Combine Camera Feeds?

merkaba

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Hello,

I am wondering if there is a way to take two or more different cameras feeds (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) and combine them to make a single camera feed in Blue Iris? I have 3 areas of my home that are covered by cameras, and I'm trying to figure out how to make a view that shows those 3 areas as a single feed instead of having 10+ cameras just showing their own. Sort of like making my own version of a DH-IPC-PFW8601N-H-A180 type camera.
 
Groups, on the web you get a single stream when viewing a group.
Or is your wish to store it as a single stream? If so, then why?
 
You can view a group of cams in UI3 as follows:

Assign the desired cams to a specific group. In my example, I attached them to "group1".
Insure that webcasting is enabled for that group.

Open your browser to:
Code:
http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/ui3.htm?group=groupname

Substitute the name of YOUR newly created group in place of the above "groupname".

Example:
Code:
http://192.168.1.239:81/ui3.htm?group=group1
or
http://BI-Server-DDNS-Hostname:81/ui3.htm?group=group1

Once logged into UI3 and viewing the group, press <Control> plus tilde (~) at the same time to view the group in full-screen mode with no clip thumbnails, no controls, etc....just the group.

Press <Control> plus tilde (~) again to show, clips, controls, etc.

==OR=

Create the group as above but instead of using UI3, you can stream MJPG from Blue Iris using this URL in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox:
Code:
http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/mjpg/group1/video.mjpg
 
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You can view a group of cams in UI3 as follows:

Assign the desired cams to a specific group. In my example, I attached them to "group1".
Insure that webcasting is enabled for that group.

Open your browser to:
Code:
http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/ui3.htm?group=groupname

Substitute the name of YOUR newly created group in place of the above "groupname".

Example:
Code:
http://192.168.1.239:81/ui3.htm?group=group1
or
http://BI-Server-DDNS-Hostname:81/ui3.htm?group=group1

Once logged into UI3 and viewing the group, press <Control> plus tilde (~) at the same time to view the group in full-screen mode with no clip thumbnails, no controls, etc....just the group.

Press <Control> plus tilde (~) again to show, clips, controls, etc.

==OR=

Create the group as above but instead of using UI3, you can stream MJPG from Blue Iris using this URL in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox:
Code:
http://BI-Server-IP:BI-Server-Port/mjpg/group1/video.mjpg

Thanks a lot for the detail. I appreciate it. I have one more question...

Is there a way to view multiple groups in a single view?
 
Groups, on the web you get a single stream when viewing a group.
Or is your wish to store it as a single stream? If so, then why?

I'm not looking fo them to be in a single stream, just trying to figure out if i can setup a view with multiple groups in it instead of all individual single streams. I'm assuming I can't.
 
I'm not looking fo them to be in a single stream, just trying to figure out if i can setup a view with multiple groups in it instead of all individual single streams. I'm assuming I can't.
Yes, you can.
See the first half of my post #3 above (unless I have totally misunderstood what you're asking).
 
A camera can be in as many groups as you would need.
For example, I may have a birdfeeder group that has 3 cameras; 1)hummingbird feeder 2)suet feeder & 3)seed feeder. I also may have a backyard group that has 4 cameras; 1)seed feeder 2)yard left 3)yard right & 4)back side. I also may have a play area group that has 9 cameras; 1)yard left 2)yard right 3)back side 4)front lawn 5)driveway east 6)driveway west 7)garage workbench 8)garage door & 9)game room. Then I also may have an Outside group that has every camera that is outside of the house and an Inside group that has every camera inside the house. and so on.
 
Ah, yea. I'm an idiot. I didn't realize that the cameras could be in multiple groups. I was looking to combine my "Driveway" group and my "Front Yard" group into a single view. I think this now solves my problem. Thank you.
 
@merkaba ,

I had to run 45 miles each way to adjacent town to take elderly person to doctor, just got back but wanted to share a screenshot of the UI3, a stream of a group made up of 2 cams, at full screen (CNTRL ~) :

UI3-group1_sm.jpg
 
You can also load an mjpeg or H.264 stream from Blue Iris's own web server as its own camera. It is super inefficient but it is nonetheless a way to combine multiple cameras into one for recording purposes.
 
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You can also load an mjpeg or H.264 stream from Blue Iris's own web server as its own camera. It is super inefficient but it is nonetheless a way to combine multiple cameras into one for recording purposes.
Would that be like I suggested in the last part of my post #3 where you stream a pre-defined group from the BI server BUT you're saying bring it back into BI as a camera?

EDIT: Yep, I just did it as you said...cool!

group_MJPG-stream.jpg

group-stream.jpg
 
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Is there a way to arrange the camera feeds in a particular order so the single stream, say, shows the outside in a sequential order?

Edit->

Answered my question. Sort of. I was having a problem in that one camera wouldn’t show in UI3 unless I put in between 2 larger framed cameras. The camera in question is flipped 90 degrees to get a narrower FOV. If this camera was at either extreme left or right, it wouldn’t show in UI3.

By adding all cameras to a group I was able to rearrange this camera in BI and now it shows in UI3.

Camera in question:

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Other cameras as an example:

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