Combine Camera Feeds?

[merkaba]

Hello,

I am wondering if there is a way to take two or more different cameras feeds (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) and combine them to make a single camera feed in Blue Iris? I have 3 areas of my home that are covered by cameras, and I'm trying to figure out how to make a view that shows those 3 areas as a single feed instead of having 10+ cameras just showing their own. Sort of like making my own version of a DH-IPC-PFW8601N-H-A180 type camera.

 

[Mikk36]

Groups, on the web you get a single stream when viewing a group.
Or is your wish to store it as a single stream? If so, then why?

 

[TonyR]

You can view a group of cams in UI3 as follows:

Assign the desired cams to a specific group. In my example, I attached them to "group1".
Insure that webcasting is enabled for that group.

Open your browser to:

http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/ui3.htm?group=groupname

Substitute the name of YOUR newly created group in place of the above "groupname".

Example:

http://192.168.1.239:81/ui3.htm?group=group1
or
http://BI-Server-DDNS-Hostname:81/ui3.htm?group=group1

Once logged into UI3 and viewing the group, press <Control> plus tilde (~) at the same time to view the group in full-screen mode with no clip thumbnails, no controls, etc....just the group.

Press <Control> plus tilde (~) again to show, clips, controls, etc.

==OR=

Create the group as above but instead of using UI3, you can stream MJPG from Blue Iris using this URL in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox:

http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/mjpg/group1/video.mjpg

 

[merkaba]

You can view a group of cams in UI3 as follows:

Assign the desired cams to a specific group. In my example, I attached them to "group1".
Insure that webcasting is enabled for that group.

Open your browser to:

http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/ui3.htm?group=groupname

Substitute the name of YOUR newly created group in place of the above "groupname".

Example:

http://192.168.1.239:81/ui3.htm?group=group1
or
http://BI-Server-DDNS-Hostname:81/ui3.htm?group=group1

Once logged into UI3 and viewing the group, press <Control> plus tilde (~) at the same time to view the group in full-screen mode with no clip thumbnails, no controls, etc....just the group.

Press <Control> plus tilde (~) again to show, clips, controls, etc.

==OR=

Create the group as above but instead of using UI3, you can stream MJPG from Blue Iris using this URL in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox:

http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/mjpg/group1/video.mjpg

Thanks a lot for the detail. I appreciate it. I have one more question...

Is there a way to view multiple groups in a single view?

 

[merkaba]

Groups, on the web you get a single stream when viewing a group.
Or is your wish to store it as a single stream? If so, then why?

I'm not looking fo them to be in a single stream, just trying to figure out if i can setup a view with multiple groups in it instead of all individual single streams. I'm assuming I can't.

 

[TonyR]

I'm not looking fo them to be in a single stream, just trying to figure out if i can setup a view with multiple groups in it instead of all individual single streams. I'm assuming I can't.

Yes, you can.
See the first half of my post #3 above (unless I have totally misunderstood what you're asking).

 

[Edcfish]

A camera can be in as many groups as you would need.
For example, I may have a birdfeeder group that has 3 cameras; 1)hummingbird feeder 2)suet feeder & 3)seed feeder. I also may have a backyard group that has 4 cameras; 1)seed feeder 2)yard left 3)yard right & 4)back side. I also may have a play area group that has 9 cameras; 1)yard left 2)yard right 3)back side 4)front lawn 5)driveway east 6)driveway west 7)garage workbench 8)garage door & 9)game room. Then I also may have an Outside group that has every camera that is outside of the house and an Inside group that has every camera inside the house. and so on.

 

[merkaba]

Ah, yea. I'm an idiot. I didn't realize that the cameras could be in multiple groups. I was looking to combine my "Driveway" group and my "Front Yard" group into a single view. I think this now solves my problem. Thank you.

 

[TonyR]

@merkaba ,

I had to run 45 miles each way to adjacent town to take elderly person to doctor, just got back but wanted to share a screenshot of the UI3, a stream of a group made up of 2 cams, at full screen (CNTRL ~) :

 

[bp2008]

You can also load an mjpeg or H.264 stream from Blue Iris's own web server as its own camera. It is super inefficient but it is nonetheless a way to combine multiple cameras into one for recording purposes.

 

[TonyR]

You can also load an mjpeg or H.264 stream from Blue Iris's own web server as its own camera. It is super inefficient but it is nonetheless a way to combine multiple cameras into one for recording purposes.

Would that be like I suggested in the last part of my post #3 where you stream a pre-defined group from the BI server BUT you're saying bring it back into BI as a camera?

EDIT: Yep, I just did it as you said...cool!

 

[JNDATHP]

Is there a way to arrange the camera feeds in a particular order so the single stream, say, shows the outside in a sequential order?

Edit->

Answered my question. Sort of. I was having a problem in that one camera wouldn’t show in UI3 unless I put in between 2 larger framed cameras. The camera in question is flipped 90 degrees to get a narrower FOV. If this camera was at either extreme left or right, it wouldn’t show in UI3.

By adding all cameras to a group I was able to rearrange this camera in BI and now it shows in UI3.

Camera in question:




Other cameras as an example: