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  1. bp2008

    Camera works great on Main stream only, adding Sub stream screws up the Main stream!

    It now sounds like it is probably an issue of every iframe causing a stutter, which is also an issue sometimes in Blue Iris for reasons I don't entirely understand (something to do with i-frames either taking unexpectedly long for the camera to encode, or for Blue Iris to decode). I'd suggest...
  2. bp2008

    Camera works great on Main stream only, adding Sub stream screws up the Main stream!

    Weird. 3 Mbps is not really a high bit rate so I wouldn't expect it to cause problems. Anyway I'd recommend trying higher bit rates too instead of just lower ones. If you don't record the main stream continuously, then it can even be advisable to set it super high so you have all the quality...
  3. bp2008

    Camera works great on Main stream only, adding Sub stream screws up the Main stream!

    Also look in Blue Iris's status window (or the camera settings, general tab) to verify that the main stream and sub stream frame rates are both stable and close to the numbers you expected. E.g. on one of my cameras which is configured for 20 FPS, 20 iframe on both streams, it is not out of the...
  4. bp2008

    Camera works great on Main stream only, adding Sub stream screws up the Main stream!

    Well I would expect that to work just fine. How long does the video freeze when it freezes? Is it just a short pause, like the video is only stuttering? If so that can be fairly normal for Blue Iris, which is not really good at adhering to frame timestamps very precisely. As I understand it...
  5. bp2008

    Buga Sphere - Hoax?

    Maybe something like this.
  6. bp2008

    Camera works great on Main stream only, adding Sub stream screws up the Main stream!

    What did you assign for frame rate and i-frame interval for the main and sub stream (in camera's web configuration)?
  7. bp2008

    Blue Iris UI3

    Oh, that is totally not possible via UI3. Sorry.
  8. bp2008

    Blue Iris UI3

    I could do that, but typically the group view is your starting point, and it feels wrong to make it impossible to return to the starting point via the next/previous camera mechanism. I think the option you want is "Mark as AI-confirmed" which is in the context menu (right click or long press...
  9. bp2008

    Hikvision password reset tool returns "device refused to process"

    Did you ever try this password resetting tool? GitHub - bp2008/HikPasswordHelper: A tool which exploits a backdoor in Hikvision camera firmwares circa 2014-2016 to help the owner change a forgotten password. It doesn't discover what the password was, but it may still be able to reset the...
  10. bp2008

    Blue Iris on Apple TV

    I doubt there's ever an official Blue Iris app for Apple TV. Too small of an audience to be worth their developer time.
  11. bp2008

    Hikvision password reset tool returns "device refused to process"

    I doubt this is the exact tool people have been using, but it might work: GitHub - WormChickenWizard/hikvision-decrypter: A simple cross platform program written in C++ used for decrypting the configuration files created by Hikvision Security Cameras. Successor to my hikvision-xor-decrypter...
  12. bp2008

    Forum attachment issues?

    But that would cause significant downtime, during which nothing new could be recorded. Oh wait. Happening already.
  13. bp2008

    Another Available Previous Version

    I don't know. Latest version seems fine to me.
  14. bp2008

    Blue Iris UI3

    Oops. Without an animation I forgot that swiping left means "go right". lmao. I will change the default behavior and add a reversing option.
  15. bp2008

    Looking for the best way to take a picture every hour on a few cameras

    Be aware when pulling snapshots directly from cameras: The quality of the snapshot may be configurable in the camera's web interface, and will significantly affect the image file size. It can potentially be significantly higher quality than you could get from snapshotting the H.264/H.265 video...
  16. bp2008

    Another Available Previous Version

    As of right now, the latest in the dropdown is 5.9.9.67. Then 5.9.9.59. Those are the only two in there from 2025. Blue Iris versioning is a bit of a mess. We can really only assume it follows the scheme of major.minor.build.revision or something, where incrementing an earlier (more...
  17. bp2008

    Blue Iris UI3

    UI3-298 fixes screen keepalive when UI3 is loaded with plain HTTP. It does require a user interaction (clicking anywhere in UI3) before the browser will let it activate. Tested in Chrome on Android 16. Screen keepalive should now work with both HTTP and HTTPS, even when the video player is...
  18. bp2008

    Blue Iris UI3

    This is finally implemented in UI3-297. It should be in the next Blue Iris update. I've updated the screen keepalive library (nosleep.js) in UI3-297. In previous UI3 releases, this nosleep.js library caused UI3 to put a tiny low-resource video player offscreen in an attempt to make the...
  19. bp2008

    Blue Iris UI3

    Swipe left and right is on my issue tracker I think (as a feature request) but I am not eager to implement it because of the complexity to make it work very well. UI3 already has low level touch handling on the video player coded to pan the view when the video is zoomed in. So this would only...
  20. bp2008

    How would you do this install, that has a 3 ft crawl space?

    I would suggest going to a tool rental shop, describe the project to them, and have them recommend a suitable drill. Then hopefully you can find the appropriate bits for it without having to shop online. Concrete drilling is pretty different from wood or even metal drilling. You need drill...
  21. bp2008

    Blue Iris posting empty pictures randomly

    Yes, they do, but they also add complexity and bugs and are just not as well tested as having those things turned off.
  22. bp2008

    STP Blocked Network Loop

    I did some googling, and it seems that ubiquiti hardware has issues where it sometimes has false-positive loop detections using STP (spanning tree protocol) and therefore it disables ports that are not part of an actual loop...
  23. bp2008

    Providence, RI planning to install "noise cameras"; detected violators would receive ticket in the mail

    I wonder how competently that is implemented. There will be false positives. How is one supposed to contest the issue? Do all the garbage trucks get dozens of tickets every day? What about thunderstorms, strong wind, an air conditioner falling out of a third-story window nearby?
  24. bp2008

    UI3, FPS drop to 2 above 1.5k res

    I would also say that hardware acceleration often won't work properly with unusually high resolutions. 4x8k size whatever that means, is almost certainly an unusually high resolution. So I'd suggest disabling hardware decoding for that camera. If you enabled hardware encoding in BI settings >...
  25. bp2008

    STP Blocked Network Loop

    Does that camera have wifi? How do you know that port is involved?
  26. bp2008

    STP Blocked Network Loop

    "STP Blocked Network Loop" means your Unifi gateway thinks there is a loop on your network. There's a small chance the STP (spanning tree protocol) notification is a false positive detection, but it is definitely worth investigating. A network loop causes serious performance issues, sometimes...
  27. bp2008

    Blue Iris posting empty pictures randomly

    For good measure, make sure "Hardware decode" is set to "No" in the Video tab. Also make sure "Limit decoding unless required" is unchecked. It also should not hurt to delete the camera from Blue Iris and add it again from scratch to make sure it has a 100% fresh configuration in case an...
  28. bp2008

    Anyone having recent OpenVPN problems?

    Yikes. With so many failure modes, it is amazing anything ever works. I recently (within the last 1-2 years) had a bunch of trouble with intermittent OpenVPN connections. One remote location which used to work just fine just suddenly stopped being able to pass traffic through its OpenVPN...
  29. bp2008

    Auto-Maximize in UI3 - How to cycle between multiple simultaneous alerts?

    Auto-maximize should only be looking at the cameras that are part of the group you are currently watching. Right now that is the only way to control it.
  30. bp2008

    Driving in Reverse? WTF?

    Maybe he recently watched a tiktok or youtube video with a vehicle whose body was mounted in reverse and thought it was cool. Those videos are actually pretty hilarious.
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