Thanks josh for explaining other people’s use-cases. I feel like bit of a noisy trouble-maker. 
Yeah as I learnt more about this the reliability issue has become a bigger problem for me. I initially thought that each device would add more load to Blue Iris, but if they’re all displaying the same streams then the load is capped. It’s still a big load, but it’s manageable (5 streams = 20% CPU on my 5.0GHz 8-core shared system).
I’ve just discovered that Fully Kiosk supports user script injection, so I have a path forward for the wall-mounted tablets. Mobile phones and PCs are still a problem as I don’t have control of those browsers.
I’m really hoping that more people vote for Embed Web page from 3rd-party site into dashboard (iframe or otherwise) which would also solve my problems.
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PS: this is what the reliability issue looks like when the screen has been off for >30m (>5m for Android). This is on my PC, but same thing happens on Android. In this case it’s obvious that you need to pull down on the screen to reload the dashboard, but if it’s daytime, and they’re frozen on a daytime frame, then it’s impossible for my elderly parents to know if it’s live or not. When the doorbell rings and the tablets turn on, I want my parents to be able to glance at the tablet before opening the door, not checking timestamps or swaying trees to figure out if the streams are working or not.
