Blue Iris Update Helper (BiUpdateHelper)
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looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
So, it's best to not depend on the current version for Reg backups in V5, I assume.
Registry backups are still 100% fine, and done far better than Blue Iris's own registry backups in my opinion. Those .reg files are huuuge due to Blue Iris's extremely inefficient encoding of motion zones. My tool compresses 30+ MB reg files down to a couple KB using 7zip.
When you do an update is their a way that it would be possible to identify a camera in the detailed performance data? I would imagine, like myself, that a lot of us have multiples the same types of cameras so that when looking at the camera data it's hard to identify the settings of an individual camera.
SouthernYankee
IPCT Contributor
BP2008
on the stat page for the CPU usage, can you add the windows version, BI version and the GPU utilization . I like the stats it is a good indicator of what CPU to use, also how well a configuration is compared to others.
I would really like it if it was automatically installed with BI so there was more data points. Maybe with an OPT OUT.
Blue Iris Update Helper
on the stat page for the CPU usage, can you add the windows version, BI version and the GPU utilization . I like the stats it is a good indicator of what CPU to use, also how well a configuration is compared to others.
I would really like it if it was automatically installed with BI so there was more data points. Maybe with an OPT OUT.
Blue Iris Update Helper
BIUpdateHelper failed to run in Windows Server 2008R2 VM in ESXi 6.7.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: biupdatehelper.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.6.4.2
Problem Signature 03: 5d01913b
Problem Signature 04: System
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4ba1dff4
Problem Signature 07: 1d21
Problem Signature 08: 18
Problem Signature 09: System.NotSupportedException
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.272.7
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0bff
Additional Information 2: 0bff8d176610735333c3986b545525d3
Additional Information 3: 8480
Additional Information 4: 8480f19033299c20ce71a55690ac078b
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Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: biupdatehelper.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.6.4.2
Problem Signature 03: 5d01913b
Problem Signature 04: System
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4ba1dff4
Problem Signature 07: 1d21
Problem Signature 08: 18
Problem Signature 09: System.NotSupportedException
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.272.7
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0bff
Additional Information 2: 0bff8d176610735333c3986b545525d3
Additional Information 3: 8480
Additional Information 4: 8480f19033299c20ce71a55690ac078b
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heh heh I guess I was a little late replying to some of these!!
It would definitely be possible to glean information from camera short names, as with anything the user typed themselves. So I wouldn't include that.
Windows version and BI version are there if you click a row to see the full record. GPU utilization, that is harder to measure, so I'm not sure. There's more than one relevant part of the GPU to measure too, which is half the trouble. Not everything is likely to be available to measure on all systems with different GPUs and drivers and Windows versions.
I'm too lazy to even update the data collection to read the direct-to-disc flag from the correct profile, so you'll notice for everyone running BI5, it doesn't know if they have direct to disc on or not
Heh, that would be neat if BI did its own data collection. It could know so many more things, like which cameras are clones of each other, what video codec they use, how many actual frames get decoded per second (limit decoding royally screws with this!) whether hardware acceleration is working or not...
That OS is old enough it might not come with .NET framework 4.5. Make sure that is installed.
It would definitely be possible to glean information from camera short names, as with anything the user typed themselves. So I wouldn't include that.
Windows version and BI version are there if you click a row to see the full record. GPU utilization, that is harder to measure, so I'm not sure. There's more than one relevant part of the GPU to measure too, which is half the trouble. Not everything is likely to be available to measure on all systems with different GPUs and drivers and Windows versions.
I'm too lazy to even update the data collection to read the direct-to-disc flag from the correct profile, so you'll notice for everyone running BI5, it doesn't know if they have direct to disc on or not
Heh, that would be neat if BI did its own data collection. It could know so many more things, like which cameras are clones of each other, what video codec they use, how many actual frames get decoded per second (limit decoding royally screws with this!) whether hardware acceleration is working or not...
That OS is old enough it might not come with .NET framework 4.5. Make sure that is installed.
looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
@bp2008
So I just discovered that helper hasn't been helping.
It's not saving a copy of the update files, nor is it performing a registry backup at update time.
The generating of links to cameras also fail.
I tried uninstalling, and reinstall, but no luck.
I've not changed anything other than BI updates, and maybe a windows update in there some place.
See the attachment.
Thanks.
So I just discovered that helper hasn't been helping.
It's not saving a copy of the update files, nor is it performing a registry backup at update time.
The generating of links to cameras also fail.
I tried uninstalling, and reinstall, but no luck.
I've not changed anything other than BI updates, and maybe a windows update in there some place.
See the attachment.
Thanks.
@looney2ns
Geez, that looks bad. Lots of distinct problems.
I am thinking Blue Iris may have recently changed how it installs updates.
And it looks like BiUpdateHelper's web site might be having trouble.
And your Blue Iris is for some reason rejecting a lot of the login attempts from the helper (it tries to learn camera frame rates via the web server). Very strange, considering the helper literally looks in Blue Iris's user list to choose a user to log in as.
Geez, that looks bad. Lots of distinct problems.
I am thinking Blue Iris may have recently changed how it installs updates.
And it looks like BiUpdateHelper's web site might be having trouble.
And your Blue Iris is for some reason rejecting a lot of the login attempts from the helper (it tries to learn camera frame rates via the web server). Very strange, considering the helper literally looks in Blue Iris's user list to choose a user to log in as.
Not an expert, but I think this may be related to the BIT backup function as well. Ken changed the default location of the update.exe file. It used to be in the program files/blue iris, but now it's saved under programdata/blue iris/temp.
It would be nice if the program provided the option to specify the source path.
It would be nice if the program provided the option to specify the source path.
The website is all fixed. I'll try to get BiUpdateHelper 1.7 ready before or during this weekend.
In the meantime if anyone needs to revert to an older BI release, IPCamTalk keeps an archive now. Blue Iris Software Updates
In the meantime if anyone needs to revert to an older BI release, IPCamTalk keeps an archive now. Blue Iris Software Updates
@erkme73 @Tinbum @looney2ns
BiUpdateHelper 1.7 is out now and should solve all the issues I was aware of, and then some.
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BiUpdateHelper 1.7 is out now and should solve all the issues I was aware of, and then some.
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A Windows service which helps manage Blue Iris updates - bp2008/biupdatehelper
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