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Agreed that an IP cam system would be ideal. He recently invested in the DVR and he has about a dozen analog cameras with cabling passing through various conduits and junctions. I'm just going to put some band-aids on the wounds, but you make a great point: a 5MP band-aid is much better than...

I'm helping a friend with some camera issues that have arisen at his property. He has a Bolide DVR that displays feeds from various analog cameras, most of which are (or are similar to) this 5MP from DIgital Watchdog. Two cameras on the property are not putting out a crisp image. The cameras are...

Thanks. That didn't seem to fix it. But I think something else did: Video > Configure > Decoder Compatibility Mode And I set the max FPS to 20 in case the extra RAM might help. Do you think that is worth doing?

I have two AD110 doorbells, both of which I have been viewing through Home Assistant directly via RTSP. They both record to SD cards well, and my RTSP stream has been stable in HA. However, I've recently added them to BI, where I get very frequent flashes of green pixelation. I have replaced my...

I see. Thank you for the details. If I run into any similar issues it's very useful to know there is a possible solution.

Thank you. I do have two Amcrest AD110 doorbells and I'm streaming the video feeds to my BI and my HA. If it seems that I'd benefit from running rtsp-simple-server I'll give it a shot. I've dabbled with CLI and am fairly comfortable. Thank you for mentioning it. I wasn't aware of its existence...

Thanks for the response. It looks like I'll be fine with option 1 then. That's good news.

More specifically, my concerns are to alleviate strain on my router and on my PC's NIC. My UDM Pro's memory usage is already in the mid-60 percentage and CPU load is low 40s, and I have four more cameras to add, plus I'm rarely home these days and overall usage is low at the moment. So as much...

I'll move it. Thanks.

Thank you for touching upon this NIC issue. I started another thread about this topic last night, coincidentally.

I'm setting up Blue Iris on a new 11th gen i7. I'm using the same PC to host a VirtualBox VM of Home Assistant with Bridged Adapter network settings (sharing the ethernet adapter on the PC). I intend to stream some camera feeds to Home Assistant dashboards (currently using RTSP urls for this)...

I've added a few Amcrest IP8M-T2599 POE turrets to BI. I always select rtsp and proceed with the IP, etc. I'd never even considered the possibility of trying http, and today I noticed when logging in to one of the cameras that the cameras apparently support https(?) So, now I'm wondering which...

I'm going to spend some time learning the ins and outs of BI once I've moved into my new PC. I have a lot to learn. That's an interesting concept, to keep high-resource settings on some cams and counteract with low fps on less-vital cams. If you're capturing at 8FPS and a fast-moving object...

Thanks for the quick response. My i5-2500 is not holding up well even with one 8MP and five 1080P, so I'm aiming high. Granted, that i5 doesn't have hyperthreading, and it's running my HA on VirtualBox, so I'm asking a lot of it. So, that Dell i7-11700 with 32GB should allow me to confidently...

I am looking for a computer to run BI and DeepStack. Here are my cameras: 7 Amcrest IP8M-T2599EW 8MP PoE turrets 2 Amcrest AD110 1080P doorbells and maybe 2 or 3 Wansview Q6-W 1080P wifi cams I would like to have the cameras all record substreams 24/7 with mainstream activation (with sound...

HA is running in a VirtualBox on the BI computer. I'm very privacy-focused and I'm not a fan of the usual suspects that one would buy on Amazon. No Alexa for me, to say the least. However, I have been tinkering with some ESP32 microcontrollers to build my own PIR sensors and such. If those are...

If I put the cameras on their own network, can I (how would I) access the feed via Home Assistant on a separate network?

Thank you for the replies. My current router is an Asus 86U and 2.4ghz is not its strong suit. I haven't yet purchased any security cameras for the exterior but I have been leaning toward the Amcrest ASH42-B-V2 because my house is not wired with ethernet. The house is stucco, and the interior...

I have BI recording some Wansview Q6 WiFi cameras and an Amcrest AD110 via RTSP. I also have RTSP feeds for those cameras integrated into my Home Assistant dashboard (snapshots refresh every few seconds, per the HA default). My Wansview cameras seem to reset quite often, and I wonder whether...