Pushover Alert with Higher Resolution .jpg

[Inigo]

&ALERT_PATH is working well to send the Alert image from the low resolution stream (

https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json

-s --form-string "token=%996" --form-string "user=%997" --form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b>" --form-string "html=1" -F "attachment=@C:\Users\Security\BI Alerts\&ALERT_PATH" ), but I would like to send the higher resolution JPEG recorded when triggered:

(They are less than 250 kb, so it isn't a Pushover limitation.)
I have tried &IMAGE_PATH in the "New" file path, but no results. Any ideas? (The manual just says "&IMAGE_PATH - A temporary path to the most recent image from the camera"
(Blue Iris Release 5.9.9.33 x64)
Thanks,
Inigo Montoya

 

[jaydeel]

Macro &IMAGE_PATH resolves to a JPG file in the Blue Iris 'temp' folder.

something like
C:\ProgramData\Blue Iris\temp\DW1_image.jpg

These images are 'live' from the camera at the moment the macro is used, and therefore are not ideal for 'On alert' action set notifications.

Click here for details.

 

[jaydeel]

Hi-res alert JPGs are created in the Alerts folder by either adding them to the alerts list

or by burning AI mark-up onto alert images

 

[Inigo]

Hi Jaydeel - thanks again - Hi-res JPEG files should do the trick!
Cheers

 

[Inigo]

Hmm, it looks like selecting

just results in Blue Iris saving a JPEG off of the Low Resolution Stream :-(

The only high resolution .jpg is still the one from the Record tab

So, still looking for a method to include the high resolution .jpg in the Pushover notification.

 

[Inigo]

I found a solution; cloned the cameras and selected only the Main stream on the Video tab > Configure. If someone has a more elegant solution, please let me know.

 

[Inigo]

Cloning has not worked as well as I hoped and there are a couple problems with the approach:

• AI confirmation processing done on both streams
• For each IVS notification, I am only getting an alert from either the main or the clone, and it appears to be alternating. While the main and clone are theoretically independent, this may be due to the 30 second delay between Alerts that I have set. (Blue Onyx isn't throwing any errors.)

Any ideas how to get Alert JPEG images off of the Main (high resolution) stream other than cloning the camera or having the main cameras subscribe only to the Main stream?
(I am using &Alert_Path to grab the image for the curl command, and love the fast Pushover notifications and no need to VPN back in.)

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Following as I did not find a solution to this, other than bumping up the sub stream resolution

 

[jaydeel]

While checking if I could reproduce this issue, I noticed that several of my cameras (Dahua 5442T-ZE) had an unexpected Size value in the Camera Settings > Video tab. The screenshot below shows the setting as 848x480!

When I check the size of full-res JPGs in the Alerts folder, they have these same dimensions.

This is not the main-stream dimensions being delivered to Blue Iris. The camera in question is configured for dual-stream operation. The camera's browser interface shows the main stream size as 2688x1520, and sub stream as 704x480.

Note that the aspect ratios of the main- and sub-stream do not match (2688/1520=1.77, 704/480=1.46).

The help PDF explains the apparent discrepancy as follows:

How Blue Iris settled on the dimensions 848x480 is not apparent to me!

 

[jaydeel]

I've received two interesting responses from Blue Iris support and Ken...

SUPPORT... As far as the jpgs not being the size of the main stream, Ken has planned to adjust the wording, really it should be "full JPEG image". "Hi-res" is relative term, as it's the sub stream that is decoded and used for motion and triggering.​

​

KEN... The sub stream resolution is always shown in that box [Camera Settings > Video tab > Image format > Size. see screenshot below].The software sees the aspect [ratio] of 704x480 is wrong, so automatically uses the anamorphic setting to correct it to 848x480 so the sub stream appears in the same aspect [ratio] as the main stream.​

​

The highlighted text is mine.

For my camera, the main- & sub-stream resolutions and aspect ratios are 2688x1520 (1.768) and 704x480 (1.467). So, because the aspect ratios do not match, Blue Iris calculates the adjusted width of the 'full JPG image' as
W = mainstream_W/H*substream_H = floor((2688/1520)*480) = 848
yielding a Size (WxH) of 848x480.

For my camera, this is the size of the JPG saved by either of the following settings:



(btw, note the change of the drop down list entry from 'Full-res JPEG files' to 'Full-size JPEGs (sub stream)' - this is new from my recollection! - I'm using 5.9.9.37)

However, I've verified that you can always force a full-resolution JPG to be saved by using these settings in AI configuration dialog, e.g., 2688x1520.

This is not optimum for AI processing, but it may be a possible solution of you are prioritizing the creation of a full-resolution JPG.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Thanks for the detailed follow-up!

 

[jaydeel]

It appears that Ken has once again changed the phrasing of the save alert JPG option (currently located at Camera settings > Alert tab > 'Add to alerts list' dropdown box)...

The evolution seems to be

1. 'Store alert images as hi-res files' ... <5.3.8, Trigger tab checkbox ... described as "full-resolution JPEG files" in the Help PDF
2. 'Hi-Res JPEGs' ... >=5.3.8, Trigger tab 'Add to alerts list' dropdown
3. 'Hi-Res JPEGs' ... >=5.8.0, Alert tab 'Add to alerts list' dropdown (migrated from the Trigger tab)
4. 'Full-size JPEGs (substream)' ... 5.9.9.37, Alert tab dropdown
5. 'JPG (size/quality on Record tab)' ... 5.9.9.43, Alert tab drowdown

Attached are the previous (5.9.9.37) and current (5.9.9.43) screenshots.
The left screenshot is from post #10 above.



I haven't yet have just experimented to see if the Record tab settings now controls the Alert JPG size, even if you have NOT enabled 'JPEGs' on the Record tab. It appears that YES they do. But only if you have NOT checked 'Burn mark up onto alert files' (Alert tab > AI Configure dialog).