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• The Options page also has a new button to export or backup your entire Blue Iris
configuration from the registry.
• The Trim (See 10.) feature now allows you to specify MP4 format with H.264 encoding.
• You may specify a volume setting (1-100) for sound alerts (See 7.5).
• A potential pitfall for H.264 decoder instability with some IP cameras has been resolved.
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• Two new Options pages have been added for Mobile Devices and Digital I/O.
• From the Options/Digital I/O (See 11.) page you may now enable serial port
communication with the Arduino UNO open-source project board. This is a very
inexpensive device available at electronics hobby shops or online via eBay. Although
less expensive, configuration of this device will not be as simple as the Sealevel
board. 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
the Alerts tab. 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 motion detector.
• A Blue Iris iOS client is under development. When this app is released next month, and
you use it to connect to your Blue Iris server, an entry for each device will appear on the
Options/Mobile devices
(See 11.) page. In addition to tracking mobile device client
connections, this page will allow you to "pair" with each device, in order to allow your
Blue Iris to send "push notifications" to these devices. Following the release of the iOS
client, work will begin on an Android version. Client apps are not planned for other
devices at this time.
• On the Alerts page, support for the IM alert has been discontinued. This alert relied
upon outdated technology. It has however been replaced by the Mobile device push
notification option.
• Development has begun on the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) interface. (See
14.) This HTTP-based interface will provide the basis for a very powerful set of remote
administration capabilities which will be leveraged first by the upcoming mobile device
clients before then being applied to the basic web browser-based access pages.
• A new and long-overdue FAQ page (See 13.) has been started to address the most
commonly asked support questions.
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• ActiveX version 1.0.3.4 allows the ability to select between 3 preconfigured streaming
configurations for varying connection speeds. Right-click on the window to select. On