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Looking for an affordable (<$200) outdoor PoE PTZ camera. I will normally have this pointing at my back gate for security reasons, but when the kids are in the pool, I'd like to be able to pivot to them to watch while I'm working (just to keep me sane during the workday, not as a replacement to...

I'm trying to access the image stream via URL by passing the username and password as query string params but it is still kicking me to the UI3 login screen. Here are the steps: 1. Created a non admin user 2. Enter the following url in browser...

I followed the guide on here about how to reduce CPU usage and tweak BI including enabling Direct To Drive recording. But I see that my videos still have the overlay/timestamp. I thought D2D disabled this feature?

I'm in the process of trying to figure out what cameras I want to mount around the exterior my house. Where online do you generally purchase your cameras? I'm specifically looking at Dahua or Hikvision since they tend to come highly recommended. I'm hoping to find cameras in the $100 range give...

I have been going through the settings and have moved the clip storage to my large drive pool (since the OS and blue iris are installed on a small SSD). I noticed the disclaimer though that the "New" folder should ideally be on fast storage. How fast is fast storage? Obviously it will be fine on...

I think this error has to do with BI thinking I am running low of space on my C:\ drive? EDIT: OK, I think I figured it out. While changing the storage directories to my storage pool, I noticed that the size limit set for "New" is 10gb, "Stored" is 20gb, and "Alerts" is 1gb. Add that together...

I've been reading the VPN n00b guide and I agree that a VPN is absolutely necessary if you are connecting directly to the cameras. But if my cameras are not open directly to the outside and instead can be viewed via Blue Iris server, is a VPN as necessary?

Hi everyone. I am currently running Blue Iris on a home server connected to 3 wireless IP cameras, 2 of which are among the chinese Foscam models that were announced to have blatant easy access back doors. I've since deleted the port forwards to them and plan on configuring a VPN on my...