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I am going to use a couple of these to monitor my new house build: CelluCORE™ 20 Solar Cellular Trail Camera | Bushnell I don't have them yet so can't give a review, but the online reviews seem good and they are fairly cheap. They are only for still images. They have another model for live view...

Doesn't anyone use the 2231 anymore? That is my favorite camera. I have a couple 5442's but I like the 2231 better because it sees great in the dark and uses low bandwidth.

It's a good idea but my biggest problem will be power. It needs to be solar powered. I will be over 2000 miles away so I will probably just go with one or two all in one solar/LTE cams.

I will be starting construction of a new house where there is no power, but there is cell service. I need a few decent solar/LTE cameras that I can place in the surrounding trees that so that I can get a live view whenever I want. I know the quality of these cams will not be even close to the...

As long as you keep your PC updated, then you should have the .net requirements. For the parameters, I use a batch file and put the name of the exe and the parameters in there and then call the batch file from the alert.

I wanted to trigger some of my Kasa lights from Blue Iris when my cameras detect motion. There is no public API available but there are a few web pages that list enough of the protocol for what I need. I used this info to create an exe that that will turn on a light for n seconds and then turn...

I get the same thing using Intel Hardware acceleration with H.265, but it's much worse. I have a much older CPU i7-6770. Does it go away if you turn hardware acceleration off?

Are you using H.264 or H.265? When I use that version of the driver (23.20.16.4973) with H.265, it seems like it is working fine but when I view the recordings in BI the video pauses for 5-10 seconds then starts again for 1-2 seconds then pauses again repeatedly so its unviewable.

I also use 10.xx IP addresses on my network. What I do to set up a new Dahua camera is temporarily change the IPv4 settings for the PC network connection to 192.168.1.x, and then access the camera at 192.168.1.108 and change the IP. Then change the PC back to the 10.xx IP setting.

Is there any advantage to using one or the other?

I lost the turret set screw for one of my Dahua 5442 cameras. I found a screw that works but it is big and ugly. Is there anywhere to get these screws?

I will play around with the settings more to see if there is something I missed, but so far I am unable to get BI to not decode the stream at all. The way I test this is to add/remove support for the sub stream. Without sub stream support I am at 18-20% CPU load, with sub stream support I am at...

I have motion detection disabled and I have screen overlays disabled and I am using direct to disk recording so I would assume it would not require decoding the stream. There must be something else going on that requires decoding.

Wow - great tip about the sub streams. It dropped CPU usage to about 1/8 of what it was. What I don't understand is why it makes a difference if I have motion detection disabled in BI for all cameras.

I had the exact same problem yesterday. It still looked fine in the camera web interface so I rebooted my BI machine to restart the service and it fixed itself and hasn't happened since. BI version is 5.3.7.4.