Recent content by TWallace

In case anyone else stumbles on this thread, I set the filename for the saved images to this format: &CAM.%Y%m%d_%H%M%S This outputs the camera name, followed by a dot, then year month day underscore hour minute second. Without this, I believe each day's photo would overwrite the previous day's...

Thanks Tony, I got it working with your tips. I don't know why the Schedule route stopped working, but this appears to satisfy my requirements. At first I was a bit confused as after enabling the POST part (but before setting up the schedule) I was seeing images being added from one camera every...

It's Windows 7 and BI version is 5.5.4.3. I don't see what you're talking about in the BI help. I do see options to take a snapshot in the Record tab, but it only gives option to do it every "m:ss:s", and does not provide the ability to take a snapshot at a specific time each day, like the...

Years ago I setup BI to take daily snapshots from most of my cameras, with the intent of creating timelapse videos of garden projects. I hadn't looked at them in a while, but recently noticed the latest snapshots in the folder were from nearly a year ago. I'd like to get this working again...

Thanks a lot for looking into this. Strange that someone wrote an npm module (presumably) for interacting with Hikvision cameras and it features code meant for Dahua cameras instead. You can see in the source code here that it's using the configManager endpoints: node-hikvision-api/hikvision.js...

I'm trying to switch day/night profile for one camera using a NodeJS module. I've found an npm module which looks promising: node-hikvision-api. However, some of the commands it sends are returning 404 responses from the camera. Here's an example response I get when trying to switch to night...

I see the problem now. I was trying to set the preset from the Playback tab. But it's not possible there for some reason. I went to the Setup tab and found PTZ Settings there and was able to add presets.

I got a 25x Starlight camera last week and got it setup via Blue Iris. Camera works great, but I found that I can't set the presets in Blue Iris. It says it's setting them, but when I try to go to them it goes to the original camera default position on bootup. So I thought I'd try to set them...

This was it, thanks! I don't know why I didn't think of this. The two cameras in question had previously had problems and kept disconnecting. So I must have marked them hidden. They both started working on their own again recently after I had some electrical work done at my house. They were...

I have 12 cameras. I can view each of them remotely via web or app. However, on the "all camera" view, two cameras are missing. What setting could be causing this? It's always the same two cameras missing.

I've ordered a Dahua 25x cam. Recently I noticed that both of my failing Huisun cameras are now working fine again. I haven't done anything to them. I had some major electrical work done at the house last week (upgraded from 100 amp to 200 amp service and added some new circuits), but that just...

Currently I have 2 network switches in the attic which connects all the cameras to the network. If I could add a device in the attic (SeaLevel 120e?) and connect that to the network in the same way, I'd be ok with that. Would then just need to purchase sensors (not sure which ones) to attach to...

I'm looking at motion close to the house, say within 20' roughly. Anything beyond that is likely just neighbors walking or driving by and I don't want to be alerted to that. I'll take a look at the SeaLevel devices.

Thanks nayr, any idea which PIR sensors I should be looking at, though? Is this only applicable to the 3 cameras I have with alarm ports? Or are there DC powered outdoor PIR sensors that can communicate wirelessly (zwave, wifi or other?). I'm planning on writing a NodeJS app to talk to Blue Iris...

I'm interested in using PIR sensors to trigger motion detection email alerts because I'm tired of the many false alarms that image based motion detection is causing. 3 of my cameras have alarm ports which I think can be connected to a PIR sensor, but then I'd need to power the sensor as well as...