Post "Signal to Return at Sunrise" image

[Phlerb]

Good day!

I am not sure this can be done within BI, but I can hope.

I am using the Blue Iris Tools to upload an image to my Weather Webserver as a 5 minute image, which is then being pulled by Weather underground. I would like to upload the normal image during the day, and then upload a 2nd image with a note stating it would show normal captures at sunrise, but still show the current Wx overlay...

I was thinking a fake camera that just uses a jpeg image instead of a camera image, and then BIT will overlay the current conditions, and it will then upload to the website. I would use profiles and schedules to have the 'day camera' upload during the day, and the 'night/fake' on upload at night the static image.

Can this be done?

Thanks
Phil

 

[bp2008]

Yes, it sounds do-able exactly as you describe.

 

[Phlerb]

But how do I set up a fake camera, or a new camera 'Night' as a static image (jpg)

 

[bp2008]

Put your static jpeg image in Blue Iris' www folder, which will cause Blue Iris to host that jpeg with its web server. Then create a new camera, and configure it as:

Make/model: JPEG/GIF/etc. image requests
IP or host name: localhost
HTTP port: whatever your Blue Iris web server is listening on.
Path: /image.jpg

Then set the frame rate really low, like 1 FPS or less, so you don't waste unnecessary CPU cycles refreshing the image too often.

 

[Phlerb]

I was able to find this post that explained another way to do it

http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php?198-Blue-Iris-Tools-Weather-Overlay-Watchdog-amp-more!&p=12963&viewfull=1#post12963

Thanks bp2008!

 

[bp2008]

Screen capturing is far less efficient, and much easier to accidentally break