Specifications

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Arduino

The Arduino UNO is an open-source project board, available very inexpensively at electronics

hobby shops or online via eBay. The UNO must actually itself be programmed to respond to

data it receives via the serial port from Blue Iris. When an alert is triggered, Blue Iris will send

a single byte of data to the UNO, an ASCII number 0-7 representing the output number

specified on a camera's Alerts tab

(See 7.5). Blue Iris also monitors for incoming serial data,

and interprets each incoming byte as the 8-bits representing digital input numbers 0-7, which

may be used to

trigger the camera (See 7.3).

Sealevel Systems

The Sealevel SeaDAC Lite (P/N 8112 and similar), although more expensive than the UNO,

provides a more turn-key solution. You may simply connect your digital inputs and outputs;

there's no project-board programming involved.

Schedule

Beginning with version 3.0, you may now set a global schedule. Previously, each camera

maintained its own schedule; however you may still override this global schedule on a per-

camera basis.