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  1. TheWaterbug

    Tree Removal Time Lapse

    LA County Public Works removed this old pine tree because it was in danger of toppling over under its own weight. I have a camera mounted to my mailbox in the perfect position to capture the whole event.
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    Tomato Planting Time Lapse

    Tomato Planting at Painted Peacock Manor, 03/10/24 I should get tomatoes earlier this year, because I planted them much faster!
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    Incredible Color-Changing Jeep!!

    Reolink RLC-420 (IPC_51316M) via Blue Iris. It's just a trick of the light and of the Reolink color/exposure algorithm, but it's still interesting to watch.
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    Corn Picking Time Lapse!

    Corn-U-Copia 2023!!!
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    Brazen Break-in At My Office

    This extremely bad criminal yanked the panic bar right off the door frame (being fixed and reinforced now ) and threatened my employee before walking off with a bag full of camera equipment: He then threw the very expensive camera to the ground and walked off with a $100 tablet that he later...
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    New Analog Cameras in 2023?!?!?

    I just received a marketing email from Amcrest, and one of the items in the email was this: It looks like a new-ish model, because it has the NightColor feature. Who's still using analog cameras in 2023? I'm not, but I'm curious.
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    Camera in BI switches IPs spontaneously?

    I have 3 cameras in a group, called EastvaleNorth (192.168.1.56), EastvaleSouth (.58), and RainbowRidge (.59): When I installed RainbowRidge a few days ago, I set it up in BI by cloning EastvaleSouth, since it's the same model, and then changing its IP assignment to .59. Since then I've...
  8. TheWaterbug

    Display Group of 3 as 1 and 2 instead as of 2 and 1?

    I have a set of 3 cameras at a tee in the roadway. On camera looks "down" the tee, and the other two look left and right. Logically I'd want the "tee" camera (RainbowRidge, in the screen cap below), to be on top of the other two, which I'd want side by side. But I can't figure out how to arrange...
  9. TheWaterbug

    IP5M-T1277EW-AI vs. IP5M-T1179EW

    I just installed an Amcrest IP5M-T1277EW-AI under my mailbox: It's the one pointing uphill, while the one pointing downhill is an older IP5M-T1179EW that I'd been buying for ~$50 - $57/ea. over the last few years (total of 20 units in 3 locations): I paid $79.99 for the new IP5M-T1277EW-AI...
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    PTZ w/stored focus points and HTTP scripting?

    My live BeeCam (Reolink RLC-423) has been working reasonably well over the last 5+ years, and it's still running fine. I use ffmpeg to pull RTSP from the camera and push it out to a YouTube streaming channel, and then I have another script that commands it to rotate through N preset positions...
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    Can BI be configured to write triggers to the System Log?

    At work we have a Security information and event management (SIEM) server (Wazuh) aggregating the logs from all our PCs, servers, switches, routers, etc., to try and correlate "events of interest," both for the purposes of preventing intrusions and for forensics if we ever get intruded. Think...
  12. TheWaterbug

    BI Storage Quota Per Camera?

    I have a record-keeping requirement that is different from my security needs, e.g. I need to log all entries and exits from my server room and keep the records for 90 days. The easiest way I can think of is to put a cheap IP camera in there and record anyone going in and out. I don't need to...
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    Feed ffmpeg to BI like a camera?

    I'm using ffmpeg to push some RTSP streams from my crittercams to YouTube via RTMP. I'm simultaneously recording the footage in BI, but the raw RTSP lacks the custom overlay that I'm putting on the YouTube feed, e.g. the real-time weather on my BeeCam...
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    Affordable Camera for high-entropy video?

    I've been recording events of bee swarms moving into my "swarm traps" for a few years now: 2018, using a Raspberry Pi camera module. 2019, the inside camera was a Reolink RLC-411, and the outside camera a Reolink RLC-410S. 2020, Reolink RLC-410S inside and RLC-410S outside (the RLC-411 had...
  15. TheWaterbug

    Firewall Rules for BI/RTSP on Segmented Network?

    I'm working towards transitioning my network from a flat network to a segmented network with at least 3-4 zones, using pfsense as my firewall. At some point down the road I will move all of my cameras to a completely isolated network with a dedicated connection to a 2nd NIC on my BI computer...
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    Gardening Time Lapse

    Sped up 100x in Blue Iris:
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    What happened to the entrance reducer on my bee hive?

    It was there last time I checked . . . .
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    Defish Amcrest IP5M-T1179EW w/ffmpeg?

    My Swarm Trap Cameras are both very close to the objects they're monitoring, and there's some ugly fisheye effect: Obviously that box and the board it's sitting on should be rectangular. I'm already processing the video through ffmpeg before pushing it to YouTube, so it would be easy to add...
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    BI Doesn't Record when Router is Down

    I have an issue with my router where it shuts itself down about 1x/day. This is annoying, but it's covered under warranty, and I'll have a replacement in place in a couple of days.. Meantime, I'm seeing an unexpected side effect where, if the router is down, BI doesn't record. You can see gaps...
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    RTSP "Doorbell" camera with no doorbell (or doorbell wiring)?

    The front door of my office building looks like this: There is no residential doorbell wiring in that door frame, but there is 12V for the security entry keypad, and I have a string of Cat5e in the ceiling that I can run down into the door frame for POE. Recommendations for a camera? I'd...
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    Anyone tried Amcrest IP8M-2779EW-AI? 4K Night Color Turret in Black or White

    I saw this for $109 on amazon awhile back, but haven't seen any mention of it here, yet. I asked on the amazon page ,"Does it support RTSP and ONVIF?" and a month later, Amcrest Support replied, "Yes." So now this is interesting. "Featuring the latest Sony Starvis CMOS progressive scanning...
  22. TheWaterbug

    Timeline Playback Controls Not Always Visible, Despite "Always Visible" is On

    Running UI3 version 222, Blue Iris version: 5.6.0.9 and browsing from Chrome 105.0.5195.102 on macOS. Whenever I first load a Timeline view, the playback controls are not visible, despite I have Playback Controls: Always Visible turned on. As soon as I drag the timeline a bit, then the...
  23. TheWaterbug

    Remote Access Wizard Enhancement Suggestion:

    Hi! I'm trying to walk my son through setting up a BI box for his mom/my ex. We spent more than an hour trying to figure out why LAN access worked fine at 192.168.1.3:81: but WAN access did not: despite BI Remote Setup wizard reported success for the connection test: After much...
  24. TheWaterbug

    Timeline View in iOS App?

    Does Timeline View exist in the iOS BI app? I don't see it, but I don't know whether that's because it doesn't exist yet or because I don't know how to get to it. Meantime I can see Timeline View in Chrome for iOS, but I'd rather have it in the app.
  25. TheWaterbug

    Internet Explorer finally going away

    It's not just "unsupported" now; it'll actually stop launching: Who still has ancient cameras that can only be controlled/configured in IE? Will they still work in Edge's "IE Mode"?
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    Corn Patch Prep, Time Lapse, 2022

    Manure, urea, and gypsum tilled in, and then watered for 2 hours to trick the weeds into germinating. In 10 days I'll murder the weeds and plant the corn. I dumped the whole 2 hour clip from BI, sped it up 100x in ffmpeg, and then edited and added the soundtrack in DaVince Resolve.
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    The Barf of Love (tm)

    Finch Dad feeds his Brooding Wife at Painted Peacock Manor. Chicks should start hatching out any day now:
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    Sign that reads, "No Loitering, and we'll throw away all your crap?"

    The good news is that I've moved my business into a newer building. The bad news is that there are a few folks living in the parking lot behind the building. I've notified the landlord, but I also want to embark on some deterrence. This guy likes to lean his bicycle against my building and plug...
  29. TheWaterbug

    Force 3 x 3 layout with 8 cameras?

    Is there a way to force a 3 x 3 layout of my cameras, even though I have only 8 cameras currently? Based on the way the cameras correspond to their physical locations, rows of 3, 3, and 2 cameras make a lot more sense than 2 rows of 4 cameras.
  30. TheWaterbug

    BI 5.5.6.15 Doesn't Trigger On This Motion?

    I'm just setting up a new site, so most things are set to defaults, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how BI did NOT trigger on this motion. When I review the New clip in UI3, I get lots of yellow rectangles, but no orange rectangles: Default settings for motion detection and zones...
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