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The PTZ controls only appear while you're on the "Live View" tab, and you may need to click on the word "PTZ" at the top of the side bar if you've accidentally collapsed it.

The checkbox to disable Blue Iris's timestamp overlay is on the Video tab. If it is already unchecked and appearing for some other reason (e.g. a bug), you can Edit overlays and just delete the timestamp overlay altogether, then it should be impossible for it to show up in any future thumbnails.

Way too much text. Make it 5 words or less and have a big clear arrow showing which way to go.

Sounds like BI bugs in the latest few versions. I haven't seen a problem yet myself.

Hi. For #1 you are correct, there is no URL parameter. For #2, I have no idea why it would not work.

All 5G home internet services should support inbound connections on IPv6. I'm not sure if Asus routers support IPv6 listening for their VPN servers... If you want IPv4 inbound, it will most likely cost extra monthly if it is available at all, and I couldn't say who makes it available. I'd...

With the extender items he linked above, yes. Note how it mentions "over gigabit ethernet switch" in the name, and TCP/IP in the description. That means they are capturing the incoming HDMI signal, compressing and streaming it over your LAN, then decoding and outputting it as HDMI again on the...

@Coltect I'm curious about OpenWRT and how favorably it compares to pfsense. How difficult is it to set up advanced things like the VPNs and VLANs and multiple DHCP servers? Do you need to use a command line interface for anything? I've been a pfsense user for several years. I like that it...

Consider that plant too with regard to camera positioning. If it grows much higher it may block a camera's view or otherwise affect its image quality with strong IR reflection.

Good question. Nothing is perfect, but I'd still trust OpenVPN with weak configuration far more than I'd trust the P2P option. With the P2P route, you are letting your NVR connect to someone else's servers and you can't know what kind of risks that opens you up to. There could be...

The cleanest path is certainly to start over from scratch with new configuration. Like just the other day I ended up deleting and re-creating one of my cameras because it was the only way to make its video not freeze when I had audio support enabled for the camera.

It is unclear to me if updating firmware will help. Asus's website says: That is higher than anything available for RT-AC86U so you can't use wireguard on it even if you update. Whether an update would help with the OpenVPN situation or not, I have no idea. Maybe that would give you a new...

I really don't know what settings change it would take to get rid of the warning you have now. Funny that the firmware update won't work. Maybe you got a firmware file for a different hardware revision. This thread may have a solution to make openvpn work again: Asus OpenVPN Insecure Hash...

Or if UPnP is enabled.

I'd suggest using wireguard instead of OpenVPN then. Asus routers support it basically the same, though you may need to update the router's firmware. Since you are using a hardware NVR appliance, port forwarding to it is very risky.