Blue Iris UI3

Hello, I've been trying to get the UI3 interface to display properly on Blue Iris without any luck.

I'm attaching a screenshot of the display to show what it looks like. The camera videos display just below where the screen capture ends and they are reasonable, it's just everything else that's screwy.

I'm running this on a Win 7x64 machine that also has IIS running for my weather station software. I shut that all down but it didn't fix the problem, and the standard Blue Iris interface works fine. It's definitely my server as my browsers work good connecting to a friends system running BI with ui3.

I took a look at the console and noticed these errors, but I'm to rusty at all this to know where to go from here:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) ui3-local-overrides.css:1
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) ui3-local-overrides.js:1
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) ui3-local-overrides.css:1

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

BI_Ui3.jpg
 
Check the network tab of the developer console to see if ui3.css is loading. There's also a checkbox in the network tab to disable the cache. Try checking that and then, with the developer console still open, reload the page. This will ensure that if your cache got corrupted somehow it will be refreshed.
 
Yes, ui3.css was loading and clearing the cash didn't help, but it gave me a place to start as I observed this message on the console: "resource interpreted as stylesheet but transferred with mime type application/x-css"

I dug around for hours and tried various things until I found a fix that worked for me. In the registry [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.css] "Content Type" was set to "application/x-css" . I changed it to "text", reloaded everything and now it works.
I've been running this server for over 12 years (on 3 different computers) and sometimes don't mess with it until something breaks, so I forget how it all works. And I know just enough to be dangerous!!!

Thanks for your help!
 
Ah, yes, I've told Ken about the dangers of using content types from the Windows Registry but I couldn't convince him to do it differently. At one point there was a problem loading javascript due to the same thing.
 
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@bp2008 I may have asked this previously, but is it possible to have ui3 report the IP Address of each camera, perhaps to administrators only? And would it be wise to have the ip address have "click to load" in a web browser functionality?
 
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@bp2008 I may have asked this previously, but is it possible to have ui3 report the IP Address of each camera, perhaps to administrators only? And would it be wise to have the ip address have "click to load" in a web browser functionality?
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Alas, this isn't possible. BI doesn't report the IP addresses of cameras. If it did I would have put web config links into the camera properties or something :)
 
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Feature Request
I like to put UI3 in the corner of my screen when I am using the computer for other things, and with ctrl ~ , and All Camera's Cycle it works very well indeed. I do perform one additional step though, and that is I use a little utility to keep it Always On Top.

Any chance of having Always On Top in the options?

The one I use is a tiny, one line code utility, found here
Always on Top: Keep Any Window Visible Always
Thanks
 
Albert Einstien said:
Feature Request
I like to put UI3 in the corner of my screen when I am using the computer for other things, and with ctrl ~ , and All Camera's Cycle it works very well indeed. I do perform one additional step though, and that is I use a little utility to keep it Always On Top.

Any chance of having Always On Top in the options?

The one I use is a tiny, one line code utility, found here
Always on Top: Keep Any Window Visible Always
Thanks
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FYI: Make a window stay Always On Top in Windows 10/8/7
 
Question for anyone.....

I am using the UI3 interface on a Raspberry Pi with Chromium to display my camera's onto a QAM TV channel (via an HD encoder modulator). The Hot Keys available within the UI3 allow for great camera and group switching.

My question is how can I get the UI3 web page to receive these Hot Keys from something other than a keyboard connect to the Pi?

I am hoping that there is some way to send some sort of command over the network to Pi (and the UI3) so that I can control which camera are displayed and when.

For what it is worth, also on my LAN is my home automation PC (running PowerHome) and the Blue Iris server that I am displaying on my TV's.
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I am also looking into displaying my cams on the Pi with VLC. VLC has the ability for telnet like control from a remote source (my automation PC), but so far, VLC is is a clunky display solution compared to UI3.

Any ideas appreciated.
 
It will be a challenge to control UI3 via network commands. Your best bet is probably to spoof keyboard and mouse input in response to commands received over the network.

UI3 does not run well on a raspberry pi so you might be better off using a stronger system running Windows anyway. There are programs like AutoHotkey which could handle sending keyboard and mouse input to a Chrome window. But you'd still need a way to remotely run AutoHotkey scripts and I can't advise on that.

As an alternative, UI3 can accept URL parameters when it loads (these are noted in UI3's help file) to load specific cameras or groups. But that requires reloading the UI obviously, so it would be really annoying.
 
It appears there is a bug in the alerts viewer, although I'm not sure if this is a bug in UI3 or in the Blue Iris server. Sometimes when I click on an alert, the viewer indexes to the wrong location in the video. I have my camera doing the time overlay so this is very easy to see that it is wrong. When new alerts come in, it gets fixed but sometimes as the others are fixed, the new ones are broken. Here is a screenshot of the bug. In this screen shot I have clicked on the alert, and then I moused over it so you get the preview. The preview shows the correct location in the video, but the viewer does not.

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Any suggestions?

UI3: 65
Blue Iris: 4.8.4.7
Chrome: 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)
 
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@ToBeFrank UI3 doesn't handle it very well when the clip you are viewing is still being recorded (and is getting longer). This is most often an issue when you have the "Combine or cut video" setting enabled for the camera in Blue Iris. Is it possible this is all that is wrong? Does it only happen for alerts that appear in the most recent clip file?
 
I do have the recordings being cut to 1 hour. Is the only solution to turn that off? I'm new to BI so maybe I don't understand how it all works yet, but wouldn't the latest alert always be in a file that is still being recorded? I'm trying to view an alert right after I've been notified.

I looked at the requests being made by UI3 and, assuming that the "time" parameter in the API is in milliseconds, I can see that the request to the server for the clip is correct. In other words, UI3 is requesting 2248121 for 10:37 where the recording file starts at 10:00 (2248/60 = 37). Wouldn't that mean the problem is in the server?
 
ToBeFrank said:
I do have the recordings being cut to 1 hour. Is the only solution to turn that off? I'm new to BI so maybe I don't understand how it all works yet, but wouldn't the latest alert always be in a file that is still being recorded? I'm trying to view an alert right after I've been notified.
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When you record continuously you don't really have a choice and the latest alerts will usually be part of the active clip. On my main BI system I record only on motion detect without combining, so my clips are almost never still being recorded when I view them.

ToBeFrank said:
I looked at the requests being made by UI3 and, assuming that the "time" parameter in the API is in milliseconds, I can see that the request to the server for the clip is correct. In other words, UI3 is requesting 2248121 for 10:37 where the recording file starts at 10:00 (2248/60 = 37). Wouldn't that mean the problem is in the server?
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I just don't have enough verifiable information about the problem to be sure of anything. I'd need access to a clearly broken system to analyze it myself.
 
@bp2008 Any ideas why the bottom of the cam picture is cut off while viewing in the Blue Iris web interface? Doesn't matter whether I connect to older style web interface or UI3 still the same thing. However when I connect directly to the camera via IE for example and do a "live view" the camera captures the entire picture correctly.
 
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