Integrating a WIF camera with hardwired POE cameras on Blue Iris ?

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shadango

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I am wondering if there is a way that I can integrate a WIFI camera into my BlueIris system on my network.

I am using a second ethernet card on the PC running BlueIris, and the cameras I have are connected to a hub connected to that ethernet card.

Two cameras are POE cabled.....the 3rd is brought to the hub using a power-over-electric adaptor.

A second ethernet card gets me out to the interwebs.

Everything works pretty well, though my PC will be needing an upgrade soon but thats another issue. LOL

Is there any way to bring in a WIFI camera into the fold?

I figured this was more of a networking question than anything so I am posting here.

Be gentle ---I am not a networking guru. :)

Thanks all.
 
Will the Wi-Fi camera be indoors or outdoors? If indoors, I recommend the Amcrest IP2M-841 or the C4K-P wedge form factor camera sold by EmpireTech.
It has Both have a webGUI and can stream RTSP to Blue Iris.

You would assign it a unique static IP in the same subnet as the POE cameras and connect to a wireless access point as below:

A wireless access point (WAP) can be assigned a unique static IP in the same subnet as the POE cameras and connected to the same LAN as the camera's POE switch.
You can also use a wireless router that is to be dedicated as a WAP by one of two methods:
1) Many newer wireless routers have a "Access Point" mode, it supplies only Wi-Fi and does no routing or
2) if no WAP mode, just disable DHCP and assign it a unique static IP in the same subnet as the POE cameras; it will perform no routing. Either one will serve as a WAP.
 
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Thanks for the help folks!

So, what I am considering is a solar powered WIFI camera outside, where I am not able to run a network cable/power to......

Summarizing what y'all have laid out above, I would need a cabled poe WAP, located outside somewhere, cabled to the network hub/unmanaged switch I am using now, and a WIFI camera that does NOT need internet to work and that has RTSP mode....connecting that WIFI camera to that WAP....then that WAP is dedicated only to that camera, correct?

I am skeptical about solar powered anything but they do seem to be popular these days...
 
shadango said:
Summarizing what y'all have laid out above, I would need a cabled poe WAP, located outside somewhere, cabled to the network hub/unmanaged switch I am using now, and a WIFI camera that does NOT need internet to work and that has RTSP mode....connecting that WIFI camera to that WAP....then that WAP is dedicated only to that camera, correct?
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You pretty much laid it out correctly EXCEPT....the fly in the ointment is finding a solar/battery Wi-Fi (wire-free) camera that can provide a RTSP video output. :confused:
 
Ring and Arlos and Simplisafe are popular these days too. Doesn't mean they are good.

Now that you added solar power to your list of requirements, no solar power camera streams 24/7 and the constant No Signal errors could create issues with your system or crash your BI system. At the very least it will be problematic.

People that have done solar/battery cameras with BI have made their own box like you may have seen at parking lots and used a real POE camera.

It will be more of a toy. At that point, if you really want a camera there, you either figure out how to get power or POE there or simply have a camera that is not in BI and use whatever native app that camera has, keeping in mind that wifi cams can slow down an home internet network as these cameras NEVER bufffer like a Netflix does.

People are creative here. Give us a sketch with lengths and we can probably devise a proper camera install.
 
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