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I'm finally ready to upgrade to BI5, but plan on installing it on a new setup (Yes, I'll deactivate the old one). I have only a few cameras, and will be swapping a number of those for new cameras. I prefer to do a "clean" install from scratch. What can you recommend for this? I plan on...

In other words, the extra $5 is insurance against future aggravation. I think I can deal with that. The current system is an Intel i7 with 8 gb of Ram. I'm only dealing with 8 cams, possibly up to 10 in the future, so I THINK I don't need a serious system upgrade. Am I on the right track here?

OK... It looks like the bugs have been mostly worked out from BI5, and I need to do an update of my video security system anyway. So, what do I do? I understand that I need to either do a serious backup, or just resign myself to setting it up from scratch. I'm good with that. But for the...

Thanks Fenderman! Yes, I know it's old, but I was quite happy with how it was running, and my past experience with software has taught me to not upgrade unless I ran into a problem or there was a new feature that I really wanted. If for some reason I cannot get to the "export settings"...

I have the license key, but am not sure if I can get to the "deactivate" button or the "export settings" button. Also, I only went with "basic" support when I purchased BlueIris. Am I able to install a newer version without running into the "Major Upgrade" wall? My current version is...

The only capture images I'm saving are simply quick grabs of one camera, in a "rotating" sequential file that keeps just the past several images. As far as archived clips are concerned, I only have a few hundred, and those are overwritten as they age, or if storage space becomes an issue.

Before I do this I want to make sure I'm doing it right, and don't end up having to purchase a new license. After running smoothly for quite a long time, my installation of Blue Iris is suddenly having issues... The "service" appears to be running smoothly in the background, posting images and...

D'oh! [yet another Homer Simpson facepalm moment] Yes, I figured it out, including the fact I was trying to make it more complicated than necessary.

How do I manually change the camera layouts and save them? I've deselected the "drag lock" option, but still can't move or resize any of the camera view frames. Also, when I use the slider to adjust the size of a selected camera, that doesn't work. Only the size of the "earliest" camera added...

I have a niggling crash that keeps happening with Blue Iris. It's running as a service, and as far as I can tell that is actually running just fine. I will sometimes see a crash when I open the BI interface (through Remote Desktop). To recover, I have to open the task manager, and stop the BI...

Many thanks for the link. Reloading -9.0 did the trick, and it's running (mostly) smoothly right now. I did try reloading -9.1, and it still wouldn't boot.

Where can I find 4.3.9.0??? I just upgraded to 4.3.9.1 and now BI won't start.

Many possibilities: A bit of corrosion at the camera's RJ45 connection. A cable gone bad (it happens) Noise affecting the cable (fluorescent lights, or large electric motors) You've added a camera, or upped the bit-rate somehow and have reached a bandwidth limit somewhere in your network...

To quote Homer: Doh! (with a facepalm) About as simple as I'd hoped, and staring me in the face if I'd looked closer at the options. Many thanks!

I've figured out the part with cloning the camera and using the alt/framerate on one clone to create the time-lapse video. My problem is that I'd like to have the time-lapse video record to a separate folder (or even a different hard drive) to prevent it from being overwritten when the primary...

Thanks fenderman! That worked out quite well! Task Manager shows the CPU usage for BI at around 20% if I'm not running the interface, and around 28% with it running. This is without any recording going on, so during motion alerts it's going to run higher.

Ok, I've finally got my cameras running smoothly, and it's looking like I'll get around 40 days of clips on a TB drive, with room to spare. I've even figured out how to post images from my "Sunset Cam" on Wunderground.com, so I guess I'm making progress here. Now, I want to get BI to run at...

You'll need to run Windows (XP or newer) for Blue Iris. If it's just one camera, however, you may not even need something like Blue Iris. Many of the inexpensive IP Cameras (Dahua, for example) come with basic software that will allow you to continuously record the camera video stream to a...

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An easy check, depending on your switch: Simply attach a gigabit switch to one of your router ports. Many of the Gb switches have indicator lights to show if the link is 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps. Of course this only tells you what the link is, and not actual throughput.

Hey, Julius! I don't presume to speak for nayr, but in my case it was good advice. The switch inside the router has to deal with a lot of traffic other than the video network, so already has a lot of overhead. Further, the switch in the router is only 10/100, and with as many cameras as I...

Well, it looks like I have a workable pathway forward for now. The question is just how many surprises Professor Murphy will direct my way! Many thanks for the advice and feedback.

Ok, I agree that getting above 50% bandwidth isn't a great idea. But with this configuration, the POE camera switches would each be running "just" 25Mbps in the uplink to a gigabit switch. Wouldn't the Gb switch be able to easily handle those 3 sets of streams going to the BI Server?

I guess I'm dense and don't quite understand the bandwidth needs here. If I use H264.H, 10FPS, 3MP resolution, and use the maximum CBR choice of 8192 kbps, that's around 25 Mbps uplinked from each POE switch, and about 75Mbps total traffic uplinking to the backbone switch, and mostly confined...

Many thanks for the insight. So, if I understand correctly, I can hook a decent switch at point 2, and everything except Router WiFi will pass through that. Also, do I understand correctly that even though the Powerline leg runs off this switch, the IP camera traffic to the BI Server through...

Well, you've been very right about this. My big problem is the network, and probably the limitations of the Powerline portion. It's sufficient for good video streaming and internet browsing, but the IP cameras are just a wee bit more finicky. I've posted a new question about how to redesign...

Well, I'm having to admit that a problem I first thought was a camera, then Blue Iris limits, has turned out (as you experts very kindly predicted) to be a network capacity issue. So, now I'm hoping I can re-design my home network topology to keep camera bandwidth from interfering with things...

All the low-voltage wire was put in at the time of construction, 40 years ago. The only thing that wasn't put in was coax for TV cable. Heck all the lights in the house are controlled by 18v relays! My utility room has a huge 66-board that distributes the 25-pair cabling to every room in the...

Well, of course you need to pick the pairs carefully. If you mismatched the pairs in Cat5 it wouldn't work well either (and I've done that! LOL!). Frankly, I don't expect the telco cable to work for this, but have to try due to the real difficulty of running the new Cat5. As I said, I'll...

Remember, it is twisted pair, and there's no longer even a single phone pair in there to crosstalk with. Almost all the old telco twisted pair cables were "rated" to Cat1, but actually performed to Cat3 or better when tested. As I've said, running the new Cat5 cable properly is a huge job...