Blue Iris

Perspective Software

About this app

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.x installed and running on a Windows PC. Instructions for connecting this app to the PC software are found in the Networking topic 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.

Key features include:

- Manage multiple Blue Iris installations
- Control the traffic signal icon, schedule and profile selection
- Receive Android push 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
- Selectively delete recordings from the Blue Iris PC
- Remote control DIO output signals on compatible devices

Ratings and reviews

Extremely far behind pretty much every competitor. Suffers greatly when resuming from being in the background to the point of having to close and re-open to get back into video. It just seems like very little care was out into the app and it was designed for minimal functionality and/or speed.

Notification sound is broken with the recent update. It constantly defaults to an in app sound regardless of what you set it too. 1st time I've experienced this with an app an it extremely annoying especially since my dog has been trained to react to a certain blue iris notification sound. Edit: sound fixed on the latest update. Back to 5 stars. 5/17/22 - it's bad again for all the same reasons people have already noted.

Horrible android app. Windows program is great. The fact that the developer is charging up front with no free trial is your WARNING sign. Navigation is broken, clip playback is buggy, user interface is terrible. Buyer Beware. I paid $10 to save time and effort on building my own remote solution. I am forced to additionally spend time + effort to build my own solution anyway. Booooo!

What’s new

Background audio fix