Is there a way to set the watchdog notification for the BI web server to say, 30 or 60 seconds? It sends me an email even when I do an update, so I know it works well, just would like to have it set to wait at least 60 seconds before it "barks" 
- Thread starter Mike
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I use Blue Iris 5.2.7.1 on Windows 10 Pro (64 bit) plus Blue Iris Tools 1.6 and it works great. I have Watchdog (program monitor) enabled and it works great to restart BI on a shutdown. It there a way to AutoStart BI without a username/password dialog? I use Local_Console plus password as user now.
In BI Settings, Startup, select run as a service. BI will be recording/web works,etc. If you want to view locally you have to open BI
Tomtreas
n3wb
Any status on when my other cameras can no longer say that the temperature is 999 degrees?? Been waiting on the multiple updates for a little while. ANy news on that being fixed?
I’ve never seen that problem. Temp has always been spot on. This info is pulled from your WS. I’m curios why you get that.
Tomtreas
n3wb
I think you missed "other cameras". I have one that displays the proper temperature from one location, but because we still don't have multiple locations operating in the software, the rest of my cameras all display 999 degrees. I was hesitant to do the work to go in and turn off all of the templates on the other cameras until this was re-added to the software because I thought that the fix was going to be relatively quick but that has not been the case. At the OP it still says "Retrieve & overlay weather from multiple locations" but with 1.6.0 that doesn't work and is greyed out. I was inquiring of a time frame for perhaps 1.6.1 to have that working once again. My cameras are spaced out over several geographic locations and monitor electronic sites and it is very handy to have those overlays include accurate outside weather conditions.
Gotcha! I did miss other, and multiple locations. My bad, with that said I too am unable to use multiple locations and look forward to the fix.
AMP
BIT Beta Team
AMP
BIT Beta Team
9 is the limit only in the UI.
Up to 99 macros are supported by Blue Iris and may be edited using this http command...
/admin?macro=x&text={text} Set macro number x=1-99 to value {text} Note that
{text} must contain only url-acceptable characters.For example, a space must be %20, etc.
Files may also be assigned, e,g.,
&text=file:/C:\Blue%20Iris\My%20Overlays\bit\test.txtUse this command to clear a macro...
/admin?macro=x&text=Macros also may be edited directly in the registry using regedit.exe via key path
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\MacrosMacros defined via regedit.exe may contain space characters.
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AMP
BIT Beta Team
Thanks so much for the tip! Now that I know that, I was able to create as many macros as I needed! I did it directly in the registry.
I put together a Python script that grabs Ohio River conditions data from a website and writes them to text files. I then created a Blue Iris Tools add-on that runs that script every time Blue Iris Tools retrieves the weather. So now I can have all the weather and river conditions info on my IP camera overlay.
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You're welcome.
I do something similar with PHP scripts. Example below.
1) Current sun position info.
2) Multiple weather sources (OWM=openweathermap.org, DSN=darksky.net) & currency.
3) Automated guess of whether sky is sunny, based on #2.
4) Darkness level of image, and compensating backlighting setting.
The mask blocks out a stucco wall that is very bright on sunny days.
(It ended up being a great spot for overlays!)
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BIT Beta Team
Thanks! Just so happens I do: Too hard to use the PTZ to follow flyovers, so that's recorded from my phone.
Here's another one that was better from a Bengal's game in 2015
I have lots of river time lapses, flyovers, river incidents, accidents on the Brent Spence bridge on my YouTube channel Aaron Preslin if you are from or have ties to Cincy Aaron Preslin I usually Tweet them out too Aaron Preslin (@apreslin) | Twitter when I upload them.
This forum messes around with the links you post, so sorry about the weirdness in the way the links are formattted that I posted. Can't seem to stop it from doing that.
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Everytime my PC restarts the webserver watchdog updates the IP address of my server even after I put a static IP on it. Is this a bug?
I don't have auto ip check and it remain uncheck when it comes up, it still grab my nic's IP
I don't have auto ip check and it remain uncheck when it comes up, it still grab my nic's IP
Jan 20, 2020
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Just purchased an Ambient Weather Station. And my dedicated IPC-T5442TM-AS weather cam should arrive by evening or tomorrow. I've read a number of posts about Blue Iris Tools. Is it my understanding that BIT "only" pulls the API from Weather Underground?
Would be cool to have MQTT input/outputs for home automation stuff
Oh. Eventually I am hoping to do this, but it's not in the immediately plans just yet.
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Just purchased an Ambient Weather Station. And my dedicated IPC-T5442TM-AS weather cam should arrive by evening or tomorrow. I've read a number of posts about Blue Iris Tools. Is it my understanding that BIT "only" pulls the API from Weather Underground?
Would be cool to have MQTT input/outputs for home automation stuff
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hm. not sure what's gone on, but I installed this and messed about with the overlays etc for a day or two.
today, I ticked the 'watchdog' option and blue iris immediately dropped out, and the BIT screen kept reporting that BI was "running"....."not running!" every 5 secs or so. Watching the services tab in windows 10 shows the service is indeed running/stopping periodically.
Odd that after having this system up and running for a good few years now, that at the exact point I tick this option that I've never used before in an app I've had for less than 2 days, my BI setup is currently completely inoperative.
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today, I ticked the 'watchdog' option and blue iris immediately dropped out, and the BIT screen kept reporting that BI was "running"....."not running!" every 5 secs or so. Watching the services tab in windows 10 shows the service is indeed running/stopping periodically.
Odd that after having this system up and running for a good few years now, that at the exact point I tick this option that I've never used before in an app I've had for less than 2 days, my BI setup is currently completely inoperative.
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