Recent content by cinnabuns

Thanks for the heads up. I had remembered needing to pick the chime type but I setup the doorbell over a year ago and couldn't for the life of me find that setting. My chime had stopped working recently for no apparent reason and setting the chime type again via re-adding fixed it.

I don't have Hik-Connect but I am using a 3rd party NVR (Blue Iris). It's still working after upgrading to 190708. So any NVR that just needs the RTSP stream should still be able to access it the same way as before.

Thanks for heads up. I found the video I think you're referring to: It looks like it will require some tinkering to do what I want. From what I gather in the video, I would need to scrape the MAC addresses off the router or using some other means, and then use the BI JSON API to set the...

I'm getting fewer phantom alerts with a 400m radius, but I still get them occasionally. I caved and got the iOS app for my wife's phone. With the 2 working together geofencing is "OK" in that at least my phantom alerts are ignored when she's home with me. It's mildly irritating but I guess it...

I will try increasing the size of the geofence. It was at 200m and the only step up is 400m. I do use my phone quite a bit so I'm not likely to notice the battery drain much from the geofencing alerts. I'm hoping I won't have to go the RFID route or any option that requires manual user input...

I actually got a reply from the Blue Iris email support, and they stated that geofencing uses the built-in Android "geofence" feature, which doesn't use the GPS explicitly at all. I sometimes wish it would more proactively get the GPS location though just because at least on my phone, the...

So re-installing seems to have helped. Enabling/disabling one of my phone's built-in battery saving features doesn't seem to make any difference. The problem now is that I am getting a lot of phantom notifications (entering/exiting geofence) whenever I'm at home but indoors. This seems to be...

I've re-installed. I don't run any battery saving apps, but my phone does have a built-in battery saving mode. I've already added Blue Iris to the list of exclusions previously (like how I exclude Life360 from battery saving), but for now I've just disabled it altogether. I'll report back when I...

I don't have a problem with location services being on. I already have it on for a host of other reasons. But if the app needs to be active for geofencing to work, that seems to make the feature pretty useless. Apps like Life360 can track GPS location constantly (or at least, often enough) in...

I just set up BI and installed the mobile app and have been trying to get geofencing and notifications to work properly, but to no avail. The problem is that everything works only when I am actively using the BI Android app, but when my screen is off for a while, the app seems to no longer do...