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Yeah, it usually uses sub stream when viewing all of them at once since they are small, but one I select one and it takes up the full viewport, it normally goes to high quality but recently it stays sub stream quality.

I also noticed recently I have been unable to view the main stream. I only see the sub stream (low quality) even when solo viewing a single cam.

Thank you! Just setting the PVID to 5 for that port (no VLANID) put it on to the desired VLAN I wanted.

Hi, I thought it would be possible to plug my desktop into ETH4 and have it setup as a VLAN, but I've failed doing that for the last couple of hours. I finally get internet working through ETH4 but my IP is in the 192.168.1.1/24 range which is the switch0's IP range. My understanding was the...

Thank you! I'll give it a read.

Ohhh yeah that sounds like a real headache. I'd like to avoid that!

Will do, thanks! I may need to do some tinkering with the DHCP server for the range but I think I can do that without issue.

Roger that. Thanks for the tip! I'll make sure to leave them as static and I'll set them on a range that can't be used.

Just curious why that is? They will be on a VLAN that drops all traffic to the internet/network with the blue iris rig as an exception. That was my plan, anyway.

Yep, I'm going one step at a time. Next up I will try and see if I can make the device get assigned its IP over DHCP otherwise I can set a static IP for it on 192.168.20.x. But basically I'm in the middle of fixing how my whole network will work.

Yep, I disconnected WiFi. Although the cam is still connected to the switch (as I don't have anything to power it without the PoE). It's working nicely now. Thanks for your help! Now I just need to figure out how to focus it... haha.

Considered that but don't know how to power it without PoE Yep, just did that! I tried the switch's IP and it didn't work, so I tried setting it to something on the 192.168.1.x network and pinged the camera. Going to run ConfigTool now. Thanks for your help!

WiFi connects on 192.168.20.x. Router divies out 192.168.1.x, 192.168.10.x, and 192.168.20.x depending on how devices are connected. I opened command prompt and ran arp -a which showed what I believe is the network interface of my WiFi and of my switch. Listed under the switch is...

Hi, I just picked up an EmpireTech IPC-T5442T-ZE from Amazon. I have BlueIris freshly installed on my PC (it is an iMac running Windows 10). I have connected my (unmanaged) NETGEAR GS108LP into the PC via Ethernet. (It is connected to WiFi for internet.) I have a cat5e cable (temporary)...

Oh right, so it's BI machine -> switches -> cams. Got it! Thanks a lot. Yeah, I think I'll do that sometime in the future.

I'm pretty new to setting up a network like this so I'm sure I've messed some things up. Right now, I have the ERX, two GS305E's and my Unifi 6 Lite WAP. Attached is what I'm thinking for the GS116p/GS308p. I think your idea about splitting it into two 8 port switches is a good idea, although...

Would it be a massive bottleneck to plug this Netgear Prosafe GS116PP 16 Port switch into one of my Netgear GS305E switches?

Thank you! You're right! Good pickup!! I'll keep looking for another one. If I can't find a 16 port model that powers cams without fans, I'll go for one 8 port model.

Great. VLAN is setup on the Router and the switches are configured to operate on those VLANs already. Ah well that's good because apparently Thunderbolt is just like connecting directly to the PCI-E slot.

Right, that makes sense. I'd rather not unnecessary load the router so I'll definitely connect it directly to the PC then. I can isolate the cams from the internet by plugging the cam switch into my managed netgear switch which is cut off from the internet and doesn't allow local traffic...

Thanks for the help! Right, so the switch does indeed need to connect directly to the PC running Blue Iris? It isn't enough that both the PC and switch are connected to the router? So my network setup right now is one Edge Router X with two 4-port Managed Netgear switches. My first switch has...

Thanks! I read through a number of pages and checked out the doc. Good to know! I'm also considering this one as it has 16 ports and is still fanless: https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/networking/switches/87993-es-18x I have a question regarding connecting it up: Does the switch need to...

I'm looking at getting this switch to plug into my system: https://www.pccasegear.com/products/54051/tp-link-8-port-3-port-gigabit-desktop-switch-with-8-port-poe Does that look suitable? I don't know anything about switch requirements for cams. Alternatively there is this one which is close to...

Good to know, thank you!

Thanks everyone. I'm actually considering re-using an existing 27" 2013 iMac (i5 4670 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM) for BlueIris to save costs. I believe the integrated graphics on the i5 4670 don't do x265. Would recording from 8 cams @ 4mp in x265 mode crush this CPU without hardware acceleration?

I see. For each switch I have set one port to 'T' which connects to the router. Right, that makes sense. I'll see how the router handles things once I've got the cams setup later, happy to update my setup if needed. I'm getting something wrong. As soon as I enable VLAN on the Switch it stops...

I just realised that my VLAN settings for Switch 2 did not apply which may explain why it was able to be pinged. PVID 10 for all the ports on Switch 1. So I enabled tagging on the 5th port on Switch 1 (this connects to ER-X) -- I thought this was trunking... am I mistaken? I thought by using...

Good idea! I've backed up the configuration and I'm trying to restore it now onto Switch 1.

No, I was unable to ping it. I'm about to attempt resetting to factory defaults. I'll then try to set it up again like I did with switch 2 because that one didn't have the problem.

Hi, I have just made the switch from my consumer router to the EdgeRouter X + 2x GS305E netgear switches. I used the wizard to setup WAN+2LAN2 and replaced default user with new admin, enabled offloading for hwnat. I'm still learning about this stuff but have been following a lot of advice here...