UI3-254

Version 254

• The "Full Camera List" dialog now includes a summary of bit rate totals and megapixels per second.
• The "Camera Properties" dialog now includes a link to the camera's web interface. The existence of this link does not guarantee that the link will work. The IP must be reachable, and it must respond to HTTP requests on port 80.
• Clip and alert items will now be background-updated for at least 180 seconds, up from 60 seconds.
• The "Stats for nerds" panel now includes a "Video Player" row, showing which video player is being used and (if known) whether or not it is using hardware acceleration.
• The "Stats for nerds" panel now includes the "Renderer" row when the JavaScript H.264 player is active, showing what HTML5 canvas technology is being used ("webgl2", "webgl", "2d", etc).
• Improved compatibility of the JavaScript H.264 player's YUV-to-RGB converter code. It previously only knew how to use WebGL 1. Now it can also use WebGL 2 and fall back to a slower software-based converter if WebGL fails to initialize.

UI3-253

Version 253

• "Edit Memo" is now a context menu option for clips and alerts in the Clips tab.
• The "memo" field is now updated when new data is received for a clip/alert.
• In the Camera Properties panel, the dropdown options "Continuous + Alerts" and "Continuous + Triggered" have been renamed to "Continuous sub + Alerts" and "Continuous sub + Triggered", to match the Blue Iris local console.
• Help file revisions and redesign so that the home page does not have any sections hidden, to enable CTRL + F finding to access the entire help contents.

UI3-252

Version 252

• Fixed a bug introduced in version 251 where touchscreen zooming could cause unwanted panning when adding touch points.
• The calendar filter on the Clips tab now takes into account your currently selected database view when loading red dots on the calendar days.
• Fixed bug where the HTML5 video player did not automatically switch back to the superior <video> rendering mode after maximizing a camera and briefly using the <canvas> rendering mode during the transition.
• All json API requests now include the command name as a URL parameter intended to be ignored by Blue Iris (e.g. json?_camlist) so the requests are more easily identifiable for debugging. Better late than never.
• Login page version increased to 29 in order to cache-bust the updated login script which includes the previously mentioned json API change.

UI3-251

Version 251

• The advanced PTZ function "3D Positioning" is now usable on supported cameras in a group camera stream without needing to maximize the camera first. This capability is accessed via the middle mouse button and is not available from group camera streams on devices without one.
  • Tip: 3D Positioning is available on most new Dahua PTZ cameras when you select the Dahua New V4 protocol in Blue Iris.
• The "timeline=" URL parameter can now accept a negative number of milliseconds to offset from "live".
• The "timeline=" URL parameter can now accept a date string in any format parseable by JavaScript, to make it easier for users to do manual entry or interoprate with other applications.
• Added "pause=1" URL parameter to allow clip or timeline video to start in the paused state. It is currently not possible to start live video paused.

UI3-250

Version 250

• Fixed a bug where Timeline setting "Highlight Hovered Thumbnail" only worked if you were actively dragging the timeline, not just hovering.
• Added Timeline setting "Draw Only Hovered Thumbnail" based on user request.

UI3-249

Version 249

• Added "Server Uptime" option for the Status Area.
• Chrome on iOS and all browsers on Android are no longer prevented from dynamically updating the URL parameters in the current URL.

UI3-248

Version 248

• Mousing over a timeline alert thumbnail will cause it to be highlighted and drawn on top of other thumbnails.
• Clicking a timeline alert thumbnail will cause the timeline to seek to the start of the alert. This behavior can be disabled in UI Settings > Timeline.
• Misc minor bugfixes related to the timeline.

UI3-247

Version 247

• The timeline now shows alert thumbnails when zoomed in near the limit. This is configurable via UI Settings > Timeline where the zoom limits can be adjusted and thumbnails can be enabled for group timeline views if desired.

UI3-246

Version 246

Feature Additions

• Added URL parameter clipsearch (shorter version: cs) to prepopulate the clip list search filter.
• Added URL parameters datestart (ds) and dateend (de) to prepopulate the clip list calendar filter.
  • Accepted date formats are YYYY-MM-DD and unix epoch timestamps in seconds or milliseconds. Although these timestamps are capable of conveying high precision, that precision is not used. The timestamps only define which days are selected in the calendar filter.
• Added main menu option: Copy Current URL.
• Added clip list context menu option Copy clip URL/Copy alert URL which puts a clean URL on the clipboard which will load the clip/alert.
• Added Download Image link to the Alert Properties dialog for alerts that have a high-resolution jpeg.
  • Known issue: the "Download Image" link may appear for some alerts that do not have a high-resolution jpeg, due to UI3 not actually knowing for sure if it exists or not.

Bugfixes

• Browsers are now less likely to try to autofill your user name into the clip list filter search input.
• The clip list context menu's "Download..." option now explicitly mentions "clips" and never mentions "alerts" because this button has always just downloaded the clip's video file.
• The clip list context menu's "Download..." option no longer shows the file size for alert objects because the given size failed to accurately represent the size of the download.

Other Changes

• Revised help file with documentation of the new URL parameters.
• UI3's dynamically updated address bar now includes more information to convey the current UI state, especially the clip list filter selections.
• The Download option in the Clip/Alert Properties dialog is now more clearly labeled Download Clip.

UI3-245

Version 245

• Added "search" filter input to Clips tab.
  • Requires Blue Iris newer than 5.7.7.7.
  • For those who would rather have the space back, this filter input can be hidden via UI Settings > Clips / Alerts > Show filter by "search" input.
• Slightly reduced margin between filter inputs on Clips tab.
• Removed web application manifest line "orientation": "any" because it was found to prevent a mobile device's screen rotation lock feature from functioning properly when running UI3 as an installed app.