Thanks, Lou. Unless I'm not digging deep enough, this has the same issue that I have with the VB program I wrote: dealing with the password. I want something where I don't have to enter a password it each time I kick off the program without committing the security sin of saving it.

Does anyone know of an easy, local application what will check that the Blue Iris web server (or any web server, for that matter) is running? There have been several incidents where the computer I have BI running on has gone down, and since I don't routinely check that device, it can be down for a w...