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Being a huge fan of PTZ cams, there is one feature missing that would improve it for all PTZ users. I cannot find the feature of being able to point and click on a part of the monitor and have the camera move to that location. Because of this item alone - I am forced to also use Surveillance Pro...

I've been out for a bit and after an update I see a Green number in the title bar by my camera name and can't find what that means. Looked in the most recent help file ("What's New") and tried the feeble search engine here AND using site: blah blah. It's on 3 of my 5 currently connected cams and...

My 4TB drive is holding about 18 days of data using 5 cams recording 24/7. I can go back and review all of these days easily but on the timeline my triggered events only show up on the last 7 days and can see no reason they don't show for all 18 days. I did a database rebuild just in case, but...

I've been tinkering with LPR stuff but temporarily using an Amcrest IP2M-853EW PTZ to see if I could get it to swing fast enough to snag a plate. The cams on the side of the house have zones set and then tell the PTZ to swing and zoom in - it has been working near perfectly during the day but I...

Brand new IPC-T3241T-ZAS and all seems just fine with it but I started getting this odd flash on the screen and it is quite annoying. Only does it on that one cam view, so it is not the monitor either. Had to shoot this on my cellphone as it does NOT show on any playbacks and never happened...

Hours have passed as I look for ways to use a previously recorded clip to help tweak motion detection. Waiting for the next car or person to come down the road makes no sense so can someone assist in pointing me to other threads or videos discussing this. I've watched the help videos talking...

I may not even need to do this, so advice on that would be good to hear also. Using Advanced IP Scanner I noticed that I have 2 IP addresses that are still active but not being used. They are the addresses that were assigned by DHCP when I first installed 2 cams over wifi. When those were...

I've had an Amcrest ip2m-853e nice PTZ online for a month with no issues until I noticed that it had 2 yr old firmware and there was an update from just last month. The update went easily but now I have no PTZ control in Blue Iris v5 with the latest updates. It will not accept another flash...

BI-5 manual on page 72/73 basically says that for "direct to disk" recording you should have the FPS/Key (key frames per second) set to 1.00 Info found in BI Status > cameras tab >FPS/key column. A little more searching meant I needed to set each camera i-frames to match the camera FPS to get a...

I"ve only seen a few folks post about useful keyboard shortcuts and thought it would be great if there were a common list. I have not made any myself yet and would like to learn how to do it but I think some may not be possible. For one - I want to have a shortcut to have the selected cam view...

Bought a used ebay machine to run BI and the cams and then ran a nice piece of software called "Belarc Advisor" (free for home use) to confirm the inner workings and I noticed that it said "Not Hyper-Threaded" Mine is an i7-4790 with 4 cores and to change hyperthreading you need to go into the...

Thanks to some of you folks for mentioning this tool in various threads - as I have used it a while back to upgrade a Win7 machine to Win10 with no issues. However several threads with @fenderman @loony2ns @SouthernYankee and even @Q™ mention "clean install" which surprises me a lot. Are we...

This cam seems to have a "home" that it returns to whenever it wants. I caught it moving between presets during a rainstorm but it doesn't have tracking that I know of. I've played with different softwares but it mostly runs on SmartPSS. If this is a feature I'd like to learn to take advantage...

Thought I'd take a look at these drives on Ebay while in there and noticed a lot of Used drives also. I am getting the impression that these are drives that folks have taken out of old DVR's and have to wonder if they would still be okay to use for surveillance. Assuming that these used ones...

Searched here and googled a bit this morning already and either find none or conflicting information. With a mixture of POE and non POE cams and switches - does it matter if the POE switch is before or after the non-POE?

Looked through the specs, youtube, google reviews and this forum for over an hour with no certainty. Some say that it does have an optical zoom but I can't find the power of that zoom. The specs only show the 16x digital. The 5231 clearly shows a 5x optical zoom and a 16x digital zoom which...

Just wondering if anyone has run their system with a laptop and BI ? Let's assume the laptop was always plugged in and had an i5 6th gen chip with an SSD, an external Terabyte+ drive to store the vids and a switch. Doubt I would do this, but just curious.

I'll attach my diagram and thoughts: The items in green are what I already own and the stuff on the left is my current working setup. I am slowly buying cameras but do already own the 20watt PTZ too. (never used) From what I have been reading for days now, it seems that the network on the right...

Saw this on Andy's sight - on sale for another hour and although its an Amcrest - I've always wanted a PTZ. Seems like a heck of a deal for under $200. Thoughts ?

I plan to put a cam that covers my driveway but I also have a neighbor right across the street that thinks he has to run his 2 billion watt driveway light from dusk till dawn. They won't change it ( I've asked before when I wanted to step out front to watch satellites overhead ). I am pretty...

I also searched to see if anyone has created an Excel spreadsheet of the cameras available (yes, it would be huge) showing their features and possibly prices. Having started my own using a few recommended cams I note that it sure is a PITA to make but wouldn't be too difficult to maintain. Is...

I searched the forum and Cliff Notes and couldn't find anything on this. Likely because it is too obvious, but I wanted to be sure. I have a 32" 1080p TV that I want to use instead of a computer monitor - it has HDMI - any problems? Even my computer monitors are only 1080p and I would only...

I've read the resource guide .pdf's and the Cliff Notes. (doesn't mean I understand them) And will read them again. SouthernYankee's "standard message" is also enlightening as it reflects some real world experiences. Having viewed at least 250 videos trying to figure out what I really need, I...