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    Blue Iris on unRAID Windows VM - to cache or not to cache?

    What do you consider the output, the saved video? Cache and the array are a waste for this. Instead, you are better served using an unassigned device. This keeps it independent of unraid. Otherwise, your protected pool and parity will go crazy always spinning up disks and your cache disk...
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    screwed up my installation a little

    I love this place. While I continue to play and wait for my BI machine to arrive, I continue to look and wonder what is next is my surveillance journey. And while I tell myself the next cameras will be at the garage door, I may first replace the one at the front door. Pondering this guy...
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    Deciding on a "workstation"

    Odd, I thought the elite desk has room for 2 3.5 and a 2 5. Seems all the looking I did was wrong.
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    ready to buy

    excellent. I was not aware that you can target drives per camera. That's great info and makes more sense for getting the one with 2 drive bays.
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    ready to buy

    true. OK last question. HDD. I know we can go 4, 6, 8, 10, 12TB etc. In this case, what is common practice? A single large drive or multiple drives spanned together for an even larger disk pool? Looking at 2 machines, one has 1 3.5 drive space and the other has 2, trying to decide if I...
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    ready to buy

    ok cool, thanks for that, guess I can save me some 24$ getting the machine with 8GB then vs over sizing with 16GB
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    ready to buy

    I know there has been some memory discussions, but would 16gb memory benefit a smaller system over 8gb? Smaller being 10 cameras?
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    Ezviz doorbell and transformer

    I do. I did end up getting a 16/30 one. I was looking and as it was a common one for Ring, and mentioned in the above thread, I ordered it and tried. Installed and everything is working so far.
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    ready to buy

    Makes sense. Probably don't need a 5442 in the garage, but maybe in front of it I do.
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    ready to buy

    Agreed, that's what I have, 5442 and in some testing, with camera in the basement, vbr was crap. Switched back to cbr and things immediately cleared up. Curious, off topic, but you mention 2mp cameras. Where do these have a place when going against something like the 5442. Is it a cost thing...
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    ready to buy

    Perhaps. I know simply looking at live view with vbr the image is pretty bad/disappointing, so CBR it is. I am sure i will figure it out as I go and make the tweaks where necessary. I tell my neighbors their blink systems are meh, so yeah, just want to do it right.
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    ready to buy

    I guess I just wasnt sure about the quality of the recordings during downtimes. Do I technically need a full resolution image of my bushes and flowers and empty driveway. Not that it is bad, but my assumption was that there would be lower quality footage of something static and when there is...
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    ready to buy

    hmm. OK. I know I saw some stuff that said 8TB (maybe 4TB) is good for 30 days. If that is full resolution, then I am OK with that actually. I guess once I get a system I can play and figure it out.
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    ready to buy

    ah, gotcha. I thought I read/heard there was a way to record the low quality stream when nothing is happening. it was on a selfhosted podcast.
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    ready to buy

    ah, so the substream while you can view it on the screens is not technically recording. and recording only happens when it detect movement, records the iframe bit and then full res. After that it reverts to substream and not recording 24/7
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    ready to buy

    I think I mixed up my 4k with 4MP. This is the very camera I have.
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    Deciding on a "workstation"

    Did the machine come? Did you get it loaded? How is it working out for you. I am looking at a similar camera count and same system, just curious if it time for me too to pull the trigger. thanks
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    ready to buy

    thanks. I guess that's one bit that is misleading. My plan was to go 24/7, but i assume not recording 4k all the time, which is the reason for the substream. It sits, recording a lower quality image and then ups the quality when needed. However, this might be a misunderstanding on my part...
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    ready to buy

    So, I finally got my first main camera in and also added an ezviz doorbell cam to round out the front door view. But a camera is crap without any history, so I need to get BI and for BI a system to run it. I am eyeing a system with an i5-6500 and 8GB ram, hp z240. Looking at the sizing guide...
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    Blue Iris Live View Different From Recorded View For 4K Camera

    why is that grass so much greener than the tree lawn? Is it turf?
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    Ryzen 3950x for Blue Iris

    How are you running blue iris in docker if blue iris runs on windows?
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    Ezviz doorbell and transformer

    At nearly 300 posts there are many mentioned there. Of those, many say try this or that. Was really hoping there was more of a science to it that spray and pray.
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    Ezviz doorbell and transformer

    Saw the price drop on the ezviz and want to pick one up. Is there a recommended transformer? From what I read, mine is not supported as it's only 10v
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    screwed up my installation a little

    I'll ask the wife....
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    screwed up my installation a little

    Curious here what is considered more important, seeing someone standing at the door or approaching the door? I can angle more left or more right with some zoom action
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    screwed up my installation a little

    He honey, we have to lose the flowers, their f-ing with our cameras night vision.
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    screwed up my installation a little

    @handinpalm Thanks for the idea of rotating the camera, Still room to play and tweak, but hats a total game changer for sure. It toally changes the view, thats freaking awesome. While I took it off, I messed with the zoom a bit too. Who would have thought, this stuff is fun as hell.
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    screwed up my installation a little

    Was using shinobi just to get set up. Plan to find a suitable BI box this weekend and then the real fun begins. I'm actually excited about the thought of rotating the camera 90 degree as my point of view is higher than it is wide. This was not something I even considered, so that's sweet!
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    screwed up my installation a little

    Haha, it was already white on white. WAF is a contributing factor in installing more cameras.
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    screwed up my installation a little

    I'm learning, future cameras will get this treatment. Luckily this issue doesn't seem unfixable or as bad as it seemed when originally looking at the footage.
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