Specifications

There are profile buttons at the top of the Blue Iris window which show the current global

schedule profile. If you press any of these buttons, it overrides BOTH the global schedule as

well as the individual camera schedules for all cameras. Press the button once to temporarily

force a particular profile, or press it twice to hold the profile indefinitely.

Record video

For each profile, you may choose how video will be recorded. You may choose from:

When triggered. Select if you want to record only when the camera is triggered by motion or

another source.

Continuously. Select to record non-stop, which is desirable in some surveillance situations.

Only manually. Select if you do not want Blue Iris to record video unless you specifically

request it using the toolbar

(See 4.) icon.

Periodically (Every X minutes for Y seconds). Use this option to create evenly spaced

recordings of a specific duration. If you specify a small duration (such as 0.1 seconds), the net

effect is similar to that of the JPEG periodic recording, except you have the option of

combining these images into a larger movie file by using the Combine or cut each option. Blue

Iris will align the recording times if the period evenly divides a day. For example, if you select

to record every 15 minutes, recordings will occur on the hour, and :15, :30 and :45 minutes

past the hour.

Snapshots

The option to Create an Alerts folder image when triggered will save a JPEG snapshot to the

Alerts folder whenever the camera is triggered. If a video is open for recording at that time, an

offset into the file is also noted so that when this image is later viewed, it will take you directly

to the point of interest in the video. These are the images that will appear in the mobile client

Alerts list.

In addition to video clips and Alert images, there's also an option to Create a New folder

snapshot on a timed basis. This will simply periodically save a still JPEG image to your New

clips folder. This option is recommended for compatibility purposes only--it is recommended

that you use the Video recording options instead in order to not overwhelm your system with

hundreds or thousands of individual files to manage.

File options