I've been wanting to setup home automation for years but haven't done much yet other than add an Eyze-On ethernet adaptor board to my DSC alarm. I haven't tried any HA software yet.
Related to that, I decided to set up some security cameras at home and bought 2 Reolink PoE cameras (an 830A and an E1 Outdoor - I realize now Reolink is not popular here but I can try out the recommended cameras once I'm set-up and have more understanding of what the system can do and what I want it to do).
I've got far enough along where the cameras are set up and recording to Blue Iris 5.8.x.x (in demo mode for now) but to get that far I relied on some youtube tutorials. At some point I realized the videos were outdated because they were using older versions of Blue Iris and using deepstack. I later found some tutorial that were updated for Code Project but even in those, they were using BI 5.7 which is different in many ways than 5.8 when it comes to the setup interface.
Is there a basic setup tutorial for BI 5.8 you can recommend? Something that also covers Code Project AI using the latest BI 5.8 version. A video is preferred but written tutorial works too. Something that shows the newer BI 5.8 settings (with the newer names of parameters and the updated settings tabs like the AI settings so they match what I have).
My goal is to have several cameras around the house that are recording 24/7 to local windows PC running BI and Code Project.
One older tutorial, I saw explained how to record only the lower res sub-stream 24/7 then only record the higher res stream when something was detected. This seems like logical thing to do but I'm not sure how to set it up with the newer BI 5.8 settings interface. It's too different than what the tutorial showed. The new BI 5.8 seems to be able to use both streams in a single camera setup and through triggers or alerts do things like record the higher res stream when triggered or alerted. A newer tutorial would help explain all that.
Thanks. I'm sure I'll have many more questions.
Related to that, I decided to set up some security cameras at home and bought 2 Reolink PoE cameras (an 830A and an E1 Outdoor - I realize now Reolink is not popular here but I can try out the recommended cameras once I'm set-up and have more understanding of what the system can do and what I want it to do).
I've got far enough along where the cameras are set up and recording to Blue Iris 5.8.x.x (in demo mode for now) but to get that far I relied on some youtube tutorials. At some point I realized the videos were outdated because they were using older versions of Blue Iris and using deepstack. I later found some tutorial that were updated for Code Project but even in those, they were using BI 5.7 which is different in many ways than 5.8 when it comes to the setup interface.
Is there a basic setup tutorial for BI 5.8 you can recommend? Something that also covers Code Project AI using the latest BI 5.8 version. A video is preferred but written tutorial works too. Something that shows the newer BI 5.8 settings (with the newer names of parameters and the updated settings tabs like the AI settings so they match what I have).
My goal is to have several cameras around the house that are recording 24/7 to local windows PC running BI and Code Project.
One older tutorial, I saw explained how to record only the lower res sub-stream 24/7 then only record the higher res stream when something was detected. This seems like logical thing to do but I'm not sure how to set it up with the newer BI 5.8 settings interface. It's too different than what the tutorial showed. The new BI 5.8 seems to be able to use both streams in a single camera setup and through triggers or alerts do things like record the higher res stream when triggered or alerted. A newer tutorial would help explain all that.
Thanks. I'm sure I'll have many more questions.