Recent content by bfollowell

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Yes, I've always known that I'd want a much better camera for outside.

Yeah, that goes back about 2.5 years, so I don't really recall, but I may have. I don't think I did, but possibly. I just bought another R4S though for somewhere else inside, and I know I used the barcode to set it up and everything went well, and it's working well with BI. Comparing the...

Nope, it's just a normal ip address that is part of my network. One strange thing I noticed is that, when I check the ip in the Foscam iOS app it gives me one address, but when I check with Windows Foscam VMS it shows another address. Both are able to view and control the camera perfectly, even...

I found a few minutes to log on and tinker, but no luck, or at least no good luck. I deleted the old camera and created a new one using the new info. When I click on find/inspect, it never finds anything. It gets a timeout, so it's still dead in the water as far as BI is concerned. It works...

I had been thinking I might try that tomorrow. Actually, I can remote in from work, so maybe I'll tinker with it over lunch. I'll reply back if that fixes it. Thanks for the suggestion!

I have a Foscam R4S in my garage. It's been out there for almost 3 years and I've never really had any issues with it. The video feed is recorded using Blue Iris. I was doing some work out there a couple of days ago and I had to turn off the circuit breaker that happened to feed that camera...