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  1. bp2008

    Thoughts on this walkway location - First Camera

    Consider that plant too with regard to camera positioning. If it grows much higher it may block a camera's view or otherwise affect its image quality with strong IR reflection.
  2. bp2008

    Switching from VPN to Port Forwarding.

    Good question. Nothing is perfect, but I'd still trust OpenVPN with weak configuration far more than I'd trust the P2P option. With the P2P route, you are letting your NVR connect to someone else's servers and you can't know what kind of risks that opens you up to. There could be...
  3. bp2008

    Upgrading from BI 4.8.6.3 on Win7 to BI 5.x on Win10

    The cleanest path is certainly to start over from scratch with new configuration. Like just the other day I ended up deleting and re-creating one of my cameras because it was the only way to make its video not freeze when I had audio support enabled for the camera.
  4. bp2008

    Switching from VPN to Port Forwarding.

    It is unclear to me if updating firmware will help. Asus's website says: That is higher than anything available for RT-AC86U so you can't use wireguard on it even if you update. Whether an update would help with the OpenVPN situation or not, I have no idea. Maybe that would give you a new...
  5. bp2008

    Switching from VPN to Port Forwarding.

    I really don't know what settings change it would take to get rid of the warning you have now. Funny that the firmware update won't work. Maybe you got a firmware file for a different hardware revision. This thread may have a solution to make openvpn work again: Asus OpenVPN Insecure Hash...
  6. bp2008

    Switching from VPN to Port Forwarding.

    I'd suggest using wireguard instead of OpenVPN then. Asus routers support it basically the same, though you may need to update the router's firmware. Since you are using a hardware NVR appliance, port forwarding to it is very risky.
  7. bp2008

    Windows utility to set Hikvision Image Parameters Switch Scenes based on local sunrise sunset times

    As far as I can tell, .net core still does not have any first-party GUI framework that works on linux. You'd have to learn something like this instead to build the user interface. GitHub - AvaloniaUI/Avalonia: Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most...
  8. bp2008

    Is BI acting weird for anyone else? one camera sees a truck other 3 cameras see nothing?

    @Coldair 5 of your cameras in that clip are frozen since almost a minute before you started recording that screen capture. See the timestamps. I suspect something in Blue Iris's code for creating an alert or clip is hanging up waiting for something that wasn't supposed to take any time at all...
  9. bp2008

    FBI Warns Of 'Widespread' QR Code Scams By Cybercriminals To Steal Your Money

    Don't your phones tell you the URL before going to a QR code destination?? E.g. this one is just the URL of this thread we're in:
  10. bp2008

    Defined Subnet versus VLAN: Is there a difference in my example for Blue IrisI

    Based on that diagram, Blue Iris would see the two cameras but presumably not see the internet (if your router is not part of Vlan 20). Using a different subnet mask is not necessary. To really understand the purpose of the subnet mask, I think it helps to see things in raw binary form. Your...
  11. bp2008

    Masters of the Air –Why so many bombs in Episode 7? - Fact Checking the March 8, 1944 Mission : WWII US Bombers

    I imagine the show producers just thought a long string of bombs was more awe-inspiring, and that is all the reason they needed.
  12. bp2008

    Should I go new SSD or whole new computer?

    Yes, PCIe backwards compatibility is good. The SSD should work fine in that board.
  13. bp2008

    Alternative Live View App

    I think you could move every camera into an individual desktop frame and move them all around and resize them independently of each other. Not sure if the layout will persist between BI crashes though.
  14. bp2008

    Blue iris security

    What components are they leaving? The computer with Blue Iris on it? If it was purchased from someone you don't know, you should be wary of trusting a Blue Iris system left by a previous owner for reasons of privacy. The computer could have any number of backdoors installed. I'd recommend...
  15. bp2008

    Should I go new SSD or whole new computer?

    Samsung is generally one of the best, also not the cheapest. I don't know where to find SSD reliability statistics with a meaningful sample size. NVMe is almost always faster than SATA, but the difference will be pretty much irrelevant for Blue Iris.
  16. bp2008

    Should I go new SSD or whole new computer?

    I wouldn't be majorly concerned with OS security updates on a dedicated Blue Iris box anyway. Consider that the average NVR hardware appliance rarely (if ever) gets updated and is almost certainly harboring worse security holes. By simply not using the machine for web browsing, email, etc...
  17. bp2008

    Should I go new SSD or whole new computer?

    Windows 10's end of support is not in 2024. It is October 2025.
  18. bp2008

    Wester digital camera and blue iris

    Take screenshots of all the configuration that could possibly be helpful. Anything video related in the camera's web interface in particular. Screenshots of the camera configuration in Blue Iris may be helpful too.
  19. bp2008

    Embed iframes

    Web browsers have a limit of the number of simultaneous connections they will make to a single web origin (http://ipaddress:81 is an origin). 6 was the limit for a long time. I thought that was raised for most browsers recently but maybe not. I recommend creating a camera group in Blue Iris...
  20. bp2008

    Choppy video in UI3

    This certainly shouldn't be different between browsers. I wonder if your Firefox installation has a plugin that is interfering somehow.
  21. bp2008

    Speed dome optical zoom 5mp camera, not tilting high enough.

    Sounds like the cam is probably defective. But nothing is perfect, maybe there's an easier solution than getting the seller to take it back. Here are some ideas: 1) In its web interface, look for a setting for a tilt height limit (some PTZs have such a setting) 2) In its web interface, look...
  22. bp2008

    Choppy video in UI3

    Firefox had issues long ago but nothing in recent years unless you're talking about Firefox on Android. My previous advice could shed more light on the problem if you care to pursue it further.
  23. bp2008

    Image cut in half and distorted

    Looks to me like you had accidentally turned on Blue Iris's fisheye dewarping, probably in "Ceiling" mode. This is in Camera settings > Video tab > 360. It is not intuitively labeled so you may have turned it on not knowing what it is. And furthermore, it doesn't affect live view so by the...
  24. bp2008

    Choppy video in UI3

    What is the resolution and frame rate of the camera? 4K cams at high frame rate can be rather resource-intensive. Also, are you using wifi for the connection from your web browser to Blue Iris? To gather more data, it would be helpful to right click the video in UI3 and look in the Stats for...
  25. bp2008

    Doubling Up CAT Cables

    Hi. Yes. There exist products like this which passively split one ethernet cable (8 wires) into two cables (4 wires each), and typically all an IP cam actually needs is 4 wires. However I should note my connection was a bit flaky when using these devices. A better but more expensive option...
  26. bp2008

    Frame Bottleneck

    Yes, in Blue Iris the FPS/key is a set of two numbers. First number is the frame rate which Blue Iris has processed. When things are running smoothly, it should be very close to what was set in the camera's web configurator. When things are struggling, it may be lower. Second number is the...
  27. bp2008

    Frame Bottleneck

    It is unclear to me why that is happening. Is the video playing (slowly) in Blue Iris or is it stuck/frozen? Try putting 15 in the axis's "Frame rate (fps)" field. Blue Iris has a "Max. rate" field which you should ignore because that is for things like USB webcams where Blue Iris actually...
  28. bp2008

    Frame Bottleneck

    Sure in the case of actual multi-sensor cameras, it is fine to use {CAMNO}. I still prefer to swap out that text macro for the raw number so that the RTSP URL is shorter, but that is just my preference.
  29. bp2008

    Frame Bottleneck

    Oh also it is recommended to turn off Blue Iris's custom timestamp overlay and have the camera provide that so that a timestamp exists in the raw recordings. I see you have overlays disabled in your camera's encoding settings. configuration.
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