Recent content by Stealth22

So when I first installed my 8 cameras (4MP Hiks) last year, I didn't have a computer to run them with. I had no budget at the time to buy one, so I re-purposed my gaming PC, which wasn't getting much use. It's a bit old, but has an i7-2600K and 16GB of RAM, so it was good enough. Fast forward...

Cameras are notorious for being easy to hack, and should be treated as hostile devices, from a network standpoint. My security cameras aren't even wireless, and they are still isolated on their own VLAN, with no path to the outside world. I presume your camera runs on wifi? I would lock down...

It's perfectly alright to use a second NIC for your 'camera' network. I've done the same thing; its best to keep them isolated. Not only for network traffic, but for security reasons as well. My cameras are all VLAN'd away from the rest of the network. One word of advice...ensure that your POE...

What he said. You can install TeamViewer as a backup option if you want, but I would avoid doing so. Set up a VPN instead, and use Windows Remote Desktop.

- Just updated to 4.3.3.2 - Cranked the three 30FPS cameras down to 15FPS, and the remaining five units down to 10FPS - Before doing the above, turned off HA entirely just to see what would happen...the CPU usage went up slightly, but not by much - Turned HA back on, but left VPP disabled; also...

So I finally got all my new Hikvisions installed. They all work fine, and I went into the camera setup for each unit and set it's resolution, framerate, time, etc. I added all the cameras to Blue Iris...at first I had them set to record continuously, then last night I changed them to motion...

Ok, great. I know that post is from a different thread, but reading things like this is discouraging me from going with the VM route. I'm thinking it would work much better if I install Windows Server on bare metal, and run BI on the physical machine. @nayr, would it cause too much of a...

Oh, that sucks. Is it easy enough to re-activate the license?

Alright, thanks guys. I've ordered my cameras...all eight of them are 4MP. I'll probably give them a try with a VM first using the trial version of BlueIris, before I enter the license info. If it doesn't work that well, I can just re-build it as a physical PC.

Thumbs up for Nelly's Security! They're awesome to deal with, and are happy to answer any questions you may have, no matter how many times you bug them!! :D I can't wait for my Hikvisions to get here so I can set them up! Thanks, guys!!

Sweet, thanks!! I guess I'll give it a try with the VM first, and see how it goes. How many cameras are you running? What resolution are they recording at?

How many cameras have you got? I plan to buy eight 4MP cameras. The hardware is powered by an i7-2600K, and 16GB of RAM. I'm debating right now whether to leave it as a dedicated box, or run it as a VM.

Sorry, I know this thread is old, but are there any updates on this? I was planning on running BI on a dedicated box, but it would be nice if I could run it as a VM instead. It would still be the same box, but it would just be running one or two other VM's alongside it.

Good advice. I plan to keep mine on a separate network entirely, lol.

How easy would it be for you to take the camera down? I'd be interested to know what happens if you plug the camera into your network normally, i.e. not going into the NVR. You'll need a power source obviously, whether that be an adaptor, PoE injector, or PoE switch. Is 192.168.1.5 possibly the...