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  1. eyeball

    Update failed, 12002

    Update: Enabled firewall, tried a couple more times to update, finally downloaded and installed ok. Seems that the server providing the update files must be busy. The default time for automatic updating is 2 AM, so I'll bet everyone is hitting the download at the same time. I'll pick another...
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    Strange circle in video feed, bad CCD?

    It's obviously some type of "liquid" as you can force it to change shapes by tapping it. To my way of thinking it's less likely that a drop of anything external (water, etc) would get into the lens that way because it's a sealed, weatherproof camera. That's why I was thinking it may have been...
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    Update failed, 12002

    The automated updates have failed with 12002 since 3.60. Worked fine before that, no changes to network or BI pc. Updating manually (BI -> Options -> Check for Updates) has worked in the past, however now (attempting to update to 3.60.04) it's hanging at "Downloading update (128k/28692k)" for a...
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    Cameras anyone?

    Looks like Inspector Gadget hurled on a monitor :D
  5. eyeball

    Strange circle in video feed, bad CCD?

    I'm thinking it's some type of oil, maybe from manufacturing. There's a slight color difference inside the circle than outside it. I think I'd RMA it.
  6. eyeball

    Help with camera placement (new install)

    I'm no expert - just a couple of thoughts - if I was placing the garage camera (assuming a bullet camera) I would put it just to the left of the downspout (if facing garage door) pointing towards the driveway. I'm not familiar with the hikvisions, but for the cameras I've used you can only rely...
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    would you buy a refurbished harddrive?

    @Razer - I've noted the "professional" series Samsungs are significantly higher priced than the non-pro versions. For example, on newegg a Samsung 840 PRO Series 256g SSD is $189, while a Samsung 840 EVO 250g is only $139 - besides 6gb difference, any insight into what is it that they're selling...
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    Painting cameras ?

    I kicked around the idea of painting my cameras to match the trim, but ultimately I settled for the stock black camera - no mods to color. The reasons were that (1) black doesn't look that bad against most trims anyway and (2) if it stands out just a bit that's probably a good thing. I can see...
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    would you buy a refurbished harddrive?

    I'll quit posting these - but saw this on Newegg this morning - wasn't that long ago that a 240g would cost $220. ... I've used Crucials for a while now, been very pleased with reliability and performance vs. price. Crucial M550 CT512M550SSD1 2.5 inch 512GB SATA 6Gbps MLC Internal Solid...
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    would you buy a refurbished harddrive?

    8/9/2014: Newegg: Kingston 240Gb for $94 Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721108&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS080914&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS080914-_-EMC-080914-Index-_-SSD-_-20721108-L011A
  11. eyeball

    Painting cameras ?

    One of these days in the not so distant future I can envision that products - cars, cameras - anything - will have user-programmable color (taking another toke...) .... yeah, that's the ticket .... :laugh:
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    would you buy a refurbished harddrive?

    +1 on skipping the hybrid - I've used them on two occasions in laptops that had issues with SSDs - they're better in the compatibility arena and the performance is better than a vanilla hard drive, but not nearly as good as an SSD.
  13. eyeball

    would you buy a refurbished harddrive?

    I have a 240g in my blue iris box ... plenty big for my needs. If you wanted to minimize cost then you could buy a 120g and use it as a boot drive (assuming win 7 ... not sure about win 8's storage reqmts), but these days you can pick up a 240+gb for around $100... best performance boost I've...
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    would you buy a refurbished harddrive?

    The best upgrade I ever installed is Solid State Drives (SSD) - I have one in my BI pc - recording to it, etc., and also have an external eSATA 2Tb drive attached for offloading video before archiving. I'm using Crucial SSDs - been using them for around 3-4 years now (purchased when the price...
  15. eyeball

    BI Macros Question

    Hey thanks for the response Mike - I found those in the doc before I posted and have made use of them, but I was wondering if there are <i>others</i> that are available (for example "%s" is not documented in that list, but it provides the long camera name).
  16. eyeball

    BI Macros Question

    Hey Folks - In customizing emails sent in alert conditions I noted the following: In the email Subject, &TYPE is the alert type &CAM is the short camera name. These appear to only work in the Subject and not the body of the email. In the body of the email, %s is the long camera name. I found...
  17. eyeball

    CRLF in Alert Emails

    <br> worked like a champ! Thanks bp2008!
  18. eyeball

    CRLF in Alert Emails

    Trying to format an email alert, using macros, but the carriage return/line feeds are being ignored as entered into the body of the email. For example: Formatted like this in "Body" section of email: Date: %A, %#d %B, %Y Time: %H:M:%S FPS: %f Alert detected on camera: %s But comes out...
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    Is There a Way To Set A Standard (default) eMail (alert, watchdog) For All Cameras?

    As flexible as Blue Iris is, I'm sure there's a way to do this that I'm missing. It seems to me that courtesy of BI substitution variables there could be a single email template for alerts and watchdog. At this point I'm opting to have BI send emails, but I find myself configuring each...
  20. eyeball

    fi8910w timestamp on video

    Thanks for the response Don. I actually did RTFM (Read The F* Manual) before I posted. Regrettably that "OSD" crapage wasn't what I was looking for, but I have since figured it out. I use Blue Iris - in past versions BI would supply a default date/time overlay when a new camera was added...
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    fi8910w timestamp on video

    Hi folks - I have 6 x fi8910w - date and time visible in video and one that doesn't show the timestamp. For the life of me I can't locate an option to turn it on ... anyone out there know where the option is located? (On latest firmware for sys &ui) TIA!
  22. eyeball

    Foscam FI8906W and BlueIris

    I have 7 foscam 8910w's and Blue Iris - runs 24x7 with no problems (knock on wood :-) ) ... when your 8906s locked up - they didn't both lock up at the same time did they? The common thread is Blue Iris - when one or both of them locked up, did you try shutting down BI to see if it had any affect?
  23. eyeball

    Advice on purchasing a system

    About a year ago I installed both a CCTV (like the one you mentioned in the costco link, but only 8 channel) and a separate IP based system using foscam 8910w cameras. Long story short, the CCTV infrastructure sucks. Just this past week I have pulled out the CCTV system and have replaced those...
  24. eyeball

    Need help viewing camera when away from wifi

    Did you get this resolved? You might be encountering an issue with your ISP blocking inbound port 80 (normal http traffic) on the IP address assigned by your ISP. I had the same issue and changed it to port 81 - resolved the issue. By the way, (particularly if you have more than one camera) I...
  25. eyeball

    Migrating BI to New PC

    Thanks Mike - one additional thing I had to manually change is the LANIP value - it was set to the old machine's ip address, but everything else seems to be good. Now on to BI Tools! :-)
  26. eyeball

    Migrating BI to New PC

    Ok, so I figured it out. I stored a user on the new machine and noted where in the registry it went. Then I edited the registry backup and made the key match where the new PC installation expected it & re-imported it onto the new machine - although I had to re-enter my product key on BI start...
  27. eyeball

    Migrating BI to New PC

    Greetings folks - I'm moving Blue Iris to its own machine and need some help on migrating the settings from where it currently resides. The machine where it is currently running is win 7 64bit. The new machine it is going to is Win 7 32bit. I have used the "Export/backup settings" button...
  28. eyeball

    How To: Txt / Email alerts when Blue Iris Web Server is down

    Well, d@mmit. I took BI down, the spreadsheet alerted, then I brought it back up, it alerted me it was back up, but since then it's down, up, down, up all over again. It has something to do with recording the status in that db. I'll look more at it tomorrow. I can't believe anyone gets this...
  29. eyeball

    How To: Txt / Email alerts when Blue Iris Web Server is down

    (Not So) Simple Confusion? Hey Everlasting G - I took a quick gander at the code - it's written such that it appears that it can be started multiple times. That is, if you happen to click on "Website Monitor", then "Step 1: Initialize" - that actually starts the monitor running. If you...
  30. eyeball

    Separate Network for IP Cameras?

    Good to know, Ken. I'd likely have been pulling the rest of my hair out trying to get it to work with win7 - I and my hair thank you :)
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