Is there an easy way to dump all the Blue Iris camera(s) settings to a file for easy review?

[bradner]

Now that I'm cloning cams and "linking" other cams motion detecting to other cams, I was poking around to see if there's a quick way to list all the settings for each cam to quickly check for any wasted resources (ie - not turning off hardware accelerated decoding on a clone...). Right now I go through each cam's settings individually but can get time consuming with 20+ cams, not to mention easy to get confused when interrupted or making many changes. Thanks.

edit: I tried reading the exported Reg file in notepad but wasn't a readable format

 

[WSCam]

You can run regedit and export the reg entry for each camera to a separate file and then compare those. I've done that before when troubleshooting why a camera didn't work, but if I created a new one to the same cam, it would work. Comparing the reg entries let me see that somehow the old camera had inherited a funny default value that caused issues that a new setup didn't have.

Problem there is that when you export the registry, the values may not be alphabetical. To get around that I just sorted them alphabetically (using the TextFX plugin to Notepad++) before comparing. For comparing, I use Beyond Compare. Not free though, but you could use something like Winmerge.

The cameras will be in subkeys like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Cameras\Front Door

There are a lot of subkeys, so before sorting/comparing, you probably want to snip out the other subkeys and focus just on the main one, or whatever.

 

[bp2008]

I've been slowly (oh so slowly) building an app that would do this. The main function is to give advice on how to improve your confguration. A secondary function is to export a human-readable summary of the configuration that could be shared on a forum.

 

[th182]

I've been slowly (oh so slowly) building an app that would do this. The main function is to give advice on how to improve your confguration. A secondary function is to export a human-readable summary of the configuration that could be shared on a forum.

You are always thinking! I like it!! So you'll have the dully functional version released in a few days right?! Haha!

I'd like a table view like the page in BI that shows all the camera bitrates, just with various settings listed for comparison. That way I can quick glance and see if a camera is different/forgotten.


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[WSCam]

You could always do a series of command line queries for each camera and grab the "interval" value if all you want to see is the bitrate.
Example: reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Cameras\Backyard" /v interval

Just replace that "Backyard" in my example with each camera's full name (not the short name).

The value returned is hex, so for example a bit rate of 303031 (33 fps) would be 0x49fb7. 20 FPS would be 500000 decimal, or 0x7a120 hex.

For what it's worth, I can tell that the stored "interval" value related to FPS only in the sense that it's 10,000,000 / FPS but I don't know why and haven't spent any brain cycles figuring out why. So, the larger that interval value, the lower the frame rate in FPS.

 

[th182]

I'm visualizing something similar to the Camera tab with added columns for record mode (continuous, triggered, etc), record folder, video format info, basically info from the Record tab so I can quickly see a summary of all my settings for each camera and spot any inconsistencies. Probably what Mike is working on for the "Ability to render a configuration summary that can be copied into support forums." I'm up to 20 cameras now so going through them one-by-one was time consuming when I had issues after the upgrade to BI5.