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Thank you - EA5's with C4 3.0 and yes have about 8 T3's. Thank you for the direction of the navigation agent. Will try that tonight.

Hi all, Been digging around with the programming a bit and found a clunky way to do this but was wondering what all you experts do for this. When someone rings my door bell wanted to open the navigator (OSD) with the camera. Lets leave out that I have a DS2 for now....

I actually didnt think of that im a dumb a$$ thank you! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Hi all, Trying to figure out of there is a way one can sort the cameras on the navigators. Reason added cameras and been testing but as I get the camera feeds as close to possible the way they show in the navigators is all wrong i.e. cam1 and cam2 cover left and right of a area but the one is first and the other is last on the navigators which means I have to scroll would like to bring cam1 and cam2 on the same line i.e. First and second.

@dcovach My opinion is BI is used by million of users. I think if C4 is up to it we should work with them to improve the lacking ( don’t want to use poor as I want to be positive here), implementation of cameras in the navigators. I feel that we have done every bit of testing possible on the client. It would really need C4 to step in now and help us. I know for one I would be up to supplying tech support with whatever logs etc they need. @LollerAgent indeed BI can expose any resolution that the camera can support and that the client (your interface) can view. My cameras I can use VLC or a browser to view full 2868 x 1xxx ( cant remember the second number). The image is crystal clear and the streaming it perfect from BI. @dirtyceo I honestly do not think this is a BI issue as all other interfaces work. Chasing other interfaces will yield the same result.

Ok so done extensive testing. BlueIris: Works on all interfaces with all links that are applicable i.e. Snapshot, MJPEG, H264 and cameras that support H265 i.e. VLC i.e. Link in any browser ispy (like Blue Iris) Works perfectly on all the interfaces as above (BI) Doesn't work at all generic driver Doesn't work of course in BI driver. Control4: The Generic driver - doesn't work. However I think its an issue of how the driver builds the URL The BlueIris driver - Works as we have been describing. My View: It is a driver issue Why It is either mincing up the URL or using the wrong URL Due to updates to Bl If all other interfaces work this points to BI. Unless we get a new driver that is well built and we can specify the URL we want to use and all it does is: Uses the interface to specify the ip, port username and password. Then allows us to specify which link for which type of view Then doesnt mash up the URL Shows us the URL it is creating (not like the BI driver - have NO idea why they encrypted the URL, this would of helped us trouble shoot better) Any dealer know the driver manufacture maybe he can update and unlock those fields Supports all the protocols - Snapshot url (then you could use these as well in the notification driver, the BI driver does not expose this) MJPEG H264 H265 (for cameras or BI) that supports this. For reference there is the URL's that I managed to get that the blueiris driver uses:

The question is for the 240v guys do they have a version for that to

Maybe a simple question but is there a variable that one can use to get specific times? What I am trying to do is run a specific announcement based on a door opening (contact) but only between specific times?

I have the "Attach Snapshot from a camera enabled" and it works well but there two questions In iOS the notification does pop up in the notification menu, if you select it, it opens up C4 iOS app but doesn't show anything.... was wondering if it was suppose to. I wanted to check what the camera requires to popup in the notification menu for snapshot URL. I have four out of 12 cameras that have this option so I was wondering what the differentiation was The cameras that do is Wyze with @alanchow The cameras with the BlueIris driver, these don't show up for a snapshot URL in the notfications selection The snapshot url in the test works. Not sure if there was suppose to be a variable exposed so the notfications could use it or not.

I went back to announcement and tried again and then it worked .... When I see the behavior above is if I try "execute" the announcement to many times after another. I don't just do this for fun I do it as I am adjusting sound etc and testing.

Ok SCP is open on the controller, interesting on /mnt/mediashare/announcements the files are all there, so not to sure what the controller is doing with that error message.

OK cool let me try and open a SCP or SFTP connection to it. I am sure there is something available as you can SSH to it

Thanks for the reply. Yes: OS - Windows 10 C4 - 3.0 I will go check that setting out (think I have that enabled for my other linux environments but let me go check that) The other option is I could (if the port is open) SCP or SFTP onto the control4 controller and upload the file just wouldn't know where to and if it would replicate to the other controllers on the network. Thank you.

Hi all, Wanted to setup announcements in my project. It is pretty simple to set these up. The one thing that always fails is if I try add a audio file to the announcement. I get an error saying the the file cannot be is not available (see pic below). What I have tried: I have removed and re-added the announcements agent This has worked now once or twice when I have tested it. However I go and change something like the volume level etc then execute then I get the error. Uhhh but the audio file was there a while ago? Would appreciate the help - system is on 3.0. Not to sure if this is a Windows and C4 issue with SMB or if this is some other issue?

Ok quick feedback Unifi Protect (their NVR) only works with Unifi camera's not surprised but never set it up so thought I would test it. Going to download ispy (I have a license for it bought it a while ago) will add just one camera for testing purposes. @dcovach thank you for the link downloaded and will add to the tests

Thank you will do the testing today and revert. Just a note while we trouble shooting. My wyze cameras with the dfang custom firmware work perfectly. The driver (from chowmain) talk directly to the cam stream not via BI. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I am starting to think its got to do with the following, unfortunately its something C4 either has to advise or fix. Advise: how each navigator works or what stream it needs. So driver vendors can adapt or change drivers. Fix: It seems like different OS have different requirements and could be how they interpret streams. Example: iOS all works as expected. Same config on Android we experience the issue we currently have. Given the T3s are just a distro of Android its having the same issue. If you remove all the different factors tested on Android devices: Multiple drivers tested - same result Configs on BI almost all exhausted - same result Some OS work - iOS for example ( I am running the beta) Blueiris mobile app works as expected Blueiris web works as expected Blueiris app works as expected So unless we figure something out which unfortunately I doubt given the type of issue, I would hope C4 will sort this out. I have the latest unifi NVR going to add a stream or two there and test. I cant find the generic camera driver can anyone post which one it is? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Ok to get around the GStreamer issue (I had the same issue and posted the issue and fix two day ago) go to BI settings for BI not for a camera. Then go to users tab and enable the anonymous account. While I hate doing this with a passion it worked. Looks like it needs it and all the tests pass:) I still get static full pics on Android. Going to poke around now

Ok found the Android beta installed C4 3.0 beta for Android. Tested it - same issue. Weird it works on iOS beta and not on Android Beta... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Well as per above I just noticed the same outcome as dirtyceo. Now I am running the C4 3.0 beta for the iOS devices .... maybe they fixed it in the beta? Someone did say the Android version is freely available but could t remember where otherwise I would install it and see if it is something they fixed. The dfang driver works on all platforms ios C4 beta as well as stick c4 3.0 for Android Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Well here is something interesting not to sure if this is your situation or not. I use iOS alot in the house and this works in the scenario we discussing. Gave my domestic worker a samsung galaxy s3 (tablet) I tried it out now .... guess what confirm the images in “full view” are static .... on my iOS devices they fluid as per expectation. Now the kicker went to check my T3 devices and they static in full view to never noticed as I re did my BI server last week. It is def BI driver this is why. I have four Wyze cameras I just bought. I am using Alans Dfang / wyze driver. This stream works on all os’s and devices. These 4 cams don’t go through BI at the moment. Which narrows it down to two things either BI itself or the BI driver. Going to do some more testing tonight as now you provoked my OCD Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Can you post the driver info right click on driver in composer, info select all or ctl click on each line. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Can you check on blueiris what frame rate you have specified in the camera options (the actual camera) I have 30fps on mine as they support that. I do get 1sec refresh so it def works. Funny enough I get static images on the thumbnails. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

That would have to be a custom driver to be able to do that. Not sure if there is one available. Also bot sure in the programming structure of the LUA libs that C4 have if it has support for that.... would need someone from C4 to advise or a vendor that has made the driver.

Just testing for you - the H264 stream definitely works with VLC as described above: http://<IP_ADDRESS>:<Port>/h264/{cam-short-name - THIS is eg cam1, cam2}/temp.m The issue I have with the BlueIris driver is it encrypts the URL being used I don't know why since you can get the URL's from the documentation. There use to be a camera driver that allowed you to enter your own URL. Just can't remember what it was or where I put it Here is a screen shot of the details with the url above (the blurred part I did its not the camera ) The reason I asked about: Is I haven't got that to work either in terms of the thumb nails updating live. It takes a snapshot and only shows that. Which is frustrating as I want to see what is going on then click into that camera.