That behavior is by design to prevent having a jarring layout shift in your clip list.
Blue Iris UI3
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Bruce_H
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Haven't had time to thoroughly test this, but I seem to have a "new" problem with 6.0.1.8 and the UI3 links sent with Pushover alerts: they now don't open the exact clip I'm expecting, but rather some more or less random (but within the same hour) time from the correct camera. It may be from roughly a minute behind the expected time/clip, up to a half hour or so beforehand. Very bizarre, but for now I'm going to roll back to 6.0.1.7 to see if it goes back to normal.
Edit: Yes, moving back to 6.0.1.7 fixed this completely, even for the exact same (older, recorded with 6.0.1.8) clips that wouldn't link correctly from UI3 Pushover alerts under 6.0.1.8.
Edit: Yes, moving back to 6.0.1.7 fixed this completely, even for the exact same (older, recorded with 6.0.1.8) clips that wouldn't link correctly from UI3 Pushover alerts under 6.0.1.8.
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You should contact Blue Iris support about this. On 2025-12-23, I was notified of an issue where database compact operations (which happen nightly by default) were causing clips and/or alerts to get assigned different "locators"/"identification numbers". This would cause alerts or links sent the previous day to often open the wrong item the next day. Ken suggested that he was going to change the record locators to "a longer form record number which survives the compact operation". The change log says this change was included in BI 6.0.1.8, but clearly there is a bug in the change.
With 6.x.x.x I started to play with AI components for first time & when I hover over an alert, it auto plays a segment of that motion alert, I thought auto play could be disabled on hover on/off? I do like the feature but I was looking to better capture the AI Alerts that are written on top & they happen so quickly you can barely catch what is being reported. If that is not adjustable, perhaps doubling the exposure time of the information (Unknown/known & confidence level % of the alert from AI's perspective) could be adjusted before auto play of the video occurs?
Settings for this already exist in the Clips / Alerts category. Try configuring it as I've shown here, especially the two with red arrows in them.
Then you need to be looking at the "Alerts" list (clip list filtered to "Alerts").
There's a shortcut button for this near the top right.
And I believe you also need each camera in Blue Iris to have these settings enabled in the Camera Settings > Alert tab, because the dropdown list choice here is what tells Blue Iris you want a high-res jpeg to be saved with each alert.
Ah yes, & I want my cake & eat it too! Thank you for the clarification, also I do like the animation preview Alert, I default to always Alert view in UI3, I am never on the console, it is headless. The trick was to ensure on Record Tab JPEG is "checked" & chose "When Alerted" in the Drop down. Next quality 90% & left image creation to "auto (unchecked)". Then on the Alerts Tab changed to JPEG files (size quality on Record tab) from "database only". UI3 I tried both ways, I like the hybrid of "Yes" to Hi-Res mouse over & reverted back to off/No for the "No Preview animation for Alerts...". I like it this way actually, this was really what I wanted, just a second of clarity on the JPEG then off to the animated preview.
Thank you for taking the time to respond so quickly.
Thank you for taking the time to respond so quickly.