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I downloaded it this year, so it's "newish". I'm not sure what the uptime is the BI box, I'd have to look. I suppose that it's possible that it rebooted on its own, but I haven't done it manually. Andrew

Good question. Both are inside, but the RevoTech would get some sun for a shortish time in the afternoon, I suspect. When I get time to mount it in it's final location, it'll be out of the sun. Andrew

I have a Blue Iris system running now for about a month in our family business. All was well . . . until a customer did something bad and I found out two of the cameras had stopped working ("no signal") including one that would have I.D.-ed him. :rolleyes: Both cameras are connected via PoE and...

I find that ZeroTier time-out and disconnects on my iPhone and iPad after some unknown amount of time. I suspect this is just the iOS and not ZeroTier. I just know to turn VPN on in Settings before I launch the BI app. But I'm not wanting live notices from BI. I have a separate security system...

Thanks to everyone who chimed in. I finally had success getting this Revotech i706-POE-HS04MP camera to work correctly with Blue Iris after I changed the codec from the default of H.265 to H.264. Since then, the camera has not dropped the signal. A bit of hassle to troubleshoot, but now it...

For anyone reading later, so far, I've had success with the Revotech i706-POE-HS04MP camera and Blue Iris after I changed the codec from the default of H.265 to H.264. Since then, the camera has not dropped the signal. Finally. What a pain that was! Andrew

Thanks. I had already set the iFrame to the minimum which is 1 second. (You are offered 1-30 seconds.) The signal is still being dropped once every minute or two. One thing that seems to at least help is setting the BI "Time Out Period" for "Detect Loss of Signal" to a very short time instead...

On this Revotech camera I have (just got it in the last few weeks), it's has an iFrame setting, the default is 4 seconds. I changed it to 1 second some days ago, but that doesn't fix the problem. (This camera seems to have all the settings I've seen on, say, Dahua cameras, for instance.) Does...

Thanks. I turned off everything that I didn't need . . . image capture, alarms, FTP, recording, audio. I also have the sub stream set to the lowest resolution and the main stream set to only 10 FPS (and one step down in resolution) and it's still losing signal once or twice every minute. I used...

Would you mind sharing your settings? Here's what I have: substream set to the lowest resolution (352x288), with 15FPS, quality set to "General" (middle quality), max bit set to 512. main stream set to a mid-resolution (not highest) of 1920x1080, also 15 FPS, with quality set to "Best", max...

Thanks, and I might resort to those, though I'm looking for something even smaller and less conspicuous that would be hard to bump if mounted at eye level to a door frame. Andrew

I bought a cheap Revotech mini camera (i706-POE-HS-4MP, roughly 2"x"2) and so far I'm not impressed. The video signal locks up every minute or two and I end up getting a "No Signal" message but then it goes back to working again. $35 experiment, I guess. Unless there's some setting I can tweak...

Did you ever figure this out? I just set up a Revotech i706-POE-HS04MP camera. Cheap, but seems to hang very frequently—every minute or two?—where the image won't move and also periodically gives a loss of signal message... not impressed so far... Andrew

Yes, but I’ll need to get a power source to connect to it. Suggestions? Thanks! Andrew

Yeah, the IR lights don’t come on in the dark. And I know they are getting proper power from the POE switch. ‍♂️ Andrew

I didn't know that was a "thing". I'll need to look into that. Thanks. I suspect these cameras should still default to 192.168.1.108—the standard Dahua default address—since the Q-See DVR must have simply been applying dynamic addresses to all the cameras connected to it . Unless the DVR...

Thanks! "What was the source of these cameras?" They came with our Q-See system (being replaced with BI) and were plug and play. We never set a static IP on them. They were up for about 6-8 years, I suppose. "Did they work before?" Originally yes, later no. "Have you tried powering them up...

I have three Q-See QCN8009D dome cameras. I can't get them to show up on IP scans on the 192.168.1.x range nor .2.x, .3.x, .4.x. They don't show up in the Dahua utility either. They can be jumped on the circuit board to reset them . . . and supposedly, you can unscrew the front half to get into...

Yep, that’s what I just said above. (Thanks for taking the time to go into more detail.) Andrew

Here’s his updated video with a correction: I haven’t convinced myself all his settings are ideal—I have some that are set differently—but maybe his are. But ZeroTier is an excellent solution. Just make sure to set BI to have a delayed start if you set it as to run as a service so ZT has time...

In case in helps anyone, this is important troubleshooting info for anyone running BI as a service and using ZeroTier: https://discuss.zerotier.com/t/accessing-blue-iris-when-running-as-a-service/7362 Setting to BI run as a service can kill remote access through ZeroTier. Setting BI to run with...

I want to make sure I have this set up correctly so my cameras aren't calling China under my nose. :oops: Here's what I've got: Blue Iris on a Windows 11 PC. It's hardwired to the main network router (172.16.blah.blah). It has a SECOND network card (192.168.1.x) that runs to a PoE switch...

Sometimes, it's worth running a new cable. I remember having a fairly long cable that wasn't working. I found what I thought was the probable kink and cut it out and terminated both new ends, leaving two cables. One worked, one didn't. I repeated this process until I had about half a dozen...

Just to be clear, SSD for your main drive and BI database. Purple drive for writing of actual video files. Or at least have your DB on a different drive than your video files. Two drives really at a minimum . . . one OS, the other for video files. You don't want your OS drive to fail from...

What's funny is I didn't even realize that it had a DVD drive until I accidentally pressed the open button when I lifted it to shift the case! LOL! I'll likely jettison it or figure out another way to get another drive into it. Thanks! Andrew

So, here are my dedicated BI computer specs: Dell Inspiron 3670 i7-8700 CPU @ 3.2GHz 16GB RAM Now, I'm really confused. I disconnected everything today since I was going to take it to the shop to see about another computer, but tonight I reconnected everything and triggered 8 cameras at once...

Yes, using substreams . . . hmmm. I should double-check and make sure they are all set up for that. Good point. But even then, tripped, they are all going to be writing full data to the drive, not the substream, right? Good to know that the GPU would be pointless, that was my suspicion. I'll...

So, I'm working on the this new BI system. I'm learning. Eventually, it'll have around 18 cameras . . . for our independent family retail shop. I've got 8 cameras set up now—I'm staging it at home—and if I trip them all at once, the CPU peaks at about 65%. But it will be possible to have a 12...

I found this page: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/163843-how-check-drive-health-smart-status-windows-10-a.html which lists the error codes that you mention. Is it basically just a "no news is good news" kind of thing with the report? For instance, a long as those numbers don't appear when...

Thanks, that crossed my mind, I've been waiting for my local computer shop to bring in another connector cable, until then, I can only have a second drive, not a third, in the case. Oh, and yes: NTFS, no encryption. Andrew