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

[Rodger3876]

Any Beta Release to try?

 

[Mike]

Any update on a new version?

Any Beta Release to try?

There's nothing to try now. The update bug seemed to go away on Windows 11, at least on every computer I've tested on.

Everything else should be running smooth enough, unless I'm missing something.

 

[Rodger3876]

When do you think you may release the update?

 

[Overcon]

There's nothing to try now. The update bug seemed to go away on Windows 11, at least on every computer I've tested on.

I don't think I can upgrade my Windows 10 to Windows 11 on this server I use for Blue Iris. I am hoping Windows 11 isn't a requirement for the new version. I will upgrade if Windows 11 let me. I mean, it's a Dell Precision T7810 with 190GB of ram and two Xeons with 24 cores, but stupid Microsoft requires that stupid security TPM or whatever to install. Sigh.

 

[Sparkey]

I don't think I can upgrade my Windows 10 to Windows 11 on this server I use for Blue Iris. I am hoping Windows 11 isn't a requirement for the new version. I will upgrade if Windows 11 let me. I mean, it's a Dell Precision T7810 with 190GB of ram and two Xeons with 24 cores, but stupid Microsoft requires that stupid security TPM or whatever to install. Sigh.

You can install Windows 11 manually. i did it on a couple of systems that did not have TPM and they worked just fine but Windows 11 sucks really really bad so I dumped it and went back to 10. You should be able to find the instructions via google. Just search for "Install Windows 11 manually" or "{Windows 11 bypass TPM requirement".

 

[Tayschrenn]

There's nothing to try now. The update bug seemed to go away on Windows 11, at least on every computer I've tested on.

Everything else should be running smooth enough, unless I'm missing something.

For what it's worth, I just posted a thread on WU possibly full send stopping the BIT API pull. I have found a few comments over the last two years suggesting we might need to use a different source for that. No idea how complex that might be to implement though.

 

[TonyR]

@snyperbob,
It's here in upper right corner, blue "Download" rectangle.

never mind...OP deleted question.

 

[Mike]

For what it's worth, I just posted a thread on WU possibly full send stopping the BIT API pull. I have found a few comments over the last two years suggesting we might need to use a different source for that. No idea how complex that might be to implement though.

Can you please post a link to that thread here?

 

[AMP]

Can you please post a link to that thread here?

Maybe @Tayschrenn is talking about this? Doesn't really make sense though, because we're more than 3 months past that date.

Weather Feedback

@Tayschrenn also started a thread of its own on this forum here: API connection down

 

[Chris Moore]

I posted my personal hack for getting weather from a different source here: API connection down
I'm sure it is far from perfect but sharing in case it helps any of you deal with the WU reliability issue that was so frustrating to me.
Many thanks to @Mike for building Blue Iris Tools.

 

[TonyR]

I posted my personal back for getting weather from a different source here: API connection down
I'm sure it is far from perfect but sharing in case it helps any of you deal with the WU reliability issue that was so frustrating to me.
Many thanks to @Mike for building Blue Iris Tools.

^^^^ and it's a great post, too!

 

[Greg S]

Hey Miguel, have you found out anymore about being able to incorporate tides into the overlay?

Anybody figure out how to get Tides?

 

[Greg S]

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.

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

"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.

Did you figure it out?

 

[Greg S]

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

I run a script to delete the txt files once a day so I know they are live

 

[Greg S]

Did you figure it out?

Did you figure it out?

had a friend write a python script that runs once a day... working good. give me txt file like this
H +3.3ft 01:43 AM
L +0.7ft 07:45 AM
H +3.5ft 01:17 PM
L -0.4ft 08:17 PM