Specifications

Direct image, video and command requests

In addition to serving HTML pages, Blue Iris can also act as a "video server." There are a

number of methods for retrieving images and video from the Blue Iris web server for use on

mobile devices, converting a USB camera into a web camera, or for any other purpose. Here

are the paths to these methods:

/image/{cam-short-name}?q=50&s=80

A single JPEG image from a specific camera or

group, with optional quality (q) and scale (s)

parameters.

Quality is a percentage from 1-

100,

and scale may be any number >0.

/image/{cam-short-name}?h=100

You may also specify a specific height (h) or

width (w) instead of scale.

/mjpg/{cam-short-name}/video.mjpg

An M-JPEG stream. This stream is compatible

with Blue Iris's "MJPEG stream request."

/file/clips/{filename}&mode=jpeg&speed=100

An M-JPEG stream of a clip from your New clips

folder.

You may include additional subdirectory

names in the filename.

The speed parameter is

optional, a percentage of normal playback

speed.

/thumbs/{filename}

A thumbnail image from a specific file in the

New clips folder.

/alerts/{filename}

A JPEG image from the Alerts folder.

/admin?profile=x

Temporarily change the active profile to x. Use

-1 to toggle the lock status.

/admin?camera=x&trigger

Trigger camera x (short name)

/admin?signal=x

Changes the traffic signal state and returns the

current state.

x=0 for red, x=1 for green, x=2 for

yellow.

This requires admin authentication.

/audio/{cam-short-name}/temp.wav

Pull a raw audio stream (MIME type audio/x-

wav).