How do I view my setup schedule times?
How do I view my setup schedule times?
A couple years ago, I set up profiles and schedules because I wanted to send a critical alert during nighttime hours, rather than just a regular sms text. This has been working great. However, I now want to adjust the nighttime hours, and I am very confused. When i first go into the schedules tab, the "select a profile to draw" is set to active, which should show all times for every day in the graph, but it appears to be showing the days/times I set for the night profile. How can I view the times that I previously set for my Nighttime profile? When I go into "schedules" and change the "Select a profile to draw" dropdown from "Active" to "nighttime", I don't see the graph with days and hours change at all, it never changes no matter what profiles for I select. It is as if, you can only set the schedule but NOT view any profiles schedule after the fact. What a I missing?
Re: How do I view my setup schedule times?
An individual camera schedule can behave differently than the Global system schedule. It would be helpful to know which one is being discussed to better address the subject.
Re: How do I view my setup schedule times?
Thank you for the reply. Maybe it is just my ignorance on how profiles/schedules work. I will try and explain what I am expecting along with screenshots. I am using the "schedules" at the BI level and NOT a specific camera settings. Assuming I know how to set up a cameral non critical and critical alert, here is how I am setting up profiles and schedules and what I am seeing. This is Blue Iris 5.8.0.14 on a demo because I am not at home right now to demonstrate my actual BI settings. I am sure it is somethin simple, and I will be embarrassed when my head is clear.
Clicked the profiles tab and renamed profile 1 to "Active Day" and profile 3 to "Night" screenshot 1
Clicked the "Schedule" tab at the general application level Schedule is all green and set to Profile 1 "Active day" Screenshot 2
Selected profile 3 "Night" from the "Select a profile to draw" dropdown
I then proceeded to draw the schedule in two blocks for profile 3 "night" as 12:01 to 6:00:00 AM and 06:00:00 PM to 11:59:00 PM This is screenshot 3
I then saved my schedule changes
I then went back into the Schedule and profile 1 "Active Day" was selected in the dropdown listbox however the graphical display was showing the same schedule that I set for profile 3 "Night".
I then selected ANY AND ALL profiles from the "Select a profile to draw" and it did not matter, they all showed the same schedule which is what I only set for profile 3.
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Re: How do I view my setup schedule times?
I found another post on some other post on ipcamtalk, and I think I figured out where I went wrong. I was assuming you could select a profile, view its schedule and then change that profiles schedule. Well it is now clear to me(I think), that the schedule graph that shows the 7 days of the week(on the left) and time(on the right) is a cumulation of ALL PROFILES, and will show you all of the start and stop times of when profile is active. That was not that clear to me because I only had one profile set up other than active. Now I know, maybe someone can confirm that for me. It is not the way I would design it, as if you had profiles set up for all of the profiles(7), that screen gets very cluttered and very hard to get the handle on what it is you want to change. That plus I am color blind and colors are hard for me at times, I will get over that.
Re: How do I view my setup schedule times?
I'm not experienced with the global scheduling beyond what seems to be fairly straightforward functionality -- problem being, there's A LOT OF IT! LOL
The single camera scheduling is much more streamlined for individual configurations independent of the global settings. Not nearly as many variables and options to consider.
One thing I stumbled upon while learning how the single camera scheduling could be applied to a simple 'on at 7:15am / off at 9:30pm' schedule for triggering a driveway alert that sends me an SMS notification was that an additional profile wasn't actually necessary to create the on/off toggle or to schedule the event itself. Below is a screenshot of the result which you may figure out immediately. Otherwise, an explanation follows.
After pissing around for an hour or so getting nowhere with adding a new profile to the default Main 1, it dawned on me there is also a an 'Inactive 0' profile which is essentially 'off'. Bingo.
Since Main 1 is the system default profile and basically the fundamental 'active' condition everything else is based on, I simply overlaid Main 1 into the desired time frame of an
entire week of Inactive0 and there was my schedule without adding or switching profiles just to schedule a simple event.
How the same method would be implemented into a global schedule is likely to be quite different if even possible -- or necessary for that matter given all the other available settings. Off the top of my head I can't think of any other use than as an on/off tool for a given schedule (or individual device). Still pretty handy to have in the toolbox.
Otherwise, one suggestion you may want to consider is to base everything around Main 1 as Main 1 in a similar manner as how Inactive 0 was used in my single camera example, but as the default 'always on' condition everything else is based around. No need to rename it. It'll just be the normal default 'on' condition the scheduling is based on.
The main consideration, of course, is what the additional profiles are actually doing relative to any default condition otherwise. Major changes among lots of cameras? Minor changes for just a couple? Different alert / notification settings for the different time periods...
Another aspect would appear to be the ability to simply set up the schedules by number below the 'default' configuration as modified variations of whatever the default may happen to be. Your 'Work Day' could possibly be a sub variation of Main 1 saved as 'Schedule 1' in the drop down list, followed by 'Schedule 2' for the additional one and so on.
I'm just guessing on all of this, but it sounds good. LOL
The 'HELP' resource in the Scheduling window is done pretty well and would be another good place to catch up on the different features. The first thing I noticed was the various drawn areas for the different profile scheduling are not settings and are not saved as visuals after being configured. The schedule is still created, but doesn't remain as a visual as initially 'drawn'. But the drawn areas do seem to overlap as a cumulative result when a particular profile has multiple schedules as you seem to have read elsewhere.
Again, I know very little about the global scheduling but your post got my curiosity going. I've learned quite a bit just from exploring it this evening. It's just a shame I don't need it for anything!
Good luck getting it sorted out.
The single camera scheduling is much more streamlined for individual configurations independent of the global settings. Not nearly as many variables and options to consider.
One thing I stumbled upon while learning how the single camera scheduling could be applied to a simple 'on at 7:15am / off at 9:30pm' schedule for triggering a driveway alert that sends me an SMS notification was that an additional profile wasn't actually necessary to create the on/off toggle or to schedule the event itself. Below is a screenshot of the result which you may figure out immediately. Otherwise, an explanation follows.
- DrivewaySchedule.jpg (106.27 KiB) Viewed 15309 times
After pissing around for an hour or so getting nowhere with adding a new profile to the default Main 1, it dawned on me there is also a an 'Inactive 0' profile which is essentially 'off'. Bingo.
Since Main 1 is the system default profile and basically the fundamental 'active' condition everything else is based on, I simply overlaid Main 1 into the desired time frame of an
entire week of Inactive0 and there was my schedule without adding or switching profiles just to schedule a simple event.
How the same method would be implemented into a global schedule is likely to be quite different if even possible -- or necessary for that matter given all the other available settings. Off the top of my head I can't think of any other use than as an on/off tool for a given schedule (or individual device). Still pretty handy to have in the toolbox.
Otherwise, one suggestion you may want to consider is to base everything around Main 1 as Main 1 in a similar manner as how Inactive 0 was used in my single camera example, but as the default 'always on' condition everything else is based around. No need to rename it. It'll just be the normal default 'on' condition the scheduling is based on.
The main consideration, of course, is what the additional profiles are actually doing relative to any default condition otherwise. Major changes among lots of cameras? Minor changes for just a couple? Different alert / notification settings for the different time periods...
Another aspect would appear to be the ability to simply set up the schedules by number below the 'default' configuration as modified variations of whatever the default may happen to be. Your 'Work Day' could possibly be a sub variation of Main 1 saved as 'Schedule 1' in the drop down list, followed by 'Schedule 2' for the additional one and so on.
I'm just guessing on all of this, but it sounds good. LOL
The 'HELP' resource in the Scheduling window is done pretty well and would be another good place to catch up on the different features. The first thing I noticed was the various drawn areas for the different profile scheduling are not settings and are not saved as visuals after being configured. The schedule is still created, but doesn't remain as a visual as initially 'drawn'. But the drawn areas do seem to overlap as a cumulative result when a particular profile has multiple schedules as you seem to have read elsewhere.
Again, I know very little about the global scheduling but your post got my curiosity going. I've learned quite a bit just from exploring it this evening. It's just a shame I don't need it for anything!
Good luck getting it sorted out.