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  1. Walrus

    Motion Detection best practice.

    Depends on how much storage duration you want. You have 5 cameras now? If you add 2 more 4MP ones, yes, you'll likely want another drive unless you are ok with 1-2 weeks footage.
  2. Walrus

    BlueIris using substream of IPCamTalk IPCT-HDBW4432F

    You probably change something here, don't know what though: Why don't you just change the main stream to a lower resolution? It's what you asked, when you said 'or otherwise reduce framerate and/or resolution?'
  3. Walrus

    BlueIris using substream of IPCamTalk IPCT-HDBW4432F

    You reduce the resolution and FPS directly in the camera's settings by logging in to the camera.
  4. Walrus

    Newbie Request for Camera Recommendations (pretty detailed)

    If you were going to use Blue Iris, then the extra features aren't used, and the only benefit is audio. You mentioned using your Synology NAS with Surveillance Station, I have no idea how that works.
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    Newbie Request for Camera Recommendations (pretty detailed)

    The ones with Z in the part number are varifocal (eg IPC-HDW2231R-ZS). The IPC-T5442TM-AS is not varifocal, you order it with a fixed lens (2.8mm, 3.6mm or 6mm). Unfortunately there currently isn't a varifocal model with that low light sensor size (1/1.8") in the turret shape. You'd have to get...
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    Newbie Request for Camera Recommendations (pretty detailed)

    What SouthernYankee said, start with one IPC-HDW5231R-ZE (if you want audio) or IPC-HDW2231R-ZS (no audio) and play with them, then go from there. I went with several of the IPC-HDW2231R-ZS, as for us in Canada, with the exchange rate, it's quite a bit more for the 5231. I started with one...
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    Newbie Request for Camera Recommendations (pretty detailed)

    Move the garage camera closer to the left corner of the house. Put another one on the opposite side of the garage under the porch overhang.
  8. Walrus

    Edge Vector motion sensor algorithm settings

    Turned off cancel shadows, contrast is set to the minimum (12 or 13), and it still didn't detect my car going from zone A to B (driveway to road).
  9. Walrus

    Edge Vector motion sensor algorithm settings

    Thanks for contacting him! Trying it today. He's added the Edge Vector description to the help file, but this info about turning off cancel shadows is missing. Maybe suggest he adds it to the help file?
  10. Walrus

    Dahua 4MP Starlight Lineup

    And under the 'Lite' series, there are new ones shown, looks like this IPC-HDW2231T-ZS-S2 replaces the IPC-HDW2231R-ZS: https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/productDetail/36197 It has a min ill. of 0.002 vs 0.006
  11. Walrus

    Motion Detection best practice.

    How is it mounted? On the wall, or under the eaves on the soffit? Can you remount the camera out further? I'm guessing you are wanting to fully see the front walkway?
  12. Walrus

    Dahua 5MP Panoramic Poe FishEye IP Security Camera IPC-EB5531

    Review: Dahua IPC-EW5531-AS 5MP Fisheye Camera
  13. Walrus

    Trying to get my head around BI hardware setup

    Yes, but you'd want it to be a managed switch then, so you can separate the camera ports from the regular data ports, to keeps the cams off the internet. Or, in your router you can block the camera's MAC addresses from accessing the internet. You need a POE switch to power the cams. You don't...
  14. Walrus

    Which ethernet cable would be best ?

    The first one from Monoprice is stranded. You want solid. And why buy 1000ft of gel filled outdoor cable for indoors? Also is outdoor CMR or CMP rated for use in walls?
  15. Walrus

    12 x 8MP - system requirements - discussion

    Then try duplicating a camera, and make the main stream the input. Set it to only record only on trigger, but don't set any motion triggers for it. Make it part of a group, and then have the motion trigger from the substream camera trigger the group. That will make the main stream camera start...
  16. Walrus

    12 x 8MP - system requirements - discussion

    Ok, that would have been a useful tidbit to include in your question. If you are referring to this that Fenderman said: 'NX is likely analyzing the iframes just like you can do with blue iris to drastically lower the cpu consumption' that is what the limit decoding feature does. Regarding the...
  17. Walrus

    12 x 8MP - system requirements - discussion

    This has been beaten to death other places if you search. You are running 1920 MP/s (8mp*16cams*15FPS). Your 8700k isn't enough, unless you lower the MP or FPS. Or get an i9-9900k, and even then it might be too much. Choosing Hardware for Blue Iris | IP Cam Talk
  18. Walrus

    High CPU Utilization

    Doh.. overlooked that
  19. Walrus

    High CPU Utilization

    Yup, that would peg the CPU again. A different option would be adding a video card to make use of NVIDIA CUDA. But it looks like it needs to be more than a GT 1030 with 2GB ram, @bp2008 ran a test here with one and it maxed out at 13 cameras: 4.7.8 - August 28, 2018 - Support for the Nvidia...
  20. Walrus

    High CPU Utilization

    The 1500 MP/s still requires quick sync, which you don't have. And at that, 1500MP/s would require the new i9-9900k. You could try turning on 'limit decoding unless required' on a few of the cameras, on the camera settings video tab. But read here: Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage | IP Cam Talk
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