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    PC hardware for Blue Iris with lower noise

    I have a bunch of HPs, and with them it depends on the HDD. Some are crunchier than others, but otherwise they're silent. I have one running 24/7 in the bedroom. You'd never know it was there. We recently had a long discussion of how to load W11 on older machines. If you can't find it...
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    PC hardware for Blue Iris with lower noise

    My hp elitedesk g3 is silent, and it runs W11 just fine. Don't assume your present box won't run W11 just because Big Brother tells you so.
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    Forum technical problems getting bad?

    How to talk to your conspiracy theorist friend... https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2002287-wikihow
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    New here.

    Hartelijk Welkom!
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    Criminal spy camera inside Logitech mouse

    Now I want to build one. You used to be able to get spy cameras built into key fobs on ebay. I bet one of those would fit.
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    Hi there :-)

    Bonjour et bienvenue!
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    Empiretech software?

    For viewing cameras in my house, I use an Ubuntu app called cctv-viewer. There are others like it, including VLC, and a raspberry pi viewer I've seen here, but the name escapes me. These won't do you much good for viewing outside your house unless you setup a vpn with a remote desktop app...
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    Empiretech software?

    Once you get into the camera's settings, you should be able to set a new static ip address.
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    We should have a little contest to find the oldest system capable of running W11. This guy says he runs it on a late XP era machine: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/what-i-learned-from-3-years-of-running-windows-11-on-unsupported-pcs/ I have a 2012 mac mini (now running lubuntu very...
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    Empiretech software?

    I wrote up my experience learning to set up in-camera motion detection. It may save you some time figuring it out. https://ipcamtalk.com/search/6996092/?q=Lessons+learned+setting+Up+IVS+%28June+2023%29&o=date
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    To be fair, the guy in the vid was using a firewall-less setup typical of the time when WinXP was current. With a firewall blocking unsolicited entry into your system, the threat level is much lower. Still, it shows the attackers are relentlessly looking for a way into your system.
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    POE camera installation - how are you guys running wires?

    Rats can be trained to carry pull strings: https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0812/081297.home.home.1.html
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    I dimly recall reading something about the tpm chip giving them some control or access to your computer. The upshot was that it was about security for MS, not the computer owner. I don't know if that was just wild talk, but it made me wary enough to install the non-tpm version of W11 even on...
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    Wow, sounds like that Apple scandal a couple of years ago where they were throttling older equipment through updates, mumbling something about not wanting to overwhelm the older systems with fancy new software. I wonder though, why microsoft, which doesn't produce computers, would go to the...
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    Yes, it updates normally. Absolutely no strange behavior so far. I have it running on my BI machine among others. I considered staying with W10 indefinitely, but the prospect of running an internet-connected computer without security patches frightened me. I saw a video about how fast a...
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    POE camera installation - how are you guys running wires?

    Inside the house, baseboards are your friends. Outside, the expansion joints in concrete sidewalks can be deepened with a diamond disk on an angle grinder. Wooden fences are a great place to mount cameras. The cable can run inside the fence, then back to your garage through the expansion joints.
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    Blue Iris OS Options

    Sorry to chime in kind of late, but I've been running W11 on older, non-tpm machines without a microsoft account for six months or so without problem. I used Rufus (Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way) to download the correct ISO and create a bootable usb stick, and told the Windows...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    Self driving would be a valuable option for any kind of car. As we get older, being able to drive safely becomes one of the biggest challenges to staying independent. I wonder when it will show up on non-electric cars.
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    Auxiliary IR Illuminator for LPR

    On my long list of ideas to try is getting a cheap IR laser off ebay to try as a long distance illuminator for alpr. If you want to try, you have to get the right frequency. The cameras don’t see the whole ir spectrum.
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    It’s the charging station powered by a diesel generator writ large.
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    Help with BI App on iPhone only connecting when on WiFi

    No vpn? I’m just thinking since your BI setup hasn’t changed and you’ve checked your settings, maybe we should be looking at the means of remote connection. Things like expired vpn keys. Any possibility something in between the server and the app on your phone might be awry?
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    Help with BI App on iPhone only connecting when on WiFi

    How do you access remotely?
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    Help with BI App on iPhone only connecting when on WiFi

    I’m guessing the update changed an important setting somewhere. It could also be a coincidence where a security certificate expired. I’m away from my computer for another week, so I am just guessing from memory, but under web server, there are some important settings that could screw you up...
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    Help with BI App on iPhone only connecting when on WiFi

    Is the port set correctly? Maybe give us a screenshot to puzzle over?
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    blue iris for android phone, how to

    Try it w/o vpn first. Start with the simplest setup possible, then get complex. Can you pull up your router gui from your phone? Start with that. If you can, you should be able to see your bi computer connected to the router. If you can’t, you may be on a different ip subnet.
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    Looking for advice/guidance

    Look on ebay for a good used gigabit poe switch. Managed. They go for almost nothing as businesses and governments shed them to get faster units. Even fast ethernet with gigabit uplinks will serve you fine. I see an Alcatel os6450 -p10 on ebay right now for $40 or best offer. Whatever you...
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    Dahua DMSS app does not show all cameras

    When I used dmss, I recall it had a preference for onvif cameras. I had to do some tricks to get my non-onvif door station to display, even though it was a dahua product. I don’t think I ever got it to display off-brand chinese board cameras.
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    Dog wifi camera

    The Dahua dmss lite app is a free download. I was using it while I built my system, and it was ok for live viewing. View remotely via Tailscale? I don’t know if it will work with an amcrest camera, but try it.
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    Pay Attention To Your Surroundings -- January 14, 2025

    Amazing he got a replacement that second year. Maybe a daughter? How do they communicate such a complex idea? “My wife’s gone and my eggs are cooling. Will you come sit on them?”
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    blue iris for android phone, how to

    Have you set up UI3? If so, you should just be able to put the ip address of your BI server in a browser on your phone with the BI port at the end of the ip address, usually port 81. If your BI server ip address were 192.168.1.10, then you’d pull up a browser window on the phone and type in-...
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