Using Raspberry Pi B+ / Raspbian to view Blue Iris UI3!

[TL1096r]

Sorry, the Blue Iris app in the Google play store.

Ok thanks. I don't think that is UI3. That is just blue iris app.

 

[rracctv]

Anyone have a quick way to make chromium restart when the pi reboots? For instance when you have a power surge etc??

 

[cagenuts]

Anyone have a quick way to make chromium restart when the pi reboots? For instance when you have a power surge etc??

Step 1.

nano .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

Step 2.

@chromium-browser --start-fullscreen http://192.168.50.20:81/ui3.htm?maximize=1

Obviously change it to suit your BI server address.

 

[cagenuts]

If you don't have something going "live", it's going to blank. That's why you set UI3 auto disable to 0. I have mine going most of the day and most every day. It hasn't blanked on me yet, so....

Yep you're correct. I had to reload a Pi and everything is as you say. Thanks.

 

[TheWaterbug]

You can do this on a Fire tv stick and use the UI3 [BlueIris] android app.
The fire sticks will go on sale for $29 every other month.

How much CPU and GPU does a remote viewing gadget require, and how do the RPi 3B, 3B+, and various Firesticks stack up against those requirements?

Is the Android app less resource-intensive than a browser-based solution since it doesn't have to implement a full browser? Or is all the horsepower required for the decoding and rendering anyway?

I have a 3B+ at my parents' house doing other duties, and they want me to set up a security camera system with ~6-10 cameras, depending on how ambitious we get.

 

[Mike A.]

Not sure about the Pi but I've run UI3 fine on some crappy old tablets with not much as far as processor/memory so can't take much.

 

[bp2008]

UI3 on a pi 3 or 4 should be fine if you limit the streaming resolution to 1080p or 720p. If I was going to run such a thing, I would probably increase the bit rate of whichever streaming profile I settled on (and not use a "VBR" profile unless it was on wifi), so the quality would be as high as possible for the pi hardware.

A Fire TV stick probably will have more advanced video decoding hardware and be capable of 1080p or higher. Just my assumption. I don't use Fire TV sticks.

In theory the official Android app could be more efficient than UI3, so if that suits your needs then by all means give it a try.

 

[TheWaterbug]

64-bit Raspian/Raspberry Pi OS is out of beta:

64-bit Raspberry Pi OS exits beta, is available for all Pi 3, 4, and Zero 2 boards

"Many closed-source applications are only available for arm64."

arstechnica.com

I don't know if this has any practical benefits for running UI3, but I'll get to try it out when my Pi arrives this month!

 

[digger11]

My Livingroom BlueIris display is a 24" HP Z24i monitor I had laying around, wall-mounted on a low profile wall mount, with a 2nd Gen Fire TV stick plugged in via an HDMI-DVI adapter (since the monitor doesn't have HDMI inputs). I run UI3 in the Silk browser. I am extremely pleased with the result.