I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]
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djangel
Pulling my weight
- Aug 30, 2014
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Nice update, in particular the new "unsafe" PTZ option. I'm actually able to control the camera now without relying solely on presets. Awesome!
I know this is a long shot... But with multiple servers running, can you (bp2000) create a way to see specific cameras from different servers simultaneously in one spot/page?
You could try something like this with iframes, but Blue Iris has apparently within the last few months added a web server response header "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN" which prevents a Blue Iris web interface from being loaded into a frame hosted by another web server (there is a legitimate reason for this -- to prevent cross site request forgery). So it would only work with older Blue Iris installs that don't have this header.
Anyway if you want to try, dump this into a new .htm or .html file.
HTML:
<html>
<head>
<title>Blue Iris</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
margin: 0px;
}
table
{
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
td
{
padding: 0px;
}
iframe
{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
border: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="width: 50%; height: 50%;"><iframe src="ui2.htm"></iframe></td>
<td style="width: 50%; height: 50%;"><iframe src="http://othersite1/ui2.htm"></iframe></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 50%; height: 50%;"><iframe src="http://othersite2/ui2.htm"></iframe></td>
<td style="width: 50%; height: 50%;"><iframe src="http://othersite3/ui2.htm"></iframe></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>Note it is not impossible to work around this limitation. You could set up a proxy server to connect to all the Blue Iris instances so that as far as your browser was concerned every iframe would be loading content from the same origin.
And if that doesn't work (or in my case, is too complicated to even try), you can always add the desired cameras from one BI server to another. I have three BI servers that I monitor. To each, I add a camera that shows the index view of the other servers' cameras.
Simply add a new camera, and use the settings in the attachment below. You can use a specific camera's short name, or you can specify a group name. Note that a "group" must have at least two cameras in it.
Add "?stream=X" to specify the specific stream (bit rate) you want to pull from the other server.
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Tell me more about this setup... Could be onto something here. And we don't want to miss out on all of Ken's latest features and additions - so we don't want to use an older version.
Thanks man, love the delete function, just what I've been needing. Would be nice to have the new zones listed in the description that the alert was posted because of, like you get in the main BI software. e.g. Showing that zone A>B was triggered etc.
Believe it or not, I have never set up a proxy server using free software before, so I don't even know what software to recommend. You would be on your own for that. If you are confident that you can do it, then it is probably not worth the hassle. My next update for UI2 will likely include the (experimental) ability to have UI2 connect to other Blue Iris servers (so you can use ui2 with a server that does not actually have ui2 installed on it!). UI2 would behave a lot like a mobile app, where you only have to install it once and then it can connect to any Blue Iris server. Preliminary results suggest that this will work beautifully; the "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN" header does not interfere. And once it is done you would be able to do the multiple-iframes-on-one-page thing even with the newest Blue Iris.
I just looked, and that information is not included in the alert list sent by Blue Iris. Let me know if you see it pop up in the Android or iOS apps, and I'll reconsider then.
Possible, certainly. I would probably add a second calendar button for date ranges. Since selecting a date range can be twice as much work, I wouldn't want to force everyone to select a range when all they need is one day.
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I misunderstood what @djangel was asking... but now I'm curious myself. Is there a way you can add a "time" option - meaning looking up clips at a certain hour/min? That way if I wanted to tell someone to go look at 2/25 at 10:15am - it's much easier to find the clip?
Ranges are great too though
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I misunderstood what @djangel was asking... but now I'm curious myself. Is there a way you can add a "time" option - meaning looking up clips at a certain hour/min? That way if I wanted to tell someone to go look at 2/25 at 10:15am - it's much easier to find the clip?
Ranges are great too though
This could be added, but I do not intend to. That is what scrolling is for
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Here is a little teaser of what I have planned for the next update.
Unfortunately, this screenshot is mostly sensitive information!
Unfortunately, this screenshot is mostly sensitive information!
Biggest update yet.
v0.12.0 - 2016-03-01
+ Clips/alerts can now be filtered by a range of dates, not just one day. If the date range has more than 1000 clips/alerts, a loading progress indicator will appear.
+ UI2 can now be used as a client for external Blue Iris servers, even if they do not have UI2 installed on them. See the options, "Servers" section.
+ The clip list now scales larger and smaller to match the width of the left menu.
+ Mousing over a clip or alert now causes a looping 8-frame preview of the clip to be shown in the thumbnail.
* Fixed a bug where PTZ commands could be sent by hotkey when no PTZ camera was active.
* Filtering clips/alerts by date no longer changes your camera filter.
* Deleting a clip no longer changes your camera filter.
* Calendars for clip filtering now have their buttons aligned better.
* Fixed a bug where the first image to load in UI2 would be scaled wrong while it was loading, if that image was not 16:9 aspect ratio.
- Eliminated the message "A clip list is already loading".
The download link is the same as always, in the first post of this thread.
v0.12.0 - 2016-03-01
+ Clips/alerts can now be filtered by a range of dates, not just one day. If the date range has more than 1000 clips/alerts, a loading progress indicator will appear.
+ UI2 can now be used as a client for external Blue Iris servers, even if they do not have UI2 installed on them. See the options, "Servers" section.
+ The clip list now scales larger and smaller to match the width of the left menu.
+ Mousing over a clip or alert now causes a looping 8-frame preview of the clip to be shown in the thumbnail.
* Fixed a bug where PTZ commands could be sent by hotkey when no PTZ camera was active.
* Filtering clips/alerts by date no longer changes your camera filter.
* Deleting a clip no longer changes your camera filter.
* Calendars for clip filtering now have their buttons aligned better.
* Fixed a bug where the first image to load in UI2 would be scaled wrong while it was loading, if that image was not 16:9 aspect ratio.
- Eliminated the message "A clip list is already loading".
The download link is the same as always, in the first post of this thread.
Just a thought - (This is absolutely amazing btw) - do you think you could make the server's name in the upper left bring a dropdown list of servers we've setup in preferences? Right now it brings up the about section - perhaps that could be moved to a new button or something? That way it would be a quick built in method to switch between servers instead of going back to the settings area each time to click on the servers... (Or is there an easier way to switch servers?)
Also - on the about page - can you please include your paypal link for donations? 
It's not greedy - it's just smart. And WELL deserved.
It's not greedy - it's just smart. And WELL deserved.
One way you could make it easy to switch servers is to bookmark the /ui2.htm?serverlist=1 link found in the comments of the server list. That serverlist=1 parameter makes the server list open automatically.
But I like your idea of the dropdown menu from the server name button. I will do that, and just make the first item in the dropdown list be "About UI2". What do you think?