The what server?? That URL just tells you your public IP address!Is there a way to embed UI3 into the blueiris.pro/go server?
Oh, LOL, okay. I thought it was some sort of hand off, since the url ends with a portion your product key. I hadn't looked into it further than just pulling the URL up and seeing it work.. I had thought it was a server that found your machine no matter the global IP. The URL is actually blueiris.pro/go?XXXXXXXXXX , replacing the X's with the first and last 5 digits of the product keyThe what server?? That URL just tells you your public IP address!
Okay so when you open it, then click WAN access, it opens what looks to be a basic live JPEG pull... at least on my phone. I was wondering if there was some way to make it load UI3 instead. I am still an infant in regards to the ins and outs of BIThat does find your home's public IP; it was implemented as an alternative to using a dynamic DNS service.
Just change the "jpegpull.htm" part of the url to "ui3beta/ui3.htm"Okay so when you open it, then click WAN access, it opens what looks to be a basic live JPEG pull... at least on my phone. I was wondering if there was some way to make it load UI3 instead. I am still an infant in regards to the ins and outs of BI
Go to Blue Iris Options > Web server tab > Advanced > select an encoder profile and click Configure. This brings up a panel of encoder options which controls the encoding of the H.264 streams which are available to UI3.When using an H.264 stream (necessary for audio), I'm getting a blur/pixelation every 10 seconds on some of my cameras. It appears to be happening on all of the Reolink cameras, with and without audio. May be an issue with higher MP cameras - will see if I can isolate more when I have time. This happens on both of my BI servers - 1 local, 1 remote.
Great - thank you very much! I'll look through those settings when I get some time.Go to Blue Iris Options > Web server tab > Advanced > select an encoder profile and click Configure. This brings up a panel of encoder options which controls the encoding of the H.264 streams which are available to UI3.
The temporary low quality is due to the stream receiving an iframe. In the encoding settings (in Blue Iris) the setting called "Maximum keyframe interval (GOP)" controls this. By default it is every 300 frames, and that happens to also be the maximum. You definitely want it set to 300 here because there is no benefit to a lower iframe interval with the way Blue Iris does its streaming to the web clients.
Now, you can improve the video quality and make the iframes less noticeable by increasing Quality and Max bitrate settings. If you increase the Quality, you need to also check the box for Limit bitrate because otherwise Blue Iris can end up encoding an insanely high bit rate that the mobile apps and web client can't handle. I personally set my Quality to 90 and set Max bitrate to 256 or 512 or 1024 or 2048 or 4096 or whatever I want. Higher bit rate is higher quality, but higher bandwidth usage.
512 Kbps = 0.5 Mbps
1024 Kbps = 1 Mbps
2048 Kbps = 2 Mbps
4096 Kbps = 4 Mbps
Another setting which significantly affects video quality is the Preset dropdown list. The value ultrafast is the fastest to encode and decode (less CPU usage) but it doesn't include a deblocking filter so you end up with an especially pixelated look. superfast is like the medium setting, and that is what I prefer to use. veryfast is the slowest setting, and comes with a much less significant improvement to video quality, so I do not use veryfast.
The Zero frame latency setting is fine. I don't really see a difference either way so I'm not sure this setting actually does anything.
Resize output frame width x height currently does not work, but when it eventually gets fixed this will be an important way to improve quality for fast systems or reduce CPU requirements for slow systems.
The Maximum B-frames between P-frames setting I keep at 0 because I don't think the web UI would handle B frames very well if they were to be sent. Though I did play with this setting and never noticed a difference.
I used to think the same way, because I really like having all the controls on the screen at once, as is UI2's style. But I just don't have the time to keep UI2 technologically up-to-date and UI3 has since surpassed UI2 in several important ways!Edit: Forgot to mention. I like UI2 better, personally.
I take it back. This is nice. I didn't like the PTZ area in the left bar personally, because I don't use PTZ, so that was bothering me "wasting" screen realestate. I also didn't like that I couldn't disable some of the controls, the way I did in UI2, to prevent the wife from messing with profiles etc.I used to think the same way, because I really like having all the controls on the screen at once, as is UI2's style. But I just don't have the time to keep UI2 technologically up-to-date and UI3 has since surpassed UI2 in several important ways!
Local Overrides Scripts and Styles · bp2008/ui3 Wiki · GitHubI take it back. This is nice. I didn't like the PTZ area in the left bar personally, because I don't use PTZ, so that was bothering me "wasting" screen realestate. I also didn't like that I couldn't disable some of the controls, the way I did in UI2, to prevent the wife from messing with profiles etc.
At a glance, it looks like I can remedy these (or anything else) using the local overrides script. <- THIS, if it's what it looks like at a glance, is very nice.
I also didn't see the video quality setting at first, and didn't like that the video quality on my local network wasn't as good as the default in UI2.
You need to select an H.264 option in the streaming quality list! Firefox already has your preference set to jpeg mode.Switched from chrome to Firefox 57; did the mods here: Firefox version 57 is fully compatible if you turn on the dom.streams.enabled and javascript.options.streams settings in about:config,
I'm still seeing firefox load jpegs and show poor FPS compared to chrome...
(In stats for nerds on firefox it shows jpeg loading time, whereas in chrome its show h264 and more info...)
I'm running latest BI3 beta; Latest BI4. Firefox 57.0.4 on win10 with 32GB ram and a fast processor..
tks
-jim