Recent content by TLCTimFL

I've been using female to female connectors with my POE cams for a year now with no notable change. These are in the attic of my house in Florida. The reason for my adding these was that I needed to move my NVR and several cables were too short to drop down into the wall where I needed them.

The best way to setup your hardware is to add an extra internal hard drive and save all data to the added drive. This allows windows to do its thing on your main drive and the saves all happen on the added drive. Files will save faster. I tried using a NAS drive for the saves but remember...

I live in Florida and totally understand your garage situation. This is going to sound like an off the wall solution but is your hot water heater in the garage? If so, replace the standard tank with with one that has a heat exchanger. This really works. It will cool your garage down...

I don't like that much action. I sure am glad I don't live on a corner.

Hindsight says absolutely but I already put several hours into working with the new numbers before I realized it didn't have a reset button. I use 3 "servers" (Blue Iris, Plex & WD My Cloud PR2100) that don't have monitors, mouse, keyboard that I set up first along with more than 10 Google...

I found and downloaded their software but it doesn't allow me to change the IP range or address that I can see. I believe It only searches the IP range given by the router.

My internet provider recently replaced my router. I use static IP addresses for my cams so I can access them via phone. Yes, I've used Blue Iris for years but it has given me issues accessing via phone so I've used the app IP Cam Viewer along with the static addresses. Problem: Old router...

When I had kids up to mischief in and around my cars and yard, I printed their pictures and hung them in our community center with the title, "Are These Your Children?" That got them noticed and recognized. The mom was mad that I posted the pictures and my answer was, "Ok, next time I'll just...

Here's my 2 cents worth. My system is similar but I don't have as many cameras. I bought refurbished as you can really trust it knowing they fixed and definitely tested the equipment. Suggestions: Get a tower. Running 24/7, it's easier to keep things cooler. Make sure wiring is routed inside...

Depending on how many cameras you use and what exactly you have BI doing, your CPU could be way under powered. I have BI watching 5 cams for motion and this sometimes taxes my CPU depending on how much motion is found. When I'm away, I use 8 cams and am sure it misses some motion. So don't take...

So what might your suggestion be? Should I uninstall BI and reinstall, or what? Here's what I did to get around the issue that has dogged me since I purchased the My Cloud Pro 2100 back in July. I installed an internal 2TB drive in the tower that BI is running on and redirected everything...

Yes, BI is running as a service. So I went in to look at the login of the service and it was the system user which is Tim (me) and I'm the only account on the computer. I wonder if that's conflicting with the Admin account of the My Cloud. Since I'm the only account on the computer, I never...

Re: Blue Iris and WD My Cloud - Can't FTP or Map Drive The WD tech support spent almost 2 hours troubleshooting. I think he finally gave up defeated. What did we accomplish? I'm able to map drives now...but here's the strange thing. Blue Iris is not seeing the mapped drives. I've tried...

Re: Blue Iris and WD My Cloud - Can't FTP or Map Drive Darn, I was hoping...but didn't work. IP4 was not on so I followed your instructions with no luck. It makes no sense what so ever to me. So I have a call set up for Saturday with high level Western Digital support and am hoping he can...

Blue Iris and WD My Cloud - Can't FTP or Map Drive I've been using BI successfully for years with a Seagate NAS (network) drive until the Seagate crashed. Now I'm the owner of a Western Digital My Cloud Pro 2100 (pr2100) and can't get BI to save to it. When I try and FTP to it, the test was a...