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In the past week I've been able to start setting up my system. Today I installed a WD 8TB Purple hard drive into the computer. When I initialized the drive in Windows 10 Professional, it asked if I wanted to set the partition table to MBR or GPT. Am I correct in assuming GPT is the way to go...

My Blue Iris video feed only refreshes every five seconds even though the camera is outputting 15 fps. Both the Hikvision feed in its management interface and recordings in Blue Iris are playing correctly, just not the live feed into Blue Iris. I have tried various settings, both in BI camera...

To slowly work my way into building a Blue Iris system that will ultimately have more than a dozen cameras, I would like to get started by purchasing a small number of cams. Is there anything wrong with purchasing Hikvision off of Amazon? The following camera, DS-2CD2042WD-I, appeals to me, both...

Just received my Optiplex 7040 and am in the process of configuring it for Blue Iris. Does Blue Iris require an Administrator account, or can I set it up under a Standard user account? Note that I am using Windows 10 Professional. Also wondering...should I omit antivirus from this machine? It...

Just now comparing cameras for my forthcoming system. 1) Is there any reason to consider Dahua over Hikvision? Is there any reason to look at other brands? 2) As far as style goes, should I try to exclusively use turret cameras if I intend to employ motion detection, or should I consider...

For a system running, say, twenty 3MP cams @ 5 FPS (average, may go up or down on both specs for some cams), is there going to be a major difference between running an i7-6700 and an i7-6700T? How about internal vs external HDD for storage? Right now I'm trying to decide between Dell's latest...

I am slowly making my way towards setting up a 16 - 20 camera IP-based system, with most cable runs around 50 - 100'. Does it matter what kind of cable I get? Amazon has a few well-rated Cat5e options for only $50 or so for a 1,000' spool. There's no reason to get Cat6, is there? By the same...

As I have been testing out the BI trial for the past few days, I added some public h.264 camera feeds to the software. When I tried to lower the frame rate in BI, the status monitor still shows the original frame rate. It happened for multiple cameras. Is this normal? Should frame rate be set in...

Should I be looking at brands other than Hikvision or Dahua? This will be for a 20+ camera Blue Iris system that will be replacing a relatively poor 16-camera analog Honeywell DVR system that is about five years old. I'm trying to keep the cost per camera to $100 or less, if not $75 or less. But...

I am currently working on putting together a 20+ camera Blue Iris system, and I am wondering if I should be looking at specific PoE switches. I am also inclined to use two or three smaller switches rather than one big switch because our facility is nearly 400' wide and 260' deep. Is there...

What type of hard drive should I purchase for my system's video storage? This will be for a Blue Iris system. I will likely be getting an 8TB drive in order to keep a month of data. In the 8TB world, there seems to be only two options: Seagate Archive @ $240 WD Red @ $320 The cost difference...

I am not a networking expert, but I am slowly learning. Is there any way to separate the LAN of Blue Iris cameras from the rest of the office LAN? In other words, can the switch that connects to all of the cameras go into one LAN port on the BI computer, and then the port from an additional NIC...

I am in the process of picking out or building a surveillance system to monitor a 100,000 SF commercial facility. Blue Iris is one of the possible routes I could go. The new system will replace a preexisting 16-channel analog DVR system, which does not work very well because of the...

Hello! After spending a few days reading through some threads, it is time that I post about my project. I am in charge of putting together an IP-based surveillance system to replace a low-resolution, 16-camera analog system. We will for sure be doing 18 cameras, but I cannot imagine doing more...