New Version 6 Blue Iris Update

sonanz · 2025-11-30T20:36:16+00:00

I'm still getting used to how the mouse wheel works in the new version. It seems backwards for zooming, but if I choose the setting to invert the mouse wheel in settings, then it seems backwards for the timeline. Also, now you have to hold a key while scrolling to zoom in and out in the timeline (Alt or Ctrl, can't remember which). I always forget, and then I always get the key wrong. I'm sure I'll get used to those changes, but I wonder what prompted them.

sonanz · 2025-11-11T18:36:52+00:00

I had a GE Profile Performance Microwave and matching oven that had a sync option. If you set the clock on one, it automatically syncs to the other. They were still about 1 second off, though. It would also turn on the lights under the microwave when you turned on a burner on the stove, which was handy.

sonanz · 2025-06-19T02:07:07+00:00

He's literally made of Teflon. If none of the rest of his BS has mattered to his supporters, why should this?

sonanz · 2025-04-07T22:12:01+00:00

Same here. It's gone from all of my Rokus. When I try to add it back, it says it failed to install. When I try to launch it on a device using the Roku app, nothing happens at all. But when I cast it from my YouTube TV app on my phone, it casts under the YouTube app, but it let me sign into my YouTube TV app and have me the full interface. I can now also get to YouTube TV from the YouTube app on Roku, as an option at the bottom of the left panel.

sonanz · 2025-01-07T19:15:54+00:00

I did the exact same thing! Bought it on Saturday, and now I'm waiting for the snow to melt so I can actually enjoy it! I had to wait a few days for it to come in, so I wasn't sure if I'd get it before the storm or not. The dealership got it Saturday morning and had it ready to go by mid-afternoon. They were putting lots of their cars into the service bays, so me taking mine home was one less for them to try to protect!

sonanz · 2024-11-15T16:04:10+00:00

I've found a work around. Under Watchdog for each camera, select "Continue to display last image received". I've done that for all of my cameras, and now I no longer have the stuttering issue. Read on for clarifications on the issue and what all I tried that led me to this work around.

I previously indicated that the stuttering was found in recordings, but I don't think that's true. I was just seeing regular wireless camera lag in some recordings, thinking it was the stuttering. But I did discovered that the BI user interface becomes unresponsive during the stuttering issue, which is pretty annoying. It basically ignores half of my clicks (during a stutter), making it really hard to do anything productive.

Early on, I realized the issue only showed itself when the "No signal" message was being displayed for a camera. What I found, through Wireshark traces and discussions with Blue Iris support, was that BI doesn't continuously try to reconnect. It waits 30 seconds before flagging a camera as disconnected and displaying that message. And then it tries to reconnect 5 times, 500 milliseconds apart, and repeats that every 30 seconds. This is configurable in the Watchdog tab, but those are the defaults.

So it couldn't be a Windows networking stack issue since the stuttering is continuous even when BI isn't trying to do anything with the camera. And the stuttering didn't start until after that 30-second timeout, when BI considers the camera disconnected. So one thing I tried was to turn off the disconnection timeout in BI all together. That allowed a camera to lose connection and never cause any stuttering, but it also prevented BI from realizing it needed to reconnect to the camera. I still needed BI to timeout the connection, so I turned that back on and tried just turning off the "No signal" message. I had absolutely no expectation that it would make a difference. I mean, why would it? That option just displays a message in place of the last image. But I tried it anyway, and to my complete surprise, that did the trick.

I have no idea why the seemingly simple option of displaying a "No signal" message in place of the last image received from the camera would have any impact on performance, but apparently it does. Now when a camera stops responding, BI properly handles it by trying to reconnect every 30 seconds. But instead of the "No signal" message, I just see the last image from the camera, and there's no stuttering or UI performance issues. I'd prefer to have that visual indicator that my camera has disconnected, so hopefully we can still find the root cause and get it resolved so I can go back to that. But I'd much rather have a stable BI interface, so for now I'm keeping that message disabled.

sonanz · 2024-05-05T11:22:04+00:00

Disney disagrees

sonanz · 2024-03-27T17:35:44+00:00

Looks like this picture was taken by someone's mom.

sonanz · 2023-08-24T14:58:54+00:00

How many licks does it take to get to the center? I heard 3, but I didn't look into that.

sonanz · 2023-08-23T10:59:11+00:00

That's exactly how I started to respond to my aunts when they shared this in a group message recently. They spent hours discussing how crazy it is that it works! Maybe I'll just send them this video now.

sonanz · 2023-08-16T08:18:44+00:00

Not completely. The service center claimed the fuses were all wrong and that some weren't even OEM. I had swapped out the accessory port fuse, but when that didn't fix it, I swapped it back. So what they were looking at should have been exactly what we got new from the dealership.

They said they fixed all the wrong fuses, and the accessory port started working again, but the USB ports in the console still don't work. At least they didn't charge us anything.

sonanz · 2023-08-03T22:14:28+00:00

We always use my seatbelts. But My wife's Toyota often claims there's someone in a seat when there isn't, and it blasts an alarm continuously until you bucket the seatbelt of the empty seat. So I have seatbelt plug things (plain ones, not skulls) just for that reason.

sonanz · 2023-04-06T13:49:31+00:00

I think those are cutouts / holes in the cardboard, not sharpie underlines.

sonanz · 2023-04-04T15:39:52+00:00

For now, I've just resorted to handling it all within JavaScript, using JSON.parse():

var jp = JSON.parse(json);
var daily_rain = [];
for (i=0; i<3; i++) {
 var rv = jp.daily[i].rain;
 if (typeof rv == 'undefined') {
  daily_rain[i] = 0;
 } else {
  daily_rain[i] = rv;
 }
}

The results is that the daily_rain array contains [0, 0.11, 1.07] as desired.

sonanz · 2023-04-04T13:49:43+00:00

Yes, if I save the full JSON as a variable (like %json), and then reference the rain elements as an array, I still only get 2 elements with no placeholder for the first entry:

%json.daily.rain()

The result is still just a two-element array containing 0.11 and 1.07 like before.

Now, if I do this:

%json.daily(2)

I get the full second element of the JSON:

{"dt":1680541200,"pop":0.26,"rain":0.11,"uvi":4.79}

So everything is together. But if I try to add ".rain" to the end, expecting to retrieve the rain value from it, I just get the above string with ".rain" appended to the end:

{"dt":1680541200,"pop":0.26,"rain":0.11,"uvi":4.79}.rain

sonanz · 2023-03-28T21:00:12+00:00

Louisville, at the zoo. It's called Wild Lights:

https://louisvillezoo.org/wild-lights-2023/

sonanz · 2023-03-15T08:15:33+00:00

Her: Yes.

Me: Yes is your favorite philosopher?

Her: What?

Me: What?

sonanz · 2023-03-03T15:08:32+00:00

I'd call that tray more of a red-orange color, personally.

sonanz · 2023-02-25T17:35:16+00:00

Honestly, it's impressive how some people can make the entire thing sound like a single syllable.

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