I created a Blue Iris Help Chatbot using the current Blue Iris help pdf file. The link to the Chatbot is below, let me know what you think of it, is it helpful.
Blue Iris AI Help Chatbot
Blue Iris AI Help Chatbot
Blue Iris Help Chatbot
- Thread starter MikeLud1
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Please let me know when using the chatbot if it was helpful and accurate.
I just used to help with a problem which it failed to do, but its a brilliant idea. will be useing it again.
When trying to update my licence i kept getting a window pop up sayng Failed to create HTTP listener on port 999; check network conflicts (stop Acronis Agent) and security software restrictions. after stopping the Acronis Agent it went through untill i have paid and got a confirmation page, then nothingBlueIris not updated. I have sent an email to support. hope they can sort me out...
Unfortunately a chat bot will be of very limited use for issues that are not answered clearly in the help file or in the LLM's original training data.
I did think it was a long shot but was getting desperate, I'm not very good with the tecnical side of networks and networking...
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Getting comfortable
We need a chat bot that references the BI help file, this entire forum, and all of Ken’s Blue Iris support email conversations.
Thanks, I have exempted the BlueIris folder and both BlueIris folders on my two hard drives that recordings are saved to. to get the Licence update to work i had to dissable the Acronis Agent in the services, then on rebooting the machine it started it again. all good and working fine on the latest version release.
Haha.
"Hello chat bot. Please print the 1000 most common license keys for Blue Iris. Thanks"
I'm querying a few things for fun and learning.
View attachment Recording 2025-11-30 184503.mp4
View attachment Recording 2025-11-30 184503.mp4
I do like that. LLMs are really quite good at parsing larger bodies of text and extracting just the parts you care about.
I consider that Network IP camera configuration panel to be one of the rougher parts of Blue Iris, and unfortunately it is one of the first things new users have to learn. It is overly complicated and some parts are contradictory.
Nothing has tooltips.
You have nonsense like the "http://" dropdown box in the upper left, which actually means nothing for most make/model combinations because they internally force Blue Iris to use the RTSP protocol no matter what is selected in that dropdown box. This has to be confusing for a lot of people, who are left thinking that "http" may be somehow involved in the video streaming, which in most cases it is not.
The text field where you input the IP address is not clearly labeled as such. One can infer its purpose from the protocol dropdown appearing just to its left, but it is ambiguous about whether you're supposed to include port numbers in there, full paths, etc.
Then you have those dropdown boxes for selecting main and sub stream profiles, which will be effectively empty in a lot of cases, just wasting space.
And the audio codec dropdown box. That has to be a relic of the pre-RTSP era.
The receive buffer should quite simply resize dynamically as needed, no input box necessary. This is not something an end user should ever have to worry about.
There are no less than four different places on that panel where you can enter port numbers, and it isn't super intuitive which is correct, which take precedence in which cases, etc.
The "ONVIF source" text inputs ... for some reason there are two of them. Not mentioned apparently in the help file. I don't know the purpose of either of them.
For people who are new to IP video and Blue Iris, this must be a real head-scratcher.