Been using BI4 for years with no issues and for me personally i don't see anything in BI5 to make me switch. I'm not bothered about the new remote feature and i'm guessing it uses the same ios app?
Any reason to go BI4 to 5?
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TL1096r
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I have not seen any bugs at all. I installed on clean computer that never had BI on it though. Not sure if that matters. I simply like the design of this much better than BI4.
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Yup. Just examples of BI5. I think personally it is just better to have updated software. BI4 is not going to update ever again.
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I upgraded from 4 to 5 yesterday. It took 10 minutes and when it was done this floated through my mind...
"...well...that was easy..."
Start here...
Blue Iris 4 to 5 Migration Guide
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I upgraded from 4 to 5 yesterday. It took 10 minutes and when it was done this floated through my mind.
"...well...that was easy..."
Start here...
Blue Iris 4 to 5 Migration Guide
That's the thread that had me sort of worried about needing make backups, edit various registry keys, manually re-enter various settings (and change some to work with the new version), and ultimately have to wipe everything, do a clean install of windows, and basically start over.
I'll have to read more of the latest posts. It sounds like things are working more smoothly now!
@J Sigmo I doubt any improvements to the upgrade process have been made since the week it was launched Now it is just a question of having enough time to deal with the unavoidable issues like reconfiguring your profiles and alert preferences and stuff, since that stuff has changed with BI5.
Make sure you have a registry backup and know how to use it because if you uninstall BI4 you can expect to lose all the BI config and registration. I suggest using Blue Iris Update Helper (BiUpdateHelper) to make the registry backup, as it will compress it really tiny using 7zip, and to restore it all you need to do is extract the reg file and run it. The backups which Blue Iris makes are relatively huge and painful to restore.
Now it is just a question of having enough time to deal with the unavoidable issues like reconfiguring your profiles and alert preferences and stuff, since that stuff has changed with BI5.Make sure you have a registry backup and know how to use it because if you uninstall BI4 you can expect to lose all the BI config and registration. I suggest using Blue Iris Update Helper (BiUpdateHelper) to make the registry backup, as it will compress it really tiny using 7zip, and to restore it all you need to do is extract the reg file and run it. The backups which Blue Iris makes are relatively huge and painful to restore.
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@J Sigmo I doubt any improvements to the upgrade process have been made since the week it was launched
Make sure you have a registry backup and know how to use it because if you uninstall BI4 you can expect to lose all the BI config and registration. I suggest using Blue Iris Update Helper (BiUpdateHelper) to make the registry backup, as it will compress it really tiny using 7zip, and to restore it all you need to do is extract the reg file and run it. The backups which Blue Iris makes are relatively huge and painful to restore.
I'll probably hold off for a while, then. It's the busy season at work, and I've got enough honeydo projects at home already.
That's encouraging to hear!