Blue Iris UI3

Since Blue Iris still doesn't offer full-featured update checking functionality for apps/UI3 to use, I spent some time tonight to build a proxy server that can provide the update check function in lieu of an official solution.

This is an unofficial solution and could break at any time, but I intend to fix/maintain it for as long as it is possible and useful.

It is released in UI3-334 and is currently accessible to administrator users via UI3's Main Menu > Server Control panel. A future UI3 update will put this directly into the main menu so it'll be a little more accessible.

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I'm no longer seeing Alerts on the TImeline. I have the continuos recording bars but no alert markers. (I have tested since the issue mentioned below).

Prior to this Alerts haven't been firing in any event (I have tested for alert markers since) but this seems to be because the setting in AI reverted to "No GPU". Previously this would have worked but I've now been forced to manually select "Intel 630 Intergrated graphics" is this correct now? (The other option is Microsoft software basic rendering).
 
I'm no longer seeing Alerts on the TImeline. I have the continuos recording bars but no alert markers. (I have tested since the issue mentioned below).

Prior to this Alerts haven't been firing in any event (I have tested for alert markers since) but this seems to be because the setting in AI reverted to "No GPU". Previously this would have worked but I've now been forced to manually select "Intel 630 Intergrated graphics" is this correct now? (The other option is Microsoft software basic rendering).
I can't answer that. All I can say is alerts still work for me and appear in the timeline across every system I've seen (on BI 6.1.0.0). But I do not use AI in Blue Iris so I am rather unfamiliar with its setup quirks.
 
Previously, every trigger appeared on the timeline as a line with a person symbol above it. Now the timeline is just plain bars of background recording giving no visual indication of trigger events.

I don't use in camera AI as the 4kt's seem to struggle with many options ticked. They've always seem underpowered, so I off load as much as possible to BI & AI especially.
 
I just checked mine as I use AI within BI. Mine all looks good. Have you tried deleting the cookie for your BI machines IP# ? Running 6.1.0.1 UI3 337

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Deleting cookies shouldn't make a difference except it might help you get a new session string from Blue Iris (not guaranteed; Blue Iris session handling is rather quirky; the logout button doesn't actually log out the session, etc). Something it might do is clear the localStorage data for UI3 which resets all of UI3's settings. There is a setting in UI3 for controlling the vertical orange bars that mark alerts, but there's no setting for hiding the icons.

Aside, I notice there is some glitch currently affecting UI3's ability to display alert thumbnails in the timeline (when you zoom in all the way). I don't know the cause yet. Possibly related but I doubt it.
 
Great job on this UI3! One feature i'd love to see is the ability to "disable" or "enable" a camera directly on the right click menu (like below stats for nerds and above properties), would be seriously very beneficial for my use case.
 
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Great job on this UI3! One feature i'd love to see is the ability to "disable" or "enable" a camera directly on the right click menu (like below stats for nerds and above properties), would be seriously very beneficial for my use case.
If you click properties below stats for nerds on the bottom of the next page is the ENBABLE/DISABLE button. Its not directly on that page but not sure if you knew it wasn't too far away :)
 
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Thanks for pointing that out, I just had to make sure I was logged in as admin to see the options.
 
Great job on this UI3! One feature i'd love to see is the ability to "disable" or "enable" a camera directly on the right click menu (like below stats for nerds and above properties), would be seriously very beneficial for my use case.
+1 for this - I'd love it direct on the right hand click menu without having to dig down into the cam properties first.
 
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I'm adding the Enable / Disable context menu item as requested. It'll be in UI3-344.

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However it will not be included in the menu by default. It will be a yes/no toggle setting in the camera properties panel just above the pre-existing Enable / Disable button (so anyone who regularly uses that button should discover the new setting easily).

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The same setting is also at the bottom of the "Video Player (Advanced)" section of UI Settings:

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I should probably mention, in order to re-enable a disabled camera, your group needs to be configured to show disabled cameras. You can configure this in Blue Iris or in UI3's context menu > Group Settings. If you don't have that enabled, you can still go to the UI3 main menu > Full Camera List, and access the camera properties of any disabled camera there.
 
Just wanted to say thanks to @bp2008 for the ui3-local-overrides support in the www\ui3 folder. I had no idea it existed until I stumbled on it, and it was exactly what I needed. Being able to add to UI3 without touching ui3.js, and not having to worry about an update wiping it out, is really well thought out. Thanks for all the work you've put into UI3.