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My WU page is up to date, showing 19 seconds ago. I stopped uploading webcam images early this year out of disgust. WU has turned into a crap fest.
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Ssayer
BIT Beta Team
This post link provides an example of how web-based personal weather station data (or any other web page) can be displayed within Blue Iris as a camera. This particular example involves showing data from a WeatherFlow Tempest. While not an overlay, it allows any web page you'd like to capture and display within Blue Iris.
Hope this helps.
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Hope this helps.
Working: Headless Scheduled Web Page Screen Shots as a Blue Iris 5 Camera
Thought I'd post a solution I came up with to automatically take headless scheduled screen shots of a web page, and display the most current version of the screen shot as a Blue Iris 5 camera. I looked for an existing Blue Iris based solution for my particular need but couldn't find one. After...
Is this one of those THINGS that I can use the API download from Home Assistant for my Ambient Weather Station and somehow migrate the specifics into a camera overlay? Hmm...project #78!
I'm still here and haven't forgotten about the issue. Been a hellish 2020 but things are calming down. TBH I already re-wrote the code for updates but I'm not 100% sold on it, so I have to spend some more time to get it perfect. Thanks for the patience!
Great to hear from you, it's all good, man....
Hi. Not sure if this is the place to post this, but I couldn't find any other.
Since a while now, I noticed that BItools keeps switching back to the Imperial system. Since I don't live in Liberia of Myanmar I would like it to stick to the metric system.
The settings are saved into the INI file, but they seem to be ignored when BItools starts. The settings are, puzzling as they may be:
[Other Weather]
Units=0
F=°C
MPH=km/h
Thanks in advance.
Since a while now, I noticed that BItools keeps switching back to the Imperial system. Since I don't live in Liberia of Myanmar I would like it to stick to the metric system.
The settings are saved into the INI file, but they seem to be ignored when BItools starts. The settings are, puzzling as they may be:
[Other Weather]
Units=0
F=°C
MPH=km/h
Thanks in advance.
This is a known problem and has been reported a number of times - here for example:
The metric lovers out here are all anxiously awaiting an update.
The metric lovers out here are all anxiously awaiting an update.
"Metric lovers", I love it!
But yeah, I am not part of the 5.09% of earth dwellers that uses Imperial.
So I gues I will wait it out and check back in a few months. Thanks for the feedback.
I am looking forward to get an update so that BIT doesn't change to Imperial system every time the app starts up.
Thanks!
I am getting a TLS error when trying to click the "Version can't connect..." Go back to the last page and change settings..." What settings does it want me to change?
@miles267 Until there is an update, this should be what you need.
The program otherwise continues to function very well on my system.
I'm attempting to control lighting and other features in my smart home with luminescence. It is working beautifully by pulling values from OpenWeatherMap. One item I'd like to have is the ability to see the outdoor luminescence in my BI Tools overlay. I see the UV index (which doesn't ever have any value for me) but I don't see Lux or Luminescence. It would be valuable to have this display as a param/option with the other outdoor info I get. Any chance someone has found a way or modded this old but fantastic tool?
If you (the program) can write that value into a text file, then create a macro in BIT to display it.
More info here in Blue Iris Tool Help => Weather Overlay
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what a struggle - and still no success. Your suggestion was in the ballpark I was already exploring but I never did succeed. Here's my problem: I use Hubitat for a smart home foundation. They have no file accessibility externally. I'm using a driver called OpenWeatherMap to access the values for numerous weather related variables - including UV and Lux (called Illuminensce in their vernacular). The device has the ability to write local files - but they are only accessible as a web page. so I store 2 values to variables, then write then out and all looks great. Except they have no file system for me to hook into. You can't 'see' this device accept as a web page. I attempted to form the URL in different ways hoping BITs would handle but never succceded. The values update every 15 minutes btw. the file I create is available as: and when accessed, shows perfectly - but I can't think of a way short of writing a program to run every 15 minutes and capture that page and then save it to txt with some form of automation. I know I'm overlooking something obvious! I get a perfect file and result but I can't seem to sneak it into Bits or BI. Any other suggestions?
Jim
Jim
certainly not the solution you are looking for, but there are two utilities i use to capture web pages. Siteshoter and web2img Both capture a web page (or portion of) on a schedule and save an image (jpg) to a specified folder. I use them to grap snapshots of sites on a schedule and then aggregate the images into a BI camera for a all-in-one weather stop (radar image, satellite image, current time, temp, humidity, heat index/wind chill, last time updated and 7 day forecast image.
probably closer to what you are asking is a web scraper like UiPath or HTMLtoText, then you would just need to parse it to find the specific data out of the results, which i would think should be pretty easy.
probably closer to what you are asking is a web scraper like UiPath or HTMLtoText, then you would just need to parse it to find the specific data out of the results, which i would think should be pretty easy.
thanks for the replies! I will say I've got it solved. it's not elegant but I'll detail it here in hopes it helps another.
First - BITools or BITs is awesome and I love this little item! I use Hubitat as the center of my smart home. This product has an add on (community written) that connects to OpenWeatherMap. This service provides tons of things including images, forecast data, and a myriad of parameters, including UV and Luminescence (I'm going to call lumens for now). Bits, which does have UV, pulls it's data from Wunderground.com and the UV value is no longer being provided. Add that to Wunderground not having a luminescence value is what started me on this path.
I use the lumens value in my smart home to determine if a light should go on in a room when someone enters. I also want to use it as a Trigger in BlueIris to have the camera change from Day/Night in a controlled way. The Automatic Day/Night I have on my security cameras is mediocre at best.
So I wanted to use BITs to display the Lumens and UV values so I could monitor and fine tune my cameras. Okay. so thats the background.
HUbitat is a web based device. It has NO file management. but recently it has begun allowing storing of files in a Local folder. This is a recent thing and still in Beta. So - I write a 'rule' in hubitat, that it takes the values of UV and Lumens from OpenWeatherMap and saves them to a variable, then writes those 2 variables into a txt file and stores that file in the Local folder. I have this 'rule' run every 15 minutes, and overwrite the existing file with the latest values.
I then installed in my CamServer where BI runs (a Windows 2012 machine) a VERY old tool called Wget - a sort of 'walker' or 'spider' as we used to call it, and call that local file but in Html format. ie; '192.168.x.x/local/uv_lumens.txt' and then write THAT output into a txt file in the bits folder. I also force the wget to do an overwrite of the file... This works perfectly!
FInally, I simply added a scheduled task in Windows to run a batch file of this Wget line and scheduled it for every 10 minutes. It would be hard to set schedules on both the hubitat and scheduled tasks so they fired in proper order, so I opted for this 'cheat' method.
I then went into Bits, updated one of the macro values to point at my newly created file and placed in the camera overlay and ... viola. success!
First - BITools or BITs is awesome and I love this little item! I use Hubitat as the center of my smart home. This product has an add on (community written) that connects to OpenWeatherMap. This service provides tons of things including images, forecast data, and a myriad of parameters, including UV and Luminescence (I'm going to call lumens for now). Bits, which does have UV, pulls it's data from Wunderground.com and the UV value is no longer being provided. Add that to Wunderground not having a luminescence value is what started me on this path.
I use the lumens value in my smart home to determine if a light should go on in a room when someone enters. I also want to use it as a Trigger in BlueIris to have the camera change from Day/Night in a controlled way. The Automatic Day/Night I have on my security cameras is mediocre at best.
So I wanted to use BITs to display the Lumens and UV values so I could monitor and fine tune my cameras. Okay. so thats the background.
HUbitat is a web based device. It has NO file management. but recently it has begun allowing storing of files in a Local folder. This is a recent thing and still in Beta. So - I write a 'rule' in hubitat, that it takes the values of UV and Lumens from OpenWeatherMap and saves them to a variable, then writes those 2 variables into a txt file and stores that file in the Local folder. I have this 'rule' run every 15 minutes, and overwrite the existing file with the latest values.
I then installed in my CamServer where BI runs (a Windows 2012 machine) a VERY old tool called Wget - a sort of 'walker' or 'spider' as we used to call it, and call that local file but in Html format. ie; '192.168.x.x/local/uv_lumens.txt' and then write THAT output into a txt file in the bits folder. I also force the wget to do an overwrite of the file... This works perfectly!
FInally, I simply added a scheduled task in Windows to run a batch file of this Wget line and scheduled it for every 10 minutes. It would be hard to set schedules on both the hubitat and scheduled tasks so they fired in proper order, so I opted for this 'cheat' method.
I then went into Bits, updated one of the macro values to point at my newly created file and placed in the camera overlay and ... viola. success!
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Ssayer
BIT Beta Team
I've been using Siteshoter without issues (not trying to jinx myself here). I'm running two instances of it to get me the images below (7 day forecast is every 10min and radar is every 2 min).