Blue Iris UI3

[bp2008]

A user on the BI software forum brought to my attention a possible problem with V6.0.1.8 aand UI3. It seems if an alert is deleted in UI3, it immediately removes it from BI but the UI3 screen does not update and leaves a "greyed out" place holder of the deleted alert, a refresh of the browser window fixes the display, I have only tested this using the chrome browser so I am not sure if it is only a chrome problem or not, I will test it on MS Edge and post back, I do not have a system with Firefox at the moment to test

That behavior is by design to prevent having a jarring layout shift in your clip list.

 

[Bruce_H]

Thanks; I passed this on to the user on the BI software forum

 

[jrbeddow]

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.

 

[bp2008]

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.

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.

 

[Brett_F]

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?

 

[bp2008]

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.

 

[Brett_F]

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.

 

[TheWaterbug]

I'm going to give new read-only logins to my BI install, exterior cameras only, to several of the neighbor tenants in my office complex. They are not very technical. Is there a way for me to push a set of UI3 defaults to them? I downloaded my own:

http.--<blue-iris-hostname>.81_ui3_settings_yyyy-mm-dd-something-something.json

Spoiler

{
  "ui3_allow_clip_deletion": "1",
  "ui3_allow_mouse_swipe_gestures": "0",
  "ui3_allow_touch_swipe_gestures": "1",
  "ui3_alwaysAllow1xVideoZoom": "0",
  "ui3_askForDelete": "All",
  "ui3_audioMute": "0",
  "ui3_audioVolume": "0.9339285714285714",
  "ui3_audio_buffer_ms": "700",
  "ui3_audio_codec": "FLAC",
  "ui3_browserZoomEnabled": "0",
  "ui3_bypass_single_camera_groups": "0",
  "ui3_cam_settings_map": "{}",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_backgroundColor": "#000000",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_backgroundOpacity": "100",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_cameraColor": "1",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_enabled": "0",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_fontSize": "10",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_minimumFontSize": "8",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_multiCameras": "1",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_position": "Top",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_singleCameras": "0",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_text": "Name",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_textColor": "#FFFFFF",
  "ui3_cameraLabels_textOpacity": "100",
  "ui3_camera_overlay_icon_audio_trigger": "0",
  "ui3_camera_overlay_icon_generic_trigger": "0",
  "ui3_camera_overlay_icon_motion_trigger": "0",
  "ui3_camera_overlay_icon_new_alerts": "0",
  "ui3_camera_overlay_icon_paused": "0",

file from the button at:

/ui3/storageinfo.htm

and I see where a savvy user could import that, but is there a way to force or at least prompt a new login to adopt these settings?

And how about in UI3 on a phone, where there's no easy way to browse for a file?

Thanks!

 

[bp2008]

I'm going to give new read-only logins to my BI install, exterior cameras only, to several of the neighbor tenants in my office complex. They are not very technical. Is there a way for me to push a set of UI3 defaults to them? I downloaded my own:

http.--<blue-iris-hostname>.81_ui3_settings_yyyy-mm-dd-something-something.json

and I see where a savvy user could import that, but is there a way to force or at least prompt a new login to adopt these settings?

And how about in UI3 on a phone, where there's no easy way to browse for a file?

Thanks!

Phones have file browser apps too, they just are not in-your-face as much as on windows/mac/linux, and the average phone user may never need to use it.

Anyway you can use UI3's local overrides system to add anything you want to UI3, including changing the default settings. Read this: UI3 Help

When you're logged into UI3 as an adminstrator, you can go to the bottom of the settings panel to find a button Create Script: "ui3-local-overrides.js" which downloads a ui3-local-overrides.js containing all your current settings. You can simply place that file into your Blue Iris/www/ui3/ directory to cause all your current settings at that time to become UI3's new default settings.

This overrides system is full of possibilities if you know your way around JavaScript or if you can get a chatbot to write the necessary code for you. You could for example have all those settings in the ui3-local-overrides.js file only get applied when location.hostname matches a certain value. That way you can send the non-technical folks a different DNS name that will resolve to your Blue Iris web server and use a different hostname yourself that doesn't apply the same customizations to UI3.

 

[TheWaterbug]

Anyway you can use UI3's local overrides system to add anything you want to UI3, including changing the default settings. Read this: UI3 Help

When you're logged into UI3 as an adminstrator, you can go to the bottom of the settings panel to find a button Create Script: "ui3-local-overrides.js" which downloads a ui3-local-overrides.js containing all your current settings. You can simply place that file into your Blue Iris/www/ui3/ directory to cause all your current settings at that time to become UI3's new default settings.

This overrides system is full of possibilities if you know your way around JavaScript or if you can get a chatbot to write the necessary code for you. You could for example have all those settings in the ui3-local-overrides.js file only get applied when location.hostname matches a certain value. That way you can send the non-technical folks a different DNS name that will resolve to your Blue Iris web server and use a different hostname yourself that doesn't apply the same customizations to UI3.

Neat! I'll have to play with this a bit. This just sets the global defaults for the first login from each client on each browser, correct? Once they're logged in, they can still edit whatever they want?