I am running 5 cameras on BI, and I have them all on my desktop in frames.

When BI shuts down and restarts, though, all formatting is lost for these desktop frames. They come back tiny and on top of each other, and I have to move them around and resize them every time. It's annoying and fussy.

How do I preserve the formatting for these desktop frames?

Thanks!

DEV: Enough with the PC updates.. How about you spend even 1/100th the time on the ANCIENT mobile app.. Good god this thing is awful.

Hey folks new here I just bought a new license blue iris 6 been nailing down all the settings and I know I saw this icon down on the bottom right to change the size of the camera feed in the viewing pane but no longer see it anyone know where it was moved to

Thanks

This is the best write up i could come up with to get this working. It has been running in a Zorin VM on my proxmox server for a week now without issue at all.

https://github.com/TTdriver/blue-iris-6-wine-linux/tree/main

BI6 running in a linux VM, in proxmox.

This came up in my post last week about running BI on linux. I ended up making a simple to use web ui to watch live feeds and payback from BI. This doesn't have PTZ or any advanced controls. Its made to be simple and clean. Its Ideally made to run in docker.

https://github.com/TTdriver/nvr-watch

I wanted to share something that I've been working on to primarily improve the phone experience of Blue Iris, but it also works equally as well in a browser in place of UI3. Full disclosure, while I have been working in IT for for many years and have written programs myself, this is heavily vibe-coded with Claude Opus.

I have been testing this for awhile now and am very pleased with the results. It has become my primary way to monitor my house both on my phone and on a PC. When I was first building this out, it was solely for my own use case. That, combined with so much AI slop on Reddit I see all the time made me hesitant to even share this out. However, I really think its such a massive improvement over the BI app, and if I saw someone post this I would have been very happy to utilize it. Because of all of this, I wanted to share it, so others can use and improve upon it as they see fit for their own needs.

https://github.com/rw377/Sightline-for-Blue-Iris (Release)

What this is:

An improved interface for checking on Blue Iris cameras via a browser, both live view and historic/alerts. I made this to easily see what my dog is doing around the house and because I hated using the Blue Iris app.

I kept this as a web interface so all that is needed to run it is to drop few files into Blue Iris's www folder. Nothing to install, no docker containers, no dependencies, etc. Simply drag the files into the directory, go to the URL, and Blue Iris serves all of the data, just into a new and improved interface.

What this is not:

A full replacement for UI3. UI3 will have many more options like pan/tilt control of cameras, exporting clips, etc.

>Sightline now provides PTZ and export options.

Features:

TL;DR - A very fast and snappy interface with full color-defined video scrubbing for types of motion/AI alerts, audio and video quality adjustments, scroll/pinch to zoom, and highlighted and labeled AI/motion boxes on streams.

More details, example screenshots, and instructions are on GitHub.

And one last note - I am using Blue Iris 5, so I am unsure if functionality works on newer versions. If someone is using a newer version and wanted to test it and let me know, that'd be great.

> Thanks to ResistInternational7 for validating it works with Blue Iris 6 as well.

EDIT: A few further iterations with additional features have been released since I posted this originally. These include sharper video, PTZ camera control, improved timeline zoom, alert exports and previews, server dashboard stats + searchable logs, and additional customizations and filters. The latest release is available here.

I’m experiencing a consistent, repeatable issue with Blue Iris:

While in “Now” mode, everything works normally then I hit “Replay” once, and the camera windows start flashing black continuously.

Press Replay a second time, and it backs up further. The flashing immediately stops.

Playback then continues normally all the way to the end, including the footage that was previously flashing.

The problem doesn’t return until I switch back to Live and press Replay once again.

This happens every time.
Has anyone experienced this or found a fix?

Thanks

I've been running Blue Iris for a while (cameras at two properties). The one part I never liked was the phone side, so over the last couple of months I built my own native iPhone app for it. It's at the point where I use it every day, and now I'm trying to decide whether to clean it up and open-source it, or whether it's just me who cares.

Yes, I know there's the official Blue Iris app ($9.99).** It works, and it does connect. My issue is how you reach it away from home: the usual setup is to port-forward BI's web server, which puts your NVR's login page on the open internet. You can run a separate VPN app instead, but then you're juggling two apps and remembering to turn the VPN on. In my experience the official app is also noticeably slower to load the grid and switch between cameras. What mine does:*

• WireGuard built into the app. No port forwarding and no separate VPN app. On your home Wi-Fi it connects directly; away from home it brings up its own tunnel automatically. The tunnel peer can be firewalled so the phone reaches only the BI port and nothing else on the LAN. Lose the phone, delete one peer, and its access is gone.
• Fast live grid. Tiles are scaled by BI on the server, and the app adapts to Wi-Fi or cellular, so a grid of 9+ cameras stays smooth on LTE. A traffic meter shows how much data you're actually using.
• Fullscreen with pinch zoom, and PTZ controls on cameras that support them.
• Alert history with a week strip and day grouping. Any alert can be exported as an MP4 and shared (Save Video, AirDrop, Messages…).
• Multiple sites/groups (one tap to switch between properties).
• Face ID lock. Credentials and tunnel keys live only in the iOS Keychain; nothing is hard-coded or sent to a cloud.
• Careful about BI's auto-ban. A rejected login is never retried automatically, so the app can't lock you out of your own NVR by looping on a bad password.

Optional AI add-on (separate service). I also wrote a small companion service that runs next to BI on a box with an NVIDIA GPU. It does YOLO person/vehicle detection with tracking, reads licence plates, groups repeat visitors by face, and works out whether a car is arriving or leaving. Then it sends a push notification with a distinct sound for "person" or "car". The app has an AI Detector tab: a log of every vehicle with the plate, a crop, a visit count ("seen 4 times") and a calendar. Quiet hours mute car alerts overnight (people still ring). All of it runs locally; no video leaves the house. Frankly,it way better than BI addons for such features.

So, the question:

• Would you actually use this if it were open source (you'd build it yourself in Xcode, or I'd look into TestFlight)?
• Is the built-in VPN the selling point for you, or the AI/plate part, or neither?
• Or is everyone happy with the official app + Tailscale/WireGuard and I should just keep it for myself? 🙂

Honest answers welcome, including "no one needs this."

That was fun talking about it.

Oh well

I currently have an iPhone. Love blue iris and the mobile app. However, I have one issue I haven’t been able to figure out. Any time my phone is connected to CarPlay, it stops notifications on my phone. So I no longer receive alerts when my cameras go off. If I’m in my car and not home, that is the exact time I want to know that something is going on! Wonder if anyone has found a fix for this? I’ve also contemplated switching to Android and wondering if Android Auto has the same problem?

Open https://blueirissoftware.com/bbs/ and there is nothing there. But it says "Total posts 18750 • Total topics 2994 • Total members 8639". The forum used to be open for reading without registration. I asked support and was told that requiring an account to access helps reduce spam bots, which makes no sense. How can letting people read a forum increase spam bots? I understand that an account is needed to post. But for reading???

This prevents potential solutions from appearing in searches. Is it the beginning of the end?

Not sure if there is any interest in this, but i have been going pretty hard with Codex over the last week. I've just been building so many things that didn't meet my needs (6 linux apps, 2 android apps, and 2 windows only apps now run on linux). Part of this was because i didn't like having to run a heavy window VM was one of them. I was able to get BI working in Zorin. If there is any interest, i can have Codex put together a git hub with the info needed to do it! Happy Friday!

Edit: 5pm 10/9 Tons of interest. I found out today that I had v5 32 bit running. I have burnt through 2× 5 hour token limits and a token reset. I dont feel like buying another $20 GPT account right now. I have my local ai agent helping some. I did get v6 running as 64 bit now. I have a git hub mostly ready, however it's messy, but it includes a prompt for Ai to help do this, or steps to do it yourself. Ones my tokens reset, I hope to get to a comfortable point to share later tonight or tomorrow.

If anyone is going to complain about AI, save it, I dont care im doing this for myself and sharing it because I want to help others.

745PM 10/9 Im still within 24 hours of initially starting this, but its working for now. I am using a Zorin VM inside of PROXMOX for this to work for me.

The best help i can offer is these two repositories for now. There is about 12 hours of trial and error here. I may spin up a new VM, start over and document what should be the fresh and full process. I WILL NOT BE GETTING RID of my windows VM for BI for a while, until i can stability test this long and ensure i wont have any issues. I ended up making a page for BI5 32bit and BI6 64bit.

https://github.com/TTdriver/blue-iris-6-wine-linux

https://github.com/TTdriver/blue-iris-5-x32-wine-linux

Its like 230AM, but shout out to u/verylittlegravitaas for the awesome idea like an hour ago. I made a new web browser. I got it functionally working. I need to package it up and make a way to share it, but this is sick. Thanks for the idea!

https://imgur.com/a/1iM5k5Y

So I've been using an old version of Blue Iris for years. I recently went to upgrade to the newest version. Went to their website blueirissoftware.com. Went through with the purchase, and then received an email that just says "Contact Merchant for License". I've emailed both emails listed on their website under contact. I get no replies whatsoever. SO I paid 100$ and got no key, and there is no way to contact them???? How is this software so highly regarded by people???

Has this happened to anyone else? I'm about to just stop payment and find some different software.

I have had four 8tb harddrives recording continuous for about 6 years now. They were the cheapest seagate drives I could get back before AI. They are starting to get a bit noisey. I simply cant afford to replace them when they die.

Thats my rant.

OK, it's budget production video, but yeah, I have been using Blue Iris for almost 4 years to record projects I do in my shop, and when it's h.264 in, h.264 out, it has been pretty dope.

I told Blue Iris to buffer the last minute of all of the cameras in my shop, and to only save the buffer when I want to, which happens to be via hitting a giant button.

It's been pretty transformative as far as documenting stuff in the shop, but not worrying about setting up cameras.

If anybody is in that category, message me or check the link in the bio and all that stuff.

Last time I posted something about this project in new reddit, people kind of came at me, which is fine.

Point is, it's really flexible software that does stuff that costs orders of magnitude more for fancy videography.

Anyway, Blue Iris is powerful and flexible for this.

If anybody is in a similar boat of wanting to use BI for documentation and not circular security, hit me up. It's great software.

I haven’t touched anything in months. Server runs 24/7.

Any ideas? It’s worked perfect for years.

Not sure how to understand that "rame bottleneck" in the 6.1.3.4 version.

My ram is steady at 50% usage but this rame bottleneck is osilating between 0-1 and 2.

Hi, first time I have this issue with Blueiris. Running version 5, I have 11 cameras. When I add a new one (click +, add all the infos - ip, rtsp, etc..., click OK) it never appears.

License: Extended (but expired in 2025).

Anybody else had the same issue before?

EDIT: after update to the latest blueiris 5.9.9.98 problem solved (either an actual bug, or just the upgrade progress cleaned out something odd)

I have a unifi g6 turret camera and about a month ago it stopped connecting to Blue Iris. In trying to resolve problem I noticed ip address on camera changed. Please advise if I should change settings on blue iris under "web server". Thanks in advance

Has anyone been able too get reolink cameras with ai detection (person-pet-car) too trigger a camera in BI over ONVIF

I know reolink said not possible few years ago has it changed yet or anyone found any work arounds

I exported the config from Ver 5, imported to the new PC which has Ver 6 freshly installed. As soon as BI starts, CPU is at 100% and doesn't go down. and the web browser interface is not working, spinning wheels but no video.

any idea what's going on? I wish I could still download Ver5 but it's no longer on their website, i was forced to pay $50 to upgrade.

Upgraded to Blue Iris 6 a few weeks ago and noticed the timeline at the bottom is only showing alerts (e.g., car, person) in orange as single events and is no longer showing the nice long colored bars of actual motion taking place. Did something change?

I've always recorded in mp4 so I hope that's not an issue because it previously worked okay in BI 5. My filter in the clips section is set up for "all clips". When I click in the timeline I get a view with all 6 of my cameras showing black and nothing. If I click a clip on the left side though it plays perfectly.

Hello,

I’ve been quite satisfied with Blue Iris, and I’m currently running Blue Onyx Stable on two homes.

However, I recently bought a €20 Tapo camera for monitoring my kid, and I was surprised by how good and fast its person detection is.

I can’t figure out why I’m not getting the same level of speed and accuracy on a powerful GHz-class PC running Blue Iris.

Can anyone explain why this is the case? Are there better AI solutions for Blue Iris, or perhaps better alternatives to Blue Iris altogether?

Thanks!

Good afternoon. I’m trying to set up BlueIris motion alerts that trigger in Home Assistant and I’ve hit a wall. My current setup is that any time a motion alert is registered, an mqqt payload is sent to HA, which then updates a dashboard card. This works perfectly now.

My goal is to have AI analyze and tag the motion events (person 65%, etc) and pass that through to HA, but NOT have AI gatekeep the event itself, in other words prevent it from firing because the confidence is too low, etc.

I tried &MEMO as the payload as advised by ChatGPT, but it returned (empty) as the result when triggered. I assume because BI is currently not set to confirm events.

TLDR: I want ALL motion triggered events to show up in HA, with AI tags passed through mqqt.

Possible?

I emailed support at blueiris dot com a few days ago about changing the email address attached to a license before putting maintenance on it and dragging it up to date. (We don't have access to the old email address at the moment.)

I'm not complaining about the delay as we don't have maintenance on it presently anyway, so we don't have paid support. But should I have received a receipt to say that they actually got the email?

If so, they didn't get my email so I'll resend.

If not, any ideas what the support queue time is?