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    Using a camera to monitor temperature.

    Hey guys, just had this idea today and thought I'd share. Its been bitterly cold here in SD the past couple weeks and my furnace has been acting up. (Woke up this morning to a 50* house.) So I had this idea, I have an old thermostat I used to use with a shop furnace laying around so I hooked...
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    Setting up BI to make a phone call.

    Yeah but it only seems like a push notification works if the BI app is currently running on my phone. Which its usually not.
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    Setting up BI to make a phone call.

    Is there away to setup BI to make a phone call via voip without additional hardware and preferably for free? I have one camera I would like to make call me if it detects motion. (Email would work but I have a tenancy to ignore emails for a bit before I notice them) I assume there would be some...
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    I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]

    I guess I'm not sure, but I think most of them are MJPEG
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    I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]

    I have various ones. A couple are Advidia's, a Panasonic, Anran, Netcat, and a couple others I don't recall the brand names of. The only one that plays clips is the Panasonic because I have that one set to encode in H264 because I needed to flip the video in BI. (Camera doesn't give option to)
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    I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]

    It is recording in BVR.
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    I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]

    Just installed this, everything seems to work ok except for playing back clips. The only ones that play back are the ones that were recorded before I set the cameras up to record direct to disk. Any ideas?
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    Dumb question...

    Ok thanks, I will leave it as BVR for now and figure out how to import and play them on my laptop later. I just changed all but one camera to direct to disk and it made a huge difference on cpu usage. Dropped from around 55% to 28-30%
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    Dumb question...

    Is there any real advantage of using BVR format over AVI? I would like to have another computer on the network uploading some footage to a cloud server just in case the BI server was ever stolen. (There have been some shop robberies around here where they took the cameras DVR's while they were...
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    Dumb question...

    Nevermind, I just googled it. Now I know. I will try that out and see what it does. Now I guess I'll have to go turn on the time stamps on all the cameras again. :P
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    Dumb question...

    I've seen that said around here a few times. I assumed they were just referring to recording to a local disk on the computer vs network attached storage? Am I way off?
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    Dumb question...

    Yeah having it set up this way was nice, but as I added a few more cameras it started to take a toll on my CPU usage even with the continuous cameras set to the lowest resolution. (This computer isn't 100% dedicated to BI) I resorted to setting all the cameras to trigger if so much as a ant...
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    Dumb question...

    Thanks again!
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    Dumb question...

    Ok one more thing, I didn't see anything in the camera settings about cloning I'm assuming I would just add the same camera again? Or is there a better way?
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    Dumb question...

    Cool! Thanks for the fast reply!
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    Dumb question...

    Is there any way to set up BI to record continuously, delete old files that don't contain motion and archive the ones with motion? Example.... Record and keep everything from all cameras for a week. And keep a months worth of footage that contains motion.
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    Company vehicle, what do you use?

    Not sure what year range you're thinking but be careful with the 97-2001's with a 5.4 or V10. They liked to blow spark plugs out of the heads.
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    Trouble with PTZ

    Will do. Version 4.2.6.8
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    Useless Pet Posts

    You know I've been trying to figure out how to use a PA setup and a camera to play a recording of me calling for my dog if he left the back yard. He likes to stick around just enough for me to get comfortable with letting him off the leash but when I'm not paying attention he likes to run off.
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    Best body cam for around $150-$200?

    Older GoPro models go for around that on ebay.
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    Company vehicle, what do you use?

    As long as its a Ferociously Overpowered Road Demon you'll love it! :D
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    Hello from the midwest.

    Hello, I've already gotten quite a few answers from here. Running a AMD 6-core PC with Blue Iris (iSpy on another system for backup/troubleshooting) with 6 cameras so far. Looking to expand to 10 or so eventually. This stuff is interesting, already consumed lots and lots of beer and several...
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    New User Help

    You should be ok if its a dedicated setup, if the computer is used for other stuff you may have issues.
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    Do I need virus protection?

    If your running Defender you'll be fine, I've been only running Security Essentials on all my computers for quite some time now and have never had an issue.
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    Trouble with PTZ

    Yes, I have tried every Panasonic option, and yes I do have video. - - - Updated - - - I have been trying to find a script I could edit to the commands I have and load into BI, know of any? I cant find any posted online.
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    Trouble with PTZ

    I have a Panasonic BB-HCM403A I got the PTZ to work in iSpy but not Blue Iris. (iSpy used "BB Series w/ Direct PTZ) I was able to find the command iSpy is there any way I can manually add the commands to BI to make it work? Here is the commands iSpy uses.... <Make Name="Panasonic"...
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