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  1. Walrus

    When you're high

    I thought for sure he was going to stick his finger in the socket.
  2. Walrus

    Newbie Starter Guide to IP Cam System – VPN setup – Computer Hardware – Blue Iris – Dahua Cameras

    @TL1096r I would remove, or add a caution to this line: Adding a GPU like nvidia can be helpful to take stress off the CPU and for better streaming. It may mislead people into thinking it's a good idea, which it's not. 99.9% of the time it is not needed, nor recommended. Most of the time all...
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    The general guideline on here is to choose sensor size first, for low light/night performance. Your 8mp cams have 1/2.5" sensors. Those were good a few years ago, but there are better cams now with 1/1.8" sensors. And that's not the whole story, as when you look at a sensor size, a lower MP cam...
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    You do understand that more cameras require more storage (to achieve the same storage duration), but also that higher MP cameras require more compared to lower MP? Eg, roughly, if you have one 8MP camera, it has the same storage requirement as four 2MP cameras? Do some reading, or a lot. You...
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    I only have 3 cameras total. You have 5. I have storage to waste, until I get more cams/higher MP.
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    FPS isn't quality. MP and bitrate is. A lower FPS will just mean a person moving, will move farther each frame. But if you have a high enough bitrate to match your MP like I suggested, each frame will yield a high quality picture. Note, if you do change your FPS, you need to up the bitrate to...
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    Does the app pull from the sub-stream? I don't use it. 4 is the recommended setting by most users on here, it'll cut back on your file sizes when there is no change frame to frame. I have my 2MP cams at 6, and 6144 bitrate, but I only have 3 cams, so my 8TB drive gives me 5.5 weeks footage.
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    I-frame interval relates to the FPS, not the bitrate. Set it the same as the FPS (15). It normally defaults to double the FPS (30). Change those 2MP cams back to H.264H, and go back and set the hardware accel to default. Otherwise you are not using hardware accel on those. The bitrates I gave...
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    Good catch! I missed that. I'd disable the sub-streams too if you aren't using them.
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    2MP is 1080p which is 1920x1080. 2K is 1440p, which his 2MP cameras are not. Pointless addition to what we are trying to help out with here.
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    No you weren't. What's happened is BI detected the hardware acceleration not working when you set them to H.265, and on the camera setting video tab, it automatically changed the hardware accelerated decode to 'None' You also have your 2MP cam set to 30FPS, which is unnecessary. Set the 2MP to...
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    No, not currently with Intel hardware acceleration.
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    Bingo. You have nothing else on E, correct? Only for surveillance? Post a shot of the BI status, clip storage tab, to make sure you are good. eg this one:
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    DO NOT buy a graphics card. You don't need it. You only have 5 cameras. Your i7-6700 can handle it fine. Follow the guide in that post, and make sure it's working by checking in task manager.
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    Motion Detection best practice.

    All of your BlueIris allocations are a mess. You have everything limited to 20GB. And uncheck the 'limit clip age' on everything. Stop using it. Just because you have it checked, doesn't override the limit size. You are limiting everything to BOTH 20GB AND 7 days, whichever comes first.. which...
  16. Walrus

    Cable Protection

    PVC conduit, 1/2" for two cables, 3/4" if more than two.
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    High CPU Utilization

    That is 1830 MP/s, which is over the recommended 1500 MP/s limit of BI. See here: Choosing Hardware for Blue Iris | IP Cam Talk
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    High CPU Utilization

    That processor doesn't have quick sync (neeed for hardware acceleration). Also you need to provide more info than just '28 cameras' What is the MP of each cam? What FPS is each cam set to? That way you can calculate the total MP/s
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    Review-Dahua IPC-HDW2231RP-ZS Starlight Camera-Varifocal

    Try admin/admin
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    Issues with over-allocation, gaps in continuous recording

    I do 1 hour files, anything longer I find difficult to review. When you open a clip and drag the slider bar, an 8 hour file is impossible to find motion/someone walking by if it wasn't flagged as an alert.
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    Is H.265 realistically possible?

    ??? What did I just read?
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    Display switch at night.

    Most likel display driver. What CPU/GPU do you have? With my i5-6600 w/HD 530 GPU, the newest driver causes program windows that aren't maximized, to change size and position when the monitor shuts off to save power. Try an older driver.
  23. Walrus

    Misc questions

    @dohat leku I have basically the same processor (i5-6600), and three 2MP cameras. My CPU sits at less than 10% for the BI process itself, less than 20% overall for all processes, and jumps to 30% when I am remotely viewing. Like Fenderman said, this will drop once you purchase BI, as direct to...
  24. Walrus

    Dual uplinks

    To daisy chain them to another switch
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    Cabling: cat 5e or 6

    Less attenuation/better performance over long distances.
  26. Walrus

    URL Parameters

    Are you talking about UI3?
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    5.0.3 - New Edge Vector Motion Algorithm

    Watch:
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    Storage issue

    It is a taller one with an H at the end of the model number, or a shorter one with K at the end?
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    Storage issue

    No I'm not. You install a WD purple HDD IN your BI computer, and put new on that. But, you are using an NUC (which you shouldn't be using for BI), so I don't think you can install a HDD inside it along with a SSD, unless you have one of the tall ones
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    Storage issue

    Yup, what TonyR said. On the clips & archiving tab, it says 'Database (and ideally New folder) should remain on local/fast'. This means New should be on a local drive in your BI computer, not on a NAS. It doesn't mean it should be on a SSD.
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