Blue Iris settings issue
- Thread starter bslow47
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Yikes... Thought I might have to do a total reinstall a long time ago.
Yes, but make sure you have your BI activation key for when you reinstall on the c drive.
Since the E drive should just be for video - I would delete everything.
But first decide if you will rebuild BI from scratch or do an export of the settings and import them in on the C drive.
Since the E drive should just be for video - I would delete everything.
But first decide if you will rebuild BI from scratch or do an export of the settings and import them in on the C drive.
Is there a way to save my 10 camera settings before I do this?
Go to the main BI settings page and do an export of the settings. Just to be safe, I would also go into each camera and export out those settings as well.
In theory, the global export should have them all, but I have seen instances where a camera was missing.
In theory, the global export should have them all, but I have seen instances where a camera was missing.
So, I saved the export to a folder on my desktop cause it wanted to save to BI, on the C drive, which I will be deleting. Is that right to do? Again, not real computer savvy.
sebastiantombs
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Make very sure to get a copy of you're registration for BI before you deactivate it. Easiest way to do that is bring up the help page and click "email support". That will copy all the important registration information to the cli[board. Then open a text editor, doesn't matter which one, and paste the information into it. Save, and maybe print out, a copy.
Think I'm going to tackle this thing tomorrow morning. Gonna put my 10TB WD surveillance drive from my Lorex NVR in my BI computer. Was thinking about replacing the the 3TB F drive with it, but don't know if I should use them both.
Can I do that? I'll have to get some advice from you guys on how to arrange things. Especially since my BI is writing to my 1TB ssd, not recommended by this forum.
Can I do that? I'll have to get some advice from you guys on how to arrange things. Especially since my BI is writing to my 1TB ssd, not recommended by this forum.
sebastiantombs
Known around here
I've got a 4TB and 8TB running for 24/7 recording and a 500GB running for alerts. If you have the room, SATA ports and power supply capabilities I'd say use both of them.
If your computer can take more drives, the more the better.
Most of us here do not use Stored. Usually only folks that use stored have a NAS.
Most here if we have multiple drives in the box, we split the cameras across the drives so when one poops out, we don't lose all the video.
Most of us here do not use Stored. Usually only folks that use stored have a NAS.
Most here if we have multiple drives in the box, we split the cameras across the drives so when one poops out, we don't lose all the video.
Going to redo my BI after a trip since it is working. However, your tips for getting my clips and archive seem to be going very well except for one thing. Don't think I'm saving ALERTS to be able to look back on. Was hoping to be able to store at least three weeks' worth, you stated before that it takes quite a bit to make up 1gb.
My F drive has been at 274G since you had me clean up some files and make adjustments to the folders. When I click on the calendar in BI, it only goes back 26hrs as far as clicking on flagged items.
Glad to hear!
The alerts folder will be empty (unless you are telling it to save Hi-rez or burn Deepstack on the image) as the alerts are the thumbnails on the main console to the left that corresponds to each triggered event.
So if you want the photos, then tell it to save hi-rez snapshots.
The alerts folder will be empty (unless you are telling it to save Hi-rez or burn Deepstack on the image) as the alerts are the thumbnails on the main console to the left that corresponds to each triggered event.
So if you want the photos, then tell it to save hi-rez snapshots.
Is that under Trigger, When triggered, Add to alerts list, then pick Hi-rez JPEG files?
You have two places you can chose that at (well 3 if you are doing deepstack) - under the camera setting you can tell it when triggered to do database only, none, mpeg video or hi-rez. Or you can do it under the alerts when triggered.
sebastiantombs
Known around here
Generally speaking and if you're recording 24/7 (continuously), alerts are nothing more than markers in the BI data base to the time of the alert so it can be retrieved for viewing from the continuous recording. The alrts folder will contain snapshots and DS data if you choose to save them.
I am recording 24/7, need to be able to look back 3 weeks, ideally like clicking on the flagged timeline on the left in BI screen, to look at motions that were detected and recorded. I have T-Mobile home internet, so there's an issue with trying to do VPNs. Going to add a 10tb hard drive to BI from my Lorex NVR.