Specifications

Select the Automatically play live audio on selected camera option to hear your live camera

audio whenever the camera is selected. A camera is selected by clicking on its video. To

unselect all cameras, click anywhere outside of a camera's video window. Your camera's audio

must be supported by Blue Iris, and audio streaming must be enabled on the camera's

Audio

tab (See 7.2).

If you have more than one camera, use the Auto-cycle camera view in full-screen video mode

option to perform a "patrol" function. To activate this feature, enable the option, then go into

full-screen video mode by either using the icon at the top-right of the Cameras window, or

right-clicking anywhere in the Cameras window and selecting the Full-screen video

command. Finally, a camera must be selected to start the patrol. Each camera will be selected

and shown as a full-screen window in sequence. If all cameras are unselected, or you select a

camera with its own desktop window, the patrol is discontinued. Use the Esc key to exit full-

screen video.

There is an option on each camera's Trigger profiles page (See 7.3) to "restore window when

triggered." This is used to un-minimize either the camera window or the application window

when motion is detected. However, if the window is already open, but behind other windows,

you may also want to bring it to the foreground. Check the Force window to foreground

option to enable this functionality.

You may choose to Limit the preview rate for live video in order to ease demands on your CPU

and video card. If you are running as a service, this setting may have little effect, as the

preview rate is already limited by the service-console process memory sharing throughput.

You may choose to Limit the manual recording time to a specific number of seconds. When

you use the toolbar icon to begin a manual recording, it will automatically stop.

You may choose how double-clicks within camera windows are handled. The default is to

open the camera in full-screen mode. Instead, you may choose to open the camera in a

desktop window or to open its properties window.

Keyboard shortcuts

This page allows you to assign Blue Iris functions to key strokes of your choosing.