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    Neighbors house blows up

    Was the camera auto tracking or something? Kept facing the road and not the fire. In any case... crazy!
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    Issues with WD purple drives

    No worries, you aren't alarming anyone. No one should assume that your issues are indicative of a broader issue... not without more data and controls. This is just a general discussion of what might be wrong and what to test for. Certainly your issue itself is interesting... drives shouldn't...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Understood. Just thought it would be a nice thing to view since for many folks these systems are likely headless and UI3 becomes the main interface to the system (at least it is for me!).
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    Blue Iris UI3

    @bp2008 have you considered adding CPU temp (assuming BI can capture and present it to the web API) to the UI3 interface? The Server Status info is great and I was thinking this would be another nice addition to have some visibility to potential issues on the BI system if it's running hot...
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    Issues with WD purple drives

    A few comments to your points. 1. He's stated these were replacement drives which means that at least one of them worked on that PC before so there should be no issue with them being too "new" (which I'm not sure what you implying by too new). If a drive utilized some interface protocol...
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    Issues with WD purple drives

    So 4 drives failed, each shipped as a replacement to a previous drive, correct? Assuming this is the case that would likely mean they were also different production runs. This is very hard to believe (I don't mean to imply doubting your honesty) as this is a 100% failure rate for 4 drives...
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    Important! About dahua hacked Chinese cams and NVR issues

    When dealing with Chinese products or high tech products manufactured in China it's always best to only buy from known reputable sources. Many of these sellers are just scam artists. Amazon, AliExpress, Ebay... these are all sites that facilitate this now for their own profit. They don't...
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    Disappointing - RESOLVED!

    You are disappointed that you received the wrong product and you act like Andy has just ignored you... but you give no timelines nor any real details. Has this been weeks since you informed Andy of the issue? Months? Days? You do realize Andy isn't Amazon and is overseas so correcting issues...
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    Use Two LAN Ports (1 for cameras only)?

    It would. This is one approach to isolate your cameras from the internet. You could also do this with two physical switches (rather than a VLAN) and you'll not have to mess with assuring you have your VLAN properly configured and to avoid things like broadcast storms on the switch if you...
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    Well I'm actually not saying it IS the CPU just that it could be. That's why I am careful to say "components". Most likely it is either the motherboard or the CPU in this case since you said you swapped out the RAM modules for different ones (I believe?) If you can't get your hands on...
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    Gl! The thing with temps is that if the component is already failing then it won't take high temps to cause it to fail so your temps may be "ok" now but it could already be too late. There are other ways to test for failing components such as "freezing" them during operation to force the temps...
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    Could be North Korean hackers....
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    IPC-A35 - PTZ function not working in BI

    Thanks BadBlake I'll give that a try.
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    If it's failing when you "tax it" it is absolutely possible it is the CPU, or the heatsink isn't seated properly the second time around. If you have an addiitonal PC around you could swap out the power supply to isolate that out. If you rebuilt the OS, and the problem recurred without a...
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    Adding a separate video card wont help if the problem is the Intel chip, most likely. If the problem was due to the GPU sections of the card while BI is in use then you'd have to disable hardware acceleration in BI to test. Does the system run if you just boot to Windows and do not run BI...
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    When you run in safe mode you run with a significantly reduced set of drivers, including no 3D hardware, just standard frame buffered VGA. What this means is that when in safe mode you reduce the work load on the hardware. If overheating is the problem, or you have a failing hardware...
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    Frequent shutdowns and BSOD's on usually great PC

    Have you checked the operating temperature of the CPU? Cleaned the CPU heatsink, fans and vents? Quite often random lockups, reboots and BSODs are the result of overheating due to dirty cooling systems. There are a number of tools out there that will help you monitor those temps...
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    IPC-A35 - PTZ function not working in BI

    BadBlake, I'm having the same issue you were. You said you chose a different protocol, which one? I have two A35s... one works and one doesn't (PTZ) which is strange. Same settings on both. The first one also didn't work initially then started working. Have removed and re-added the...
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    Best indoor camera for use with Blue Iris

    On another note, I'm in the same boat as the OP. The OEM "Cubes" are not available, just the branded Hikvisions for about 100 bucks from a variety of vendors. Always makes me nervous buying from these unknow 3rd parties even with the Amazon return policies. So my question to this is what...
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    Best indoor camera for use with Blue Iris

    Andy is "Empirecandy", a reseller overseas that many on the forums has used. As for buying Hikvision directly you can always call them up and ask. Otherwise there are sources for their cameras, maybe Andy is one (not sure) he usually is the go to source for Dahua I believe.
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    Quick and Dirty Comparison of: HDW4431C-A V2 HDW4433C-A HDW4631C-A HFW4431R-Z HFW5231R-Z HDW5231R-Z

    Thanks for the pictures, they are helpful. A few suggestions/requests for your post... 1. Maybe add a few descriptive points for each camera so people know what type, format, ptz, etc. 2. If you haven't installed the cameras yet maybe put them outside and do the same side by side comparison...
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    how to separate out IP cameras but still get access to the NVR?

    What is your NVR? A PC? Brand? To do what you are trying to do you'd need to have two LAN ports on your NVR so that you could have one port connected to the switch LAN dedicated to the cameras and the other to the LAN which is Internet facing. You could of course do this virtualized but...
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    Help me finish this new family and apartment setup. Warning long post!

    There's a bunch of good videos on Youtube. Just search :) To get you started, this guy has some helpful and clear tutorials: HomeTech Video (HomeTech Videos)
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    Security Guard Shoots Robbers Holding Up A 7 Eleven With A Fake Gun.. "Am I shot? Oh fck Yeah!

    Obviously this was staged because when the guard shot the perps they didn't fly backwards through the wall behind the counter. Obviously not real bullets! Fake news!
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    My Dad Wants Cameras, help

    Amazon has only one thing going for it now and that's it's return policy. If not for that they'd have lost my business a long time ago. The fact that they refuse to really do anything meaningful about these fake reviews (like allowing you to filter to only "ships and sold by Amazon" or to use...
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    Help me finish this new family and apartment setup. Warning long post!

    Hmm, kind of covered. My point (about static Ips) wasn't just "using" static IPs but to do so in an organized fashion. Ie picking a specific range for them. Not everyone thinks to do this. :)
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    Help me finish this new family and apartment setup. Warning long post!

    First off I never said that "was" the issue. That said if you are not a networking person and you drop a second router on your network and point your devices at it as their gateway.... it's not going to work and you WILL have problems.
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    Day 4 of BI: Time to convert my dad! lol Does hikvision connect to BI?

    One thing to remember... the cameras don't "connect to BI" rather BI connects to the cameras. The cameras sit out there on your network waiting for some authorized user/request to connect to it so it can send it's video stream. Each camera will have 1,2 or 3 (maybe more) "streams" available...
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    Help me finish this new family and apartment setup. Warning long post!

    Another tip, at least how I handle multiple devices. You can pick an ip range, say 192.168.0.150-159 to use just for your IP cameras. I assign static IP's to each camera in that range. This way I just have a better general idea of how to find my cams using IP alone. With DHCP they will...
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    Help me finish this new family and apartment setup. Warning long post!

    Keep in mind that adding a "spare" router to a network that already has a router will likely mean you'll have two routers each trying to provide DHCP and only one working as an actual "gateway" (ie the one that has it's WAN port connected to your cable modem). Just for future reference you...
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