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Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 9 3.10.12 - October 10, 2012 • This version is primarily a security release focusing on two a

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 99 There are presently no Preset FTP server addresses, so you must choose User defined and

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 100 In addition to tracking mobile device client connections, this page will allow you to &qu

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 101 Arduino The Arduino UNO is an open-source project board, available very inexpensively at

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 102 By default, every minute of every day will use profile 1 (green). Use the controls on th

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 103 Time markers The bubble icons at the top of the schedule represent times at which the prof

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 104 This value represents the number of minutes for which a temporary profile selection will r

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 105 Network IP camera PTZ capability and Blue Iris support of these capabilities vary widely.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 106 • Login to the router. If you don't know the password, consult the router's ma

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 107 to Tools, Internet Options, Security, and click on "Custom level...". Make sure

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 108 • Can you switch to the H.264 codec? This is your most efficient choice, and also create

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 10 Aero (Windows desktop display technology), virtual machines, multiple monitors, and remote

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 109 need to exclude Blue Iris from a list of 'web browsers' by locating the blueiris

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 110 My analog cameras show only black & white and/or are distorted This may be the result

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 111 How do I backup and/or restore all settings or move them to a new PC? You can use the new

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 112 The JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) interface exists to provide methods for remote admin

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 113 flags: the following flags are defined: 1: the offset is in time (milliseconds) 2: the ale

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 114 camlist Returns a list of cameras on the system ordered by group. Cameras not belonging t

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 115 audio: is audio supported, true or false width: width of the standard video frame height:

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 116 obj: object name msg: the text of the log entry login Blue Iris will respond with a "

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 117 0: Pan left 1: Pan right 2: Tilt up 3: Tilt down 4: Center or home (if supported by camera

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 118 msec: the number of milliseconds to hold the output enabled if force is not specified. pla

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 11 • Compiled with a newer version of the AAC audio encoder for MPEG4 files as well as an upd

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 119 15. Addenda 15.1 Time Formatting Blue Iris uses the following set of codes when formatting

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 120 Month as decimal number (01 – 12) %M Minute as decimal number (00 – 59) %p Current loc

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 121 %% Percent sign You may place a # character immediately following the % to eliminate lead

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 122 point and after the stop point; you may choose to replace the current video or create a ne

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 123 • The "phone alert" now supports modems without automated voice capability. •

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 124 1.54 • IP cameras that stream ASF format video (Windows Media format) are now supported.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 125 is enabled, the most recent image is first renamed into the ring before the next image is

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 126 • Re-licensing is required to update to this version. Special pricing is available for r

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 127 • The "screen capture" code has been revised to be smoother and more efficient.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 128 1.33 • For Motion Detection (See 7.3), the definition of "make time" has change

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 12 • A new Joystick options page (See 11.) has been added to allow the use of a DirectInput c

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 129 • SMTP-AUTH support for authenticated email alerts. The LOGIN and PLAIN methods are curr

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 130 • Windows XP visual style now used for all common controls. You'll only notice a ch

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 131 • New status bar (See 5.) icon to indicate active webcam connections--this takes the &quo

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 132 • Webcasting (See 7.6) "server push" model allows a client to decode a continuo

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 133 • The Options page also has a new button to export or backup your entire Blue Iris config

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 134 the Options/Web server (See 8.) page, you may now configure these streams independently.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 135 utilization for extended periods). If you have seen Blue Iris inexplicably use high syste

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 136 • A new recording option (See 7.4) to record continuously, but cut (create a new movie fi

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 137 • If the console process crashes while Blue Iris is running as a service, you may now re-

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 138 • The H.264 codec is not found on the majority of Windows systems. So, if you attempt to

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 13 only a specific wired or wireless connection for example. Note that if your local IP addre

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 139 when the meter reaches 100%, and not just when it crosses the position of the sensitivity

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 140 from the camera, which may not be desirable if either CPU cycles or video display capabili

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 141 • The JAVA/JPEG remote page requires that you install JAVA from http://java.com. JAVA ve

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 142 • The ActiveX control has been updated to version 1,0,0,29 which allows a larger XVID fra

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 143 • The XVID DLLs have been updated to version 1.2.2 with additional memory safety features

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 144 • BVR playback speed now more accurately reflects the position of the playback speed cont

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 145 • A new DDE command, "global" with item "signal" ... send "0&quo

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 146 • Selecting "Close application" from the System Tray's popup menu will now

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 147 • The de-interlacing feature now allows you to choose a new setting, "stretch top ha

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 148 • The Push to Windows Media Server feature now checks for writing status errors once each

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 14 • Fix for the broken MP4 email alert and a return to the less-CPU-intensive H.264 encoder

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 149 upon system performance. Once this warning is posted, Blue Iris will impose "wait st

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 150 jamiepyoung. Previously, if Blue Iris detected an iPhone, he was taken to "jpegpull.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 151 • The ActiveX control has been updated to version 1,0,0,21. Its digital signature has be

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 152 • The camera Record (See 7.4) page now has the option to break recordings at specific fil

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 153 • For time zone correction in a text overlay, add the special sequence {+n} to the beginn

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 154 • The maximum number of cameras has been increased to 25. Please note that Blue Iris wil

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 155 • Support for audio from the DLink DCS-2000, as well as any DLink camera that uses the Vi

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 156 that the responsiveness of other alert types is not compromised. You may now specify a sc

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 157 2.11 • Support for the Sony SNC-DF70N MPEG4 camera • Enhanced support for audio capture

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 158 2.09 • JAVA/JPEG remote viewing now works with the JVM 1.4 or newer, and specifically has

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 15 • A new Schedule options page (See 11.) allows you to set a global schedule rather than ea

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 159 • A new option on the camera's image Post (See 7.7) page allows you to post regardle

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 160 observed under stress conditions, however, and I will work with the XVID development team

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 161 the keyframe setting. Because inter-frame compression greatly reduces the amount of hard-

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 162 • You now have the option of not using temp files for FTP image posting and archiving. S

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 163 files\Blue Iris\UScreenCapture.ax". You may still choose to use the older technology

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 164 • Clip folders. In addition to the previous Current (now known as New) and Archive (now

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 16 You may also review the version 1.x update list (See 15.2). 3. Getting Started Getting Sta

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 17 Step 1. Attach your camera to your computer and install its driver software according to t

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 18 portforward.com. This is a free site and offers router-specific step by step instructions.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 1 Table of Contents 1. Welcome ...

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 19 Step 6. Visit the Alerts (See 7.5) page to have Blue Iris sound an alarm, send an email, o

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 20 anything unexpected that happens during operation. There's a page that details Camera

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 21 Profile Shows the currently active global profile as configured on the Options/Schedule (S

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 22 The "status bar" is the name given to the area found at the very bottom of the Bl

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 23 6. Camera Windows Each camera's video is displayed within its own window with a title

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 24 However, there is a tool and several options to change this: This Layout slider alters th

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 25 To open the entire cameras window in full-screen, use the icon at the top-right of the Came

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 26 You may actually give a camera two names--a long name and a short name. The Name appears o

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 27 Adding additional cameras With the demo or if you have licensed the "full" versio

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 28 USB, Firewire, Analog When using a capture card, or a USB or Firewire (IEEE-1394) camera th

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 2 1. Welcome Welcome The Quick Start (See 3.) page will assist you with first-time configu

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 29 Video Proc-Amp for Motion Profile For analog cameras and USB webcams, it is possible to ma

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 30 Download and install the driver from btwincap.sourceforge.net. This installer allows you t

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 31 To connect one of these cameras to Blue Iris, you need to know its IP address and port. If

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 32 dependent in terms of the way the stream is formatted. Typical request paths include "

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 33 The De-interlace hi-res images option should be used when capturing video at 640x480 resolu

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 34 Blue Iris takes a snapshot from the current live view and opens a window like this one. T

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 35 Enter the text that you would like to appear on the image. In addition to selecting commo

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 36 You will first be prompted to select a file, and then this window will appear. To change

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 37 Click the "Add" button to see what's installed on your system. Not every f

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 38 If your IP camera has a microphone and is able to supply an audio stream, you may select t

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 3 • Google Cloud Messaging added for the Android client app. Progress on the app is proceedi

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 39 Set the Delay audio value in milliseconds if you find that audio playback precedes video pl

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 40 Profile You may choose to edit one of seven profiles. Each profile consists of a comple

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 41 Check Enable to use this key Blue Iris feature. The motion sensor is the common way in whi

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 42 The Object detect/reject option (previously "blob detection") provides for more a

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 43 The Restore window when triggered option will attempt to open the Blue Iris window when mot

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 44 This may be something like a waving flag or freeway in the background. With the Brush too

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 45 7.4 Recording The Camera Properties Record tab determines whether or not images from the ca

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 46 There are profile buttons at the top of the Blue Iris window which show the current global

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 47 Select the Mark new files for web archival option to automatically upload all new clips to

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 48 Iris will align groups on these intervals. That is, when you start recording at 3:29pm wit

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 4 • A web server connection (no login or other access) is no longer logged unless you also ha

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 49 The AVI format has the advantage of being easily shared from PC to PC, while Blue Iris DVR

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 50 the number of frames you are capturing per second to quickly calculate your disk space requ

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 51 7.5 Alerts When triggered by motion, sound, or an external source such as a Digital I/O dev

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 52 Click the "..." button to select a pre-existing file from your system's har

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 53 Choose your modem from the connection device list, and enter the phone number to call. It&

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 54 Use the Test button to place the call with a status window which provides immediate feedbac

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 55 Using the Sealevel SeaDAC Lite (P/N 8112 and similar), you may send a signal to an external

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 56 In addition to the server name from Options/Email (See 11.), you must also specify the rec

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 57 The iOS client app may receive push notifications from your Blue Iris system. You may use

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 58 Webcasting is segmented into two basic groups, JPEG/ActiveX and Windows Media. Note: In ge

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 5 occurs first, the schedule will also resume normal operation when the schedule calls for a p

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 59 Media • Must enable Windows Media in the camera's webcasting setup page • Efficient

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 60 For optimal efficiency, you should select the Windows Media Video 8 and Audio 9 codecs. I

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 61 For advanced uses, instead of streaming directly to a maximum number of client connections,

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 62 Profile You may choose to post during any combination of Profiles. The particular profile

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 63 You may wish to have a collection of the 10 most recent images, for example. When you sele

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 64 the startup and shutdown folders" option, Blue Iris will upload files that you specify

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 65 The graph shows a colored bar wherever the camera is active. The color corresponds to th

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 66 7.9 PTZ Many cameras have an integrated mechanical system for adjusting the viewing angle a

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 67 icon will allow you to save the new name to the list. If an existing name is selected, the

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 68 You may select any of the buttons 1-10 to move immediately to a preset number 1 through 10.

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 6 • Replaced the '0' PTZ preset button with a '10' • Changed alert list

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 69 Use the Add, Edit and Remove buttons to create a list of daily events such as PTZ presets,

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 70 You may specify a combination of profiles for which the event will be valid. Use the Sched

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 71 column on the Alerts (See 7.5) page. For email and SMS alerts, the message subject will in

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 72 The home page that is installed with Blue Iris (its name is default.htm) contains a window

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 73 If you want to access the Blue Iris Web Server from another PC on your LAN (local area hom

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 74 address "127.0.0.1" always refer to your own PC. Note: your PC's LAN IP add

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 75 The H.264 encoding objective may be either Constant quality (typically used for recording;

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 76 page. If you select to authenticate Non-LAN connections only, users connecting from within

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 77 Direct image, video and command requests In addition to serving HTML pages, Blue Iris can a

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 78 /cam/{cam-short-name}?pos=x Performs a PTZ command on the specified camera, where x= 0=left

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 7 3.12.00 - December 7, 2012 • The iOS client app is nearing completion and the JSON interfac

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 79 The first stats page contains a list of system messages. There are three classes of messa

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 80 In addition to the messages page, the stats window contains a page summarizing the activity

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 81 When a connection becomes idle, it becomes grayed, and is moved down the list as necessary

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 82 Notice that when the Viewer window is open, the live camera window is moved to the lower-ri

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 83 Alerts Represented by the red hazard icon. This folder contains snapshot images taken when

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 84 While viewing the New folder (or one of its subfolders), right-click on a clip and select S

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 85 Again, a bar graph is displayed, this time representing the number of clips or events list

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 86 Deleting Clips When you right-click on a clip and select the Delete menu, you have a choice

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 87 When you right-click on a clip and select the Export menu, you have a choice of Move, Copy

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 88 minutes. In addition to the quotas you specify, Blue Iris also attempts to automatically e

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 8 • The red circle on each camera window that indicates motion sense/trigger has been replace

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 89 The initial page is labeled About and contains copyright and registration information. Th

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 90 Startup This page allows you to control various aspects of the software's startup beha

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 91 a specified time period. This allows you to the opportunity, for example, to leave the hou

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 92 This page contains miscellaneous software behavior options: By default, the clip Viewer is

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 93 Select the Automatically play live audio on selected camera option to hear your live camera

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 94 Click "Add" to add a shortcut to the list. Highlight an existing shortcut and c

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 95 You may update a macro dynamically in one of three ways: 1. Click Set to file in order to

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 96 An account with Administrator privileges may perform remote administration, which is curre

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 97 You may enable Time restricted access which will limit the times during the day and/or week

Blue Iris Help Copyright © 2012 Perspective Software 98 You may select a preset email server, or select User defined to enter your mail server&apos