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Here's the situation. We want to monitor the front of 3 full height server racks to keep an eye for warning lights. Camera will be roughly 65" from the racks. From that distance, we'd like to see 72" wide and 76" tall. I'm sure there is a way to calculate what lens would work best, but its...

I need a mini dome camera for wall or ceiling mount in a closet used to store some secured valuables (something unobtrusive, perhaps even a recessed camera if that's an option). We had a camera disguised in a box, but its time to replace that. Any suggestions? Must be POE, of course.

I've been running Deepstack with BlueIris for a month or so and have found it to be very effective. Does Deepstack or BI download DS updates on its own, or is there a process I should be going through myself?

Long time BI user and I recently setup a new install in my office. It was working fine for a few weeks, but recently it won't allow access to UI3 from within the office LAN except for the desktop that BI is running on. I've exhausted my diagnostic options and cannot track it down. I can ping...

We've got a old grandfather clock that's been malfunctioning. The repair person has asked us to record it on the hour for a few days. I have a spare camera (plenty of old ones :rolleyes:), so I'm thinking I would have to override the camera's global schedule and paint in 5 minutes before to 5...

I've been playing with motion for a camera that I use motion between zones to trigger alerts. This is by my front door, and the camera is fairly close to the objects (20-30 feet), so with 3 zones defined cars typically are longer than any zone is wide. I think this makes edge vector less...

I want to install a second camera by my front door behind an interior window. It provides a clear line of sight, and while I'm aware that mounting inside isn't ideal its my only option. I've tested with an old Amcrest camera and the location works, no issue with reflections (won't use camera IR...

I'm running BI 5.2.7.12 and recently went to adjust some motion settings by screening out some leaves on a tree. When I turn on the test run through motion option in the UI, if I open a clip the UI randomly crashes more times than not when it tries to play the clip. I've been using BI for many...

I noticed that the Cancel Shadows feature is listed as deprecated. Anyone know what it was replaced or outdated by?

I keep seeing this message in my log file (running 5.0.6.7 x64). I've tried manually compacting, rebuild, even deleted the database folder and had it rebuild. Should I just ignore, or is this somethign I need to track down? I use windows defender, and it excludes all the BI directories on...

What do you use for your streaming profile settings (I assume they are used both for the web interface and mobile apps)? I've tried various settings but still get some choppiness and irregularities. My CPU never gets busy, so I think its more of a settings issue.

I just setup one camera with 3 non-overlapping zones and am using object movement (A-B, A-C, B-C) between any 2 zones to trigger recording. I'm not sure how "make time" applies here, if I'm set to 1.0 second, do I need 1 second of motion moving between zones, or in each zone, or something else??

I installed a Dahua camera on cedar clapboards using a PFB203W waterproof bracket. Make a 3/8" hole to get cable out and then put plumbers putty in the hole to seal it. Just screwed the mounting plate to clapboards, and then mounted the bracket to the plate, no caulking. Was that a mistake...

I recently installed my first Dahua turret (a 5231) and tried using it with the IR emitters at night. Works amazing, except that I cannot find settings that aren't motion triggered in rain. It looks like rain falling near the lens (highlighted by IR light) is enough to set it off. Any...

Long time user and I'm working on tweaking a camera setup, but I seem to have confused myself with the test run feature. When I run a video through test run it starts highlighting motion with a green box and it eventually becomes a red box (both boxes around moving objects), at which point the...

I am mounting an eyeball Dahua camera by my garage. It will be about 8' high, roughly 2 feet below a twin floodlight fixture (76w halogen bulbs, could switch them to LED but have not). Trying to decide if I should go with a 2mp starlight camera, or a higher resolution non-starlight (only...

Purchased my first Dahua, an IPC-HDW4231EMP-ASE. I found the Dahua config tool, and connection the camera to POE ethernet. But I cannot find the camera on the network. First, i don't see a power light on the camera, am I missing something? Second, is there a way to find the camera other...

We've had an issue in my office with the cleaners regularly setting off the front door alarm. I use Blue Iris at home very successfully, but don't want to do that at the office. Just looking for a dome camera that we can mount on a ceiling tile and point towards the front door. We already...

I run BI 4.7.4.3 on an i7-4770 with 16 gb memory, SSD and 1tb hard drive (retired desktop from work, it was free!), with 20mb of cameras (7 total). I tried experimenting with QS/HA on 1 camera (Amcrest 4mb, POE), and it seemed to crash the connection, I would get frequent no signals in the...

Do I just copy the clips from my old system's New and Storage folders over to the new machines folders, and then let the database rebuild?

I have 7 cameras, a total of 16mp of video. Currently run BI4 on an old i7-940 and while it runs great (stays at 10-20% CPU), I know its an energy hog. I can get a free i7-4770 with 8gb of memory (getting retired in my office). I think this would support H264 decoding on the motherboard, and...

Running 4.6.4.6 x64, Intel i7 930 with 7 cameras ranging from a 0.9mp to 3.0mp. CPU runs around 10%. Last night we lost power, but all cameras are on UPS and generator came on line within a minute. Apparently one camera's UPS failed, so it did lose power for a minute or so. Here's the odd...

I signed up for annual support last year but I just don't use it. And I don't do upgrades, since there aren't any changes that are of interest to me. Is there a development plan posted anywhere for this app? On a related note, I tried to cancel my auto-renew for support (I don';t like...

I have a HAD camera by my pool that I record with motion. I've also setup a clone of the Cabrera to record continuously. However it seems to consume a ton of disk space with continuous record. Is there a way to reduce the file size by changing storage settings? It's fine if the video quality drops.

I can buy a used 9010 desktop with 16gb of memory for $100 (no hard drive or OK) from my employer. It has an i7-3770 processor. Intel site says it supports Quick Sync video. Does anyone know if this would be a power efficient platform? I've been using a Dell studio desktop which is an older...

I am running the Android app v2.0.26 and BI 4.2.9.3. I want to save one of the video clips on the Android app, and I've pressed the movie button and it turns red,. but can't find the slip. I also can't find any help in the help file on this. Help?

I am running 4.2.8.6 on Windows 10 x64 and noticed that BI is no longer prompting me to load updates. I tried rebooting but nothing changed. I checked and the setting to prompt to load updates is checked. Am I missing something?

I am still running a month old 64-but version, but have been eyeing the latest update with revised motion settings. I'm looking for some feedback and recommendations about the motion settings, so I can decide whether its worth installing now. My only complaint with the existing motion detection...

I innocently changed the short name used by one camera and discovered after that this impacts the display of videos through the app. So I used a global rename tool to change the old video clip file names to reflect the change. Then I did a database rebuild. Now all the old clips show up in...

I have an older i7 930 processor, supporting seven cameras (2 HD, 2 SD, 3 VGA). Processor usage runs 10-17%, and memory use stays well under 1gb. Last week my hard drive started to throw errors, so I looked into replacements and selected a 1tb Crucial SSD drive (the one generation old M500...