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First a little background, just recently purchased a new home and in the process of reinstalling everything. Previous home, I had Fiber to the Home, my new home I am forced to use a fixed wireless provider (Windstream). My old setup was working flawlessly using Open VPN on an Asus router. New...

Anyone had any recent lucked getting the Wzye Cam v3 or similar to work with BI? I'm using all Dahua cams outside and a couple of Amcrest IP2M-841's inside for monitoring the pets. Was hoping for something a little more discrete indoors. Wyze physically would look better but I've read lots of...

I have several Dahua camera outside my home and a couple indoors. I'm looking to add a Wifi based camera that can be moved around my home for keeping tabs on my dogs when away. For this reason, I'm not as concerned with video quality or night vision. Looking for something that will work with...

Can anyone tell me how to get my playback controls and video clips back on the left side of the screen? Not sure what changed but I logged in today and can see the live view but can't change the calendar or see any of my video clips that are usually on the left side of the screen.

I'm currently running a 6 Dahua Cameras and recording to a dedicated BI PC in my home. I'm concerned about the possible theft of the BI PC if I were robbed and would like to somehow back up the video in real time. I have a Synology NAS on the same network but have read that its not recommended...

Question for the network guru's. My Asus RT-AC1900P appears to have died. It was setup behind an AT&T Modem so that I could use the VPN functionality of the RT-AC1900P. I also have a Synology DS218+ that has a built-in VPN Server. Part of the setup on the Synology requires that I forward a...

Not sure what happened but suddenly I couldn't access the BI Web server from anything but the host computer. I added an exception for Port 81 in Windows Defender and it now works. Is this safe or should I accomplish this some other way?

I have a IPC-HDW5231R-Z that has been damaged. The glass was impacted and shattered in the housing. Everything still works but isn't waterproof. I have since removed the camera and cleaned out the old glass. Does anyone know where I can find a replacement glass, best I can tell it measures...

It appears my OpenVPN app on my iPhone and Ipad have both updated in the past 2 weeks. It still has my profile saved but it fails to connect. I tried deleting it and adding it back but still no luck. Anyone been through this recently?

I have a couple of the IPC-HDBW4231F-AS Wedge Dome's inside my home. On is really slow to change back from night mode to color. Both cameras are setup the same, any recommendations on what settings I need to adjust to keep the in day mode longer and get it to swap back to color quicker once...

I need to install a couple of cameras that will be approximately 400' from the NVR. I already plan on purchasing the ePOE Cameras but my NVR isn't ePOE compliant. Do I need do to do anything else or should this work? I plan to use the DH-IPC-HFW5231E-Z5E cameras.

I just purchased a T-mobile branded Asus AC1900 router to replace my ~10 year old router and setup a VPN. As I understand it this is the same unit as the Asus just re-branded, should I flash the firmware to standard Asus or Merlin before I even start? My end goal is to have a secure network...

When adding another camera to my Dahua NVR I receive a message "Please Initialize the Device". All of the other cameras I have setup were plug n play. This is a brand new camera from Andy, I tried to reset the password just in case but still can't get it to work. The NVR obviously sees the...

I just purchased a NVR5216-16P-4KS2 for use with ~8 Dahua cameras. My previous experience has been with a netgear swich and BI. Do I just plug all the cameras into the NVR and power it on or do I need to reconfigure each camera one at a time with a new IP before connecting it to the NVR? The...

Looking for options to mount a couple of Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) on a 6x6 post mounted outdoors. Wanted to use the PFB203 mounts but it doesn't appear they have a method of running conduit into them. Does anyone have examples of how they have installed a similar situation? Post is...

I have recently purchased a couple of Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) for outdoors and a couple of Mini Wedge (IPC-HDBW4231F-AS) that I am installing in my home using BI for the NVR. It seems once they switch to night vision they tend to stay there regardless of the light settings. For...

Looking to install BI on a spare PC while I get everything up and running. I've read through the BI Hardware thread which offers lots of great information. I'd like to use my AMD FX-8350 8GB Ram until I finish installing my cameras at which time I'll upgrade the PC to something in the i5/7...

Been a long time lurker here for sometime now studying which cameras to purchase. Going to be using the Varifocal Turret (IPC-HDW5231R-Z) outdoors over the driveway and back yard. Awaiting the arrival of the first one now from Andy. Need some help on the indoor cameras, need something low...

Hello Everyone, New guy here from the Memphis, TN area. I have no prior experience with cameras but used to work in the cable TV industry and 9 years maintaining a large computer network. So i'm pretty good with running cabling and terminating Cat5e! I am looking to install a couple cameras...