Sending a "Push Notification" with a picture only, no video clip?

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I am able to receive the notification on my Android phone, but have no need for the video that accomplices the alert, just a photo of the trigger is sufficient.

How would I do this?
 
R L said:
I am able to receive the notification on my Android phone, but have no need for the video that accomplices the alert, just a photo of the trigger is sufficient.

How would I do this?
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Assuming you have already configured an outgoing SMTP server correctly, you should be able to attach an image to an SMS text or email message and send it to your phone. This is what I did to get a picture of what caused the trigger. There will be some occasions when the image is not good enough and I would need to follow-up by looking at the video.

It doesn't answer your question directly but I don't think you could attach an image to a "push notification" as far as I can tell.
 
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R L said:
I am able to receive the notification on my Android phone, but have no need for the video that accomplices the alert, just a photo of the trigger is sufficient.

How would I do this?
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No video gets pushed to your phone
 
fenderman said:
The blueiris mobile app will display an alert image when a push notification comes in.
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Thanks Fenderman. That's good to know. I didn't know that Blue Iris supports alert image preview with push notification. I am using OpenVPN on iOS 11.3.1 but I don't think that should matter so I have to do some troubleshooting now.

RL, you may want to check the following thread discussing the "no image preview push notification" issue that you are experiencing.
Version 4.5.8.5
 
I am now able to get alert image preview with push notification. The solution is probably obvious to the experienced Blue Iris users but I am going to explain what I did so others in similar situation may benefit (or correct me if I'm wrong).

Since I am using OpenVPN, I didn't forward any ports so the Blue Iris server is not accessible via the Internet (external IP). However, in the Options > Web server tab, the checkbox "Refresh external IP at startup and again every 30 min" was checked (probably by default?). I unchecked it and replaced the WAN IP address field with my Blue Iris PC LAN IP address. On the Blue Iris mobile app, I also ensure that the WAN IP is the same as LAN IP address. It appears that Blue Iris uses WAN IP address to retrieve the image preview for push notifications since these are the only steps I did. Prior to these steps, I was getting push notifications without any images.
 
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svc said:
I am now able to get alert image preview with push notification. The solution is probably obvious to the experienced Blue Iris users but I am going to explain what I did so others in similar situation may benefit (or correct me if I'm wrong).

Since I am using OpenVPN, I didn't forward any ports so the Blue Iris server is not accessible via the Internet (external IP). However, in the Options > Web server tab, the checkbox "Refresh external IP at startup and again every 30 min" was checked (probably by default?). I unchecked it and replaced the WAN IP address field with my Blue Iris PC LAN IP address. On the Blue Iris mobile app, I also ensure that the WAN IP is the same as LAN IP address. It appears that Blue Iris uses WAN IP address to retrieve the image preview for push notifications since these are the only steps I did. Prior to these steps, I was getting push notifications without any images.
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Awesome. I already had the rechek ip unticked as using openvpn for security. I also use stunnel on port 443 and this presented an additonal challenge with a surprise bug.

BI external address ignores the port for some reason. Even tho it says https at the start it put :80 on the end of the address, remove it and save and the damn :80 is back. I put :443 on the end of the external address (local ip actually...) and voila in business now. Have image in my push notification.

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Thanks for heads up that this was the problem
 
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Cbang000 said:
Hey, I am sorry if I missed the answer for this. Is there an option to link the video clip associated with the text/email alert that would viewable via ui3?
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Please clarify. Do you want a link embeded in the email/text that would bring up UI3 and the clip? if so then no.
 
Hi Fenderman, The above would be the ultimate goal, but maybe an embedded link to UI3 itself, or a way to launch the app from the notification. It wouldn't have to directly link to the video. Thanks for your time.

~Christian
 
Hi Fenderman, The above would be the ultimate goal, but maybe an embedded link to UI3 itself, or a way to launch the app from the notification. It wouldn't have to directly link to the video. Thanks for your time.

~Christian
 
Cbang000 said:
Hi Fenderman, The above would be the ultimate goal, but maybe an embedded link to UI3 itself, or a way to launch the app from the notification. It wouldn't have to directly link to the video. Thanks for your time.

~Christian
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You Can launch the mobile app from the push notifications. They are faster than email and text.
 
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