Blue Iris Blue Bar at Bottom of Screen

This app is a CLIENT for the Blue Iris Windows PC software. In order to make use of this app, you must have Blue Iris version 5 installed and running on a Windows PC or VM. Instructions for connecting this app to the PC software are found in the Remote Access chapter of its Help file.

This app provides a single point of contact to your home camera network. There is no need to insecurely open individual cameras to the Internet. This app connects using a secure and session-based protocol--no passwords are transmitted in plain text.

Remote access does require router configuration or NGROK, which you can test without the app by using Safari. You should see your Blue Iris login page.

Key features include:

- Manage multiple Blue Iris installations
- Geofencing: set status, send alerts, and more in response to device location *
- Control the shield icon, schedule and profile selection
- Receive iOS push notification alerts when a Blue Iris camera is triggered or there is a critical status message
- Fast H.264 streaming
- Control PTZ, IR and more for any camera that's also controllable at the Blue Iris PC
- Listen to and talk to any camera that's also supported at the Blue Iris PC
- Navigate cameras by tapping and swiping
- Review recordings as stored on the Blue Iris PC, up to 64x speed
- Download recorded video from the Blue Iris PC to the iOS device
- Selectively delete recordings from the Blue Iris PC
- Broadcast live video from the iOS device directly into a Blue Iris PC camera window
- Remote control DIO output signals on compatible devices
- Baby monitor functionality: continue to listen to audio with app closed or device in standby **

* Note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
** Note that continued use of audio streaming running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

What's New

Jun 7, 2022

Version 2.03.03

Numerous usability and stability enhancements

Ratings and Reviews

Great app

If you have a blue iris server this app is a gem. Work flawlessly. The only thing not going for it is the design, let's say it could improve a lot. Great work!

Worth A Look

Bought the app on a whim and was able to get it working on the first try. I was pleasantly surprised by the functionality and glad I could access all my cameras including PTZ and two-way audio. If you're on the fence, I would recommend taking the plunge. The $13.99 price tag is worth it in my opinion.

Broken again

This update breaks the live Camera tab in the app (on iphone SE at least, maybe other devices). The 'new' PTZ hide feature puts a wide bar right over top of the controls making it impossible to use them anymore. There also seems to be little point to this feature as, at least on the several devices I use the app on (some landscape permanently mounted), that touching the bar doesn't create any more screen space to make the image any bigger, it just visually removes the controls, and other devices the bar/ feature doesn't even appear. Which also reminds me that, after a really long time since last round of updates, another thing previously broken still has yet to be fixed, that is when the app starts (on iPad landscape), the last live image view no longer opens full screen automatically, you have to go and manually do that now each time the app starts or restarts. And also, if the app has a problem communicating, and the live view returns, it returns with a bar overlapping the bottom of the live full screen that requires the app to be shut down and restarted to regain a normal full screen landscape camera view without that bar obstructing the image. These last two things broken during previous updates make using an iPad permanently mounted in landscape as a constant full screen live camera view, almost useless now ( where it worked wonderfully before) as it frequently requires attention to manually put it back to a normal full screen view. It seems it is often two steps forward and three steps backwards with this app; new features are nice, but breaking basic and essential features is not a suitable trade off, esp when they never get fixed, or only partly fixed months later. Blue Iris has an amazing design as a system as a whole, far better than any other, but the constant software problems, mostly related to existing things being constantly broken during very frequent updates (last 'stable' version caused more problems than any other update, making cameras suddenly frequently go offline), makes the system rather unreliable on and off, and has failed me multiple times when it was truly needed.

And recently, I now get spammed every single day on my phone about updating the main software to a version that I've already told the software I do not want, and I can't turn off alerts else I will also loose the cones that really matter.

App Privacy

The developer, Ken Pletzer, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

Seller

Ken Pletzer

Size

36.5 MB

Category

Utilities

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Age Rating

4+

Copyright

© 2021 Perspective Software, All Rights Reserved

Price

$13.99

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Supports

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  Family Sharing

  Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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Source: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/blue-iris/id585350145

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