Features
Everything Blue Iris can show you, faster.
Caesa is built for one thing: seeing what's happening, and what happened, as quickly as possible.
Live
Every camera, in under a second
Caesa plays Blue Iris's own video natively: no web pages, no transcoding delays you can avoid. From a cold start to a moving picture takes under a second on a modern phone.
- Blue Iris's camera wall as one efficient stream, or a tile per camera
- Full screen with pinch and double-tap zoom, sound, and PTZ with presets
- At home it connects to Blue Iris directly on your network; away, through your usual address, switching by itself
- A camera list that says what each camera is doing, and plays its latest alert with one tap
(screenshot from demo mode)
Focus on motion
Only the cameras that matter, right now
Choose Focus on motion and the Live tab shows every camera until something happens. Then it shows just those cameras, live, as large as your screen allows, and everything again once it's quiet.
- Comes in on Blue Iris's trigger, any motion, or only once its AI has confirmed something: your choice
- Choose which cameras may take over, and how long they stay
- Works on the Dashboard too: a wall-mounted tablet that always shows what's happening
(screenshot from demo mode)
Alerts
Alerts that are already on your phone
Caesa downloads new alerts in the background, even with the app closed and your phone asleep, so when you tap one it plays at once and you can scrub through it frame by frame, offline.
- AI labels and recognised faces on every alert, grouped by camera and time
- Search in plain words: “cars last night”, “people at the back door”
- Scrub anywhere, even in a clip still downloading; what's arrived is kept
- Mark reviewed, flag, protect and delete (with the right Blue Iris rights)
(screenshot from demo mode)
Timeline
A night, played back as just its events
The Timeline shows recordings and alerts on a scrubber you can pinch to zoom. Choose Motion only and playback shows just the cameras with movement, skipping quiet stretches.
- A vertical day history beside the player: tap an alert to play from it
- Speeds from 1× to 16×, and reverse
- Every morning, an optional summary of the night with a replay at the speed you choose
(screenshot from demo mode)
Notifications
The moment Blue Iris's AI confirms it
With the free Caesa Bridge on your Blue Iris PC, alerts reach your phone in a second or two, through the reverse proxy you already use. No extra ports, no cloud service, no account.
- Choose what to be told about: people, vehicles, animals, recognised faces
- Per camera, quiet hours, and a minimum AI confidence to ignore false alarms
- Rich notifications with a picture and Watch, Mark reviewed and Mute actions
- Several people and phones on one Blue Iris, each seeing only their own cameras
(screenshot from demo mode)
Security
Locked when you want it, armed when you leave
Protect the app with your fingerprint, face or screen lock: the whole app, or just disarming, deleting and signing out. Away mode can arm Blue Iris when you leave home and disarm it when you're back, with an Undo every time.
- Your Blue Iris password is sealed in Android's hardware-backed keystore
- Several servers, each with its own home address and settings
(screenshot from demo mode)