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

Love this app, works great! Only suggestion would be in camera page to be able to turn off groups, cameras and filter at the top to just show the cameras only. One other minor issue, when reviewing recordings, when you click last recording it plays fine, when you click left to go to next oldest recording that works fine, but you cannot then go back to latest recording. Thanks!

Learning curve is a challenge but that's the nature of the beast. I've been using this software for years and I still learn something new occasionally. Blue Iris works well with Dahua IP wired cameras. I would recommend installing this on a desktop computer first before adding any mobile clients and trying to learn that as well. Definitely use purple hard drives designed for surveillance 1 to 2 terabyte for sure.

Previous app had issues but was worlds better. Deleting and resetting alerts is a hit or a miss. Larger fonts and icons forces me to scroll to pause cameras. Decreased the size of the clip window is not good. I pay only to help the developer, but since then version 5 took forever to install properly. I am bummed. Update: Dark mode much better, reset alerts now working. Thanks for the updates.

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