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I'm pretty sure this started happening with the new mobile app. It started vibrating my phone with no sound. I fussed around with the in-app settings as well as the Android notification settings with no luck. There were two "Motion Alerts" categories in Android. I made sure to set it to a...

Took about 15 minutes for Windows to update. Then after it rebooted I was greeted with this. Now I have to try to find my license key. Anyone else experienced this?

I have BI running on my main Optiplex machine. A few days ago a spare Dell i7 laptop was given to me. Currently I'm not re-compressing any of my clips for archival purpose due to the intense processing power, but I would like to start doing that so I can keep certain camera clips for months at...

Unlike many other apps, The Android BI app doesn't automatically clear the push notification after you've viewed a clip. I have to view the clip and then clear the notification manually each time. Is there a setting I'm missing or that's just how it works?

Let's say I want to buy a fixed lens camera that can cover a particular section outside my house. I want it to be very specific like from edge to edge of my property lines, very minimal to no skies. What tool can I use so I know exactly what lens characters to look for when shopping for a...

I have two sessions of Chrome Tab casting active on my BI server. Over the last few days I noticed my CPU usage was way above normal. Chrome would be using around 25% and BI would be using around 65%. I followed every advice in the Optimizing Blue Iris CPU Usage to no avail. Then just now I...

I have a Dell Optiplex 990 with a i7-2600 processor. According to Intel it has the Quick Sync feature. I have 16 cameras in BI and no matter if I turn on or off Intel hardware acceleration I'm getting no difference in CPU usage. Most of my cameras are H.264 and all of them are saved direct to...

Any drawbacks to setting up a cam like this? It displays fine in Blue Iris.

I have two Dahua IPC-HDW4431C-A cameras. Camera 1 I bought from Aliexpress, and Camera 2 I bought from Amazon. Camera 2 is newer (V2 and has a later firmware). However, Camera 2, even though has the same setup as Camera 1, has almost 3x more bit rate as Camera 1. I cannot for the life of me...

I have a 4TB (Internal) and two 3TB drives (via USB) for BI. I set up each of the drive as New, Stored, and Archive. The OS is running on its own SSD drive. As the drives fill up BI is constantly moving files from one drive to another, thus affecting playback performance if the clip being...

I used to be able to consistently fast forward my video at 32x or 64x (or even faster) and it didn't skip a frame. But lately I'm getting a lot of skipped frames when I fast forward, sometimes I only get a frame once every minute or a few minutes, and overall even opening clips or playing clips...

Over the last few days my BI server has been locking up intermittently, the web server would crash and clicking on things sometimes takes a while to respond. My drives are not running out of space and clips aren't missing as far as I can tell. I've rebooted the PC a few times, ran chkdsk...

I have 12 cameras, all set up with motion detection and continuous recording. However, one of the camera's border keeps flashing yellow. I understand it flashes yellow when PTZ is enabled and motion detection is paused. But this camera is a fixed bullet camera and I've already disabled PTZ...

These two suspicious users popped up in my status today. Is this something I have to worry about? I have a pretty strong password and a custom port already.

I have 4 older QCN7001B 1.2MP cameras that came with my Q-See NVR system a few years back. They are as far as I know just rebranded Dahua cameras. One of the features I wish it has is wide dynamic range. Does anyone know if there's any Dahua firmware out there that can give me that...

I installed 4.5.8.0 yesterday and was having a lot of issues opening alert clips. Kept getting the black screen with "unable to open clip" error. Soon after BI would crash and I'd need to kill it in task manager. I rolled it back to 4.5.7.4 and the problem immediately went away. Just...

Got this no name 960P cam from Aliexpress last year. IP Camera PoE 720P/960P/1080P(SONY IMX322) 25fps Anti Vandal Dome Camera IP Outdoor Indoor Vandalproof ONVIF 2.0 48V PoE CCTV-in Surveillance Cameras from Security & Protection on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group Today, during the heatwave in...

Lately Chromecast tab casting has been acting up and the image on my TV would freeze once in a while. That got me thinking, it would be nice to be able to add an animated spinning logo on one of the camera feeds so I know if the feed is live or not from a distance. I tried the overlay option...

I have two Chromecasts connected to two TVs streaming camera feed from Blue Iris. Starting around a few days ago both Chromecasts would lose connection at the same time about twice a day, and every time required a re-casting. During that time, I also lose connection to the Internet and all of...

It used to be (a few months back) when I restart a camera the color bars would only show up for a few seconds before the camera picture shows. Now it's taking minutes to do the same thing. Anyone else seeing the same issue?

I have 3 POE cameras plugged into a Rosewill POE switch (model RGS-108P). It had been working fine for about 7 months but a few days ago 2 of the 3 cameras started to fall of the network about every few hours. Restarting the switch would fix the issue, for another few hours. None of the other...

I have two small TVs located in my house, with a Chromecast plugged into each one of them. I also have two sessions of Chrome running on my BI server and each cast a web page to the two TVs. What would be really nice is to have alert sounds emitted in Chrome and thus to my two TVs so I know...

I'm just curious about how this works... When Windows syncs with the NTP server to adjust the time, what happens to the recordings within the duration of the adjustment? I know Windows 10 syncs its time on a weekly basis, and my machine can sometimes be off by almost 1 minute. What happens to...

I'm currently using outlook.com as my smtp host and occasionally I'd get an email blocked message because I exceed the daily smtp sending limits. What hosts do you guys use? Which ones have the highest daily smtp limit?

I bought these blinking non-LED icicle lights from Wal-Mart. The ones with a red-tipped flashing bulb located every few feet apart. I hung them around the house, but I noticed some sections do not blink. What could be wrong? The red-tipped bulbs are not burned out, they stay lit.

Is there any way to encrypt the footage stored by Blue Iris so unauthorized personnel cannot access the footage even if the entire server is stolen? I have a SSD, and two 3TB drives in my setup. Is full disk encryption or bitlocker an option here?

I just received my Dahua IPC-HDW4431C-A with 2.8mm lens from Aliexpress. Everything is awesome about the camera, but I notice the image gets slightly more blurry the closer it is to the bottom right corner. I tried refocusing the lens but didn't help. It is very minor and probably won't be...

In the timeline view, is it possible to pick and choose which camera(s) you wish to play in sync? It seems you can either have them all in sync or one at a time. Thoughts?

I have a camera with several zones set up with zone crossing detection enabled. If I walk, stop for couple seconds (just enough for the green object rectangle to disappear), then walk again, then stop, I'm able to disable to zone crossing detection. I tried increasing the Make time from 5...