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    How many cameras do you have inside? Any? Am I going overboard?

    Well, after talking with the wife, she only wants one in the house, sitting on a shelf in the corner on one of the shelves of the built-ins on either side of our fireplace in the great room. I should've known to check with the boss first anyway. When will I ever learn? She gets nervous when I'm...
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    How many cameras do you have inside? Any? Am I going overboard?

    I'm planning out the inside cameras for the new house we're building. We have four external doors counting the door from the mud room to the garage and I want a camera on each door. Since a lot of break-ins tend to happen from the garage, at least on homes with service doors, I want two in the...
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    Why does the BI iOS app look so horrible and pixelated?

    I looked around a little more at some of my other cameras. I have at least two more identical cameras in my home, also recording and viewable through BI, and these look great through the BI iOS app, so whatever the problem is, it doesn't necessarily appear to be the app itself. It's likely...
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    Why does the BI iOS app look so horrible and pixelated?

    I've noticed lately, and I'm fairly certain that it wasn't always this way, but the BI iOS app looks absolutely horrible. It's about the nastiest looking, pixelated mess that I've seen in many years, and I'm fairly certain that it hasn't always looked this way. When I look at recorded video or a...
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    ONVIF Compatible, POE, 2k or 4k Doorbell?

    Yes, the this I was speaking of was the Reolink doorbell mentioned in a couple of the posts. I guess, once I started replying, I got it in my head that the whole post was about the Reolink doorbell, rather than doorbells in general. Sorry about that and thanks for confirming.
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    ONVIF Compatible, POE, 2k or 4k Doorbell?

    I'm glad I found this thread. I gave up on Ring and having to pay $30+ a year to store my video clips a couple of years ago and went with a Foscam doorbell. They no longer make one and I'm considering new camera options for the new house we're planning to build. I may remove the Foscam and just...
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    Upgrading my storage drive?

    It will be the same. That's sort of what I was thinking, but thank you for confirming. I appreciate your help.
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    Upgrading my storage drive?

    I have BI installed with Windows on an SSD and store my footage on a separate HDD. Until recently, I only had two indoor cameras and I just used the 500GB HDD that came with the computer. Recently, I've added two indoor cameras for a total of four, plus a doorbell cam. I've also purchased, but...
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    Cameras stop recording when using sub stream

    I think I have it working now. When I went back into camera settings, I double-checked the camera model showing under the configuration. There was another option below the default one that had been selected during setup. It listed the same camera models, but it had RTSP at the end. I selected...
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    Cameras stop recording when using sub stream

    That certainly may be true, but within the Foscam ecosystem, the R4S is a higher grade camera than the one that is working, which is basically just a wi-fi only baby monitor type camera, so it seems really strange that it would work with that one, but not the other two. I'll touch base with...
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    Cameras stop recording when using sub stream

    Well, it seems to be enabled. When I use the Foscam software and go to those cameras' settings, they show sub stream information, and the sub stream appears to be being used for the BI display when I enable it in BI. It's just that, when I do, the main stream stops, so there is no recording done...
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    Cameras stop recording when using sub stream

    I have been using out-of-the-box BI5 for a couple of years now. I finally started watching through some optimization videos and reading through the ipcamtalk wiki articles and making changes. After adding the sub streams to lower CPU utilization, two of my cameras have stopped recording...
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    Need help repairing a doorbell from old ADT install

    I got over quicker than I thought I would. I found what I thought I’d find. I determined which wires went to the switch and which to the transformer and then the fixing was easy enough. Everything is working well now.
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    Need help repairing a doorbell from old ADT install

    I'll checked it out, and that's pretty much how a Ring or any other doorbell camera I've ever seen works, but that's not how this one is setup. I think I may have figured out what they've done though. It's just a guess, and I can't go over for a couple of days to check it out, but it sounds...
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    Need help repairing a doorbell from old ADT install

    My wife and I own a few rental homes. We're currently working on one after a tenant left. They had installed a DIY ADT Blue system and left most of it at our rental. I've removed everything but the problem is the doorbell camera. I'm really not sure what all they modified with their install. I...
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