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One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:35 pm
by jkaplan
I apparently accidentally checked "Open in desktop frame" when right clicking on one of my cameras at some point.
Right clicking again on the separate camera window and unchecking this option puts the camera window back into the main display window as expected.
HOWEVER, whenever I restart BI the separate window pops up again, and right clicking on that window shows that "Open in desktop frame" is indeed checked.
I can't figure out how to "clear" this setting permanently, i.e. when the program is started up.
Any advice greatly appreciated...
Jerry
Re: One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:42 pm
by HeneryH
Oh, jeez. This happened to me once and I had a heck of a time getting it fixed.
I am so sorry but I forget the solution.
I am only providing emotional support that I have done this before and it is very frustrating.
Re: One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 8:40 pm
by jkaplan
Thanks - perhaps we can start a "support" group, I'm available Fridays...
PS - I wrote to support, let's see what happens...
Re: One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:21 pm
by Pemmel152
Well I have this exact same situation.
No matter what I do BI keeps starting up with my cameras in desktop frames and no matter how many times I uncheck that box it always opens in a desktop frame.
I am at the latest release as of 2/1/2025
Any ideas ??
Thanks
Pete
Re: One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:35 am
by dowutyalyk
same for me. Been like this for a few weeks now. Seems like a bug since it's not remembering the setting when I uncheck 'open in desktop frame'.
Re: One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:31 am
by aries7602
The same is happening to me. Several weeks ago I accidentally set it to desktop view and now it just keeps happening everytime I restart. Clearly a bug.
Re: One camera always popping up in "separate window" at startup??
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:07 pm
by dowutyalyk
found a workaround hack. Requires registry editing.
Go here:
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Cameras\
The cameras have their own subfolder with individual settings. In my example, my camera with the issue was called 'garage'. It's also known as 'cam7' in my configuration.
I then compared the various camera settings and I noticed the spawn key in the normal cameras was set to 0, but the garage was set to 1.
So I went to the garage folder and set the garage spawn key to 0.
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris\Cameras\Garage
This is now placing the garage camera (cam7) into the main group layout and not sitting out in its own frame.