore previous BI versions
  • BIT Cloud (New in 1.2.x!)
    • BIT Cloud Remote - Connect to BIT from another remote BIT to view / manage settings and control BIT / BI, etc.
    • BIT Cloud Web Server - A personal website for you to connect to from any browser on any device to check your BIT / BI, including stats, weather, log, cpu, settings, etc.
    • BIT Cloud Watchdog - Remotely monitor a BI or BIT install - with watchdog alerts.

BI Tools uses WUnderground to gather the weather. You can find your nearest station here. I plan on adding more weather providers in the future.

Here are some screenshots of Blue Iris Tools.
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Here are a few examples of the weather on your video feeds. You can select which conditions to show, what units to display and more.
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I have put together athread to act as a 'help file' or a place that provides details and explanations on how to use the software, what each feature and setting does, etc. If you cannot find the answers you are looking for in the help file then you may ask for support in this thread.

A big thanks to the beta team for helping get BIT where it is! Blue Iris Tools was built by me and is offered for free to everyone. I ask that you don't redistribute the software, rather direct people here to download it. I am not a programmer by trade, I just wanted to put together this software to help out the Blue Iris community. I expect bugs to crop up throughout the early releases but I plan on building and maintaining BI Tools long term, so if you do find bugs or have issues don't worry, whatever it is I will take care of. Just let me know. Please don't hesitate to leave your suggestions or feedback as well. I want to build and expand BI Tools as much as possible and have a lot of really good ideas that will make their way into future releases.

I plan on updating this thread when I release updates and will use it as a centralized location to discuss BI Tools. Please visit this thread for the help file and see the 2nd post in this thread for language files.

Current Release
Nov 26, 2018 - v.1.2.3 - If you already have BIT then update via BIT. If not, download "Blue Iris Tools v.1.2.3 Installer.zip" below

Upcoming
-Send commands via BIT Cloud Web Server pages
-More info & controls from BIT Cloud Web Server and BIT Cloud Remote
-"My BIT Cloud" - Personal storage space to backup BIT, BI & more.
-BIT Cloud API
-Add custom CSS and HTML to the web server pages

Download & Installation Instructions
  • Blue Iris Tools v1.2.3 Installer.zip - For new installations download Blue Iris Tools v1.2.2 Installer.zip and extract the files. From there, run setup.exe. If your web browser or firewall flags it, disable during installation. If you encounter errors during the install, please 'ignore' them if possible. If you have a previous version of BIT, make sure it is closed. Always check for an update after installation.
  • bit-update.zip - If you are upgrading from a previous version of BIT that did not use the installer then download the bit-update.zip file, close BIT if it is running and extract the contents over your previous installation of Blue Iris tools. You may also download and install via the installer if you like. All future versions will be updated via BIT itself.
  • error-files only for issues.zip - Only use this if you are unable to properly install or run BIT, then download the contents of "error-files only for issues.zip" and extract them to a directory of your choice. Run BIT from there. If you are still having issues then please post in this thread.
Donate
I have been asked several times about accepting a donation for my work, so I finally decided to set up an easy way to do so. While it's not obligated, it's certainly appreciated. Blue Iris Tools is free and always will be free, but if you would like to make a donation, you may do so by clicking here - Donate to Blue Iris Tools
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Read the ENTIRE first post. At the very bottom are links to BIT, a BIT update if you already have it installed and an error log information file. It's right there, behind the milk! Just look, really look and not scan a page.
 
I seem to have an issue that keeps creeping up. Every time theirs an update blue iris tools fails. it downloads and then the dialog disappears. so far i have had to reinstall blue iris tools every update. what am i missing? i have a win 7 machine 64 bit.
 
HackitZ said:
I seem to have an issue that keeps creeping up. Every time theirs an update blue iris tools fails. it downloads and then the dialog disappears. so far i have had to reinstall blue iris tools every update. what am i missing? i have a win 7 machine 64 bit.
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IDK, firewall maybe?

IDLE said:
Finally got the webserver working. When is the cloud feature coming? I was using istatview to see the status of the PC and was hoping to stop using it.
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The cloud feature is already there. Download the latest. "My BIT Cloud" is coming in 2019 :D
 
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Read the ENTIRE first post. At the very bottom are links to BIT, a BIT update if you already have it installed and an error log information file. It's right there, behind the milk! Just look, really look and not scan a page.
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The BIT link I get is for 1.1.2, not the latest. I can't figure out ANY way to download the latest. If I download, 1.1.2 will it update to the latest??

Really frustrating.

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keithnet said:
The BIT link I get is for 1.1.2, not the latest. I can't figure out ANY way to download the latest. If I download, 1.1.2 will it update to the latest??

Really frustrating.

I attached a screenshot.
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Download it then update via the program.
 
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keithnet said:
The BIT link I get is for 1.1.2, not the latest. I can't figure out ANY way to download the latest. If I download, 1.1.2 will it update to the latest??

Really frustrating.
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Did you try BIT's "Help" as shown below? It will take you to the latest help online, here. Scroll down to "Options", "Check for Update."

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It's not difficult to update to the latest version once installed. I didnt need help to figure that out, but downloading the old version and not the latest via this thread is not clear. The first post seems to indicate you can download and install the latest version. I'd much rather have done that than install something old.

I'm all set now, but that first post is confusing and frustrating.
 
@Mike ,
Any thoughts on the scrambled BIT overlay here, the green text at upper left?
The live cam is good and playing BI's .BVR is good...only the MP4 export has a garbled text.

EDIT: 1/7/19 0730 CT, Fixed issue, solution here.
 
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Mike, thanks for the great functionality you created with BIT, I have been looking for this for awhile. No problems installing or configuring everything, you can see the overlays in action on my weather site, Observatory West Weather. My only request would be a way to create a text file with several selectable datapoints (like temp, pressure, wind) only, instead of either one datapoint or all. I can do it manually by creating several macros but having 1 do several things (but not everything) would be great. Keep up the great work!
 
Mike West said:
Mike, thanks for the great functionality you created with BIT, I have been looking for this for awhile. No problems installing or configuring everything, you can see the overlays in action on my weather site, Observatory West Weather. My only request would be a way to create a text file with several selectable datapoints (like temp, pressure, wind) only, instead of either one datapoint or all. I can do it manually by creating several macros but having 1 do several things (but not everything) would be great. Keep up the great work!
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That feature is built in, use the "Everything" option. That will save all of the values into a text file.
 
Mike said:
That feature is built in, use the "Everything" option. That will save all of the values into a text file.
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Thanks, I understand the everything option, I was actually talking about selecting several, but not all, sensors to be combined in 1 file.
 
I posted this question in the "Chit Chat" area, couldn't find this thread for the life of me. Blame it on a senior moment.

Is there a way to edit the "wind description" to reduce the length of the displayed text or even break it into two separate lines of text? I checked the help file and didn't see anything there, but that could be another senior thing.
 
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