Where to find good price on Blue Iris LE / Single Camera?

PaulInMelbourne

PaulInMelbourne

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Jun 9, 2019
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Anyone know where I can get a good deal on a LE / single camera Blue Iris license? I noticed it's not in the ipcamtalk store.

Have been using it to screen-cast my son's laptop, to monitor his internet/gaming while his school is online only. It works well, but the price for LE is quite steep for a screen-casting solution. Hoping find a reasonable price for the LE license so I can keep everything in the Blue Iris ecosystem.

(I do already have a paid full version of Blue Iris)
 
Why not just put the cam on your BI system?

Assuming that you must have some reason but if you explain why maybe someone may have another suggestion.
 
My dedicated PC runs the full version of Blue Iris, which is already recording cameras, which we view from a tablet. I wanted to also view my son's laptop screen from the tablet. I ran a trial Blue Iris LE on my son's laptop to stream his desktop to the dedicated PC, so that his screen is also viewable on the tablet along with the cameras. It worked quite well. The trial is over so I need to buy an LE license for the laptop.
 
PaulInMelbourne said:
Thanks Tony, I knew you could buy it from the main website. I'm just scrimping to save a few bucks.
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I understand, I don't like to spend an excess amount if I don't need to. That being said, It's practically a one man show there (Ken Pletzer) and he deserves every penny, IMO. Quite a fantastic product at a reasonable price, I'm sure you would agree. :headbang:
 
Fenderman had posted this a while back... Using VLC to stream to RTSP (need to translate to English):

www.securame.com

Como realizar streaming por RTSP de un escritorio de Windows usando VLC - Securame

VLC media player es un reproductor de video open source capaz de reproducir multitud de formatos, y que incluye también opciones para usarlo como servidor de streaming, en vivo y de «video on demand». Es posible usar el VLC para transmitir por RTSP el escritorio de un ordenador, de forma que...
www.securame.com

I've not tried it. Have to think that there are some other free/cheap ways to stream a desktop out to some common format.
 
A plug-in for OBS to stream to RTSP:

OBS-RTSPServer

简体中文 日本語 한국어 Español Français Italiano Deutsch Nederlands OBS-RTSPServer This is a plugin for obs-studio, encode and publish to a RTSP stream. Supported Platforms : Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux and macOS Supported OBS Studio version ...
obsproject.com obsproject.com

That and OBS Studio should do it. Though some overhead and learning curve to that.
 
Wow thanks for all the responses.

TonyR said:
That being said, It's practically a one man show there (Ken Pletzer) and he deserves every penny, IMO.
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Yes absolutely. I've bought the full version, the Android app and the iOS app. For screen-casting, there are much cheaper non-RTSP options so was just trying to shop around to see if I could stay with Blue Iris for this functionality as well.

fenderman said:
activtrak is free
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Thanks, I had a look at this and it doesn't cast the desktop, it only reports on activity, like web browsing. I had tried other things like NetNanny which do similar things, but we found it much easier to just glance at a live cast and nip it in the bud when my son loses focus and gets distracted on the net, rather than have to deal with it after-the-fact when we see the activity report.

Mike A. said:
Fenderman had posted this a while back... Using VLC to stream to RTSP (need to translate to English)
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I saw that post, and others as well, and spent many hours trying to get it to work. Surprisingly this part of VLC is very unstable and I could only get it to work on the rare occasion and could never repeat it.

Mike A. said:
A plug-in for OBS to stream to RTSP
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That looks great, thanks a lot, I will check it out!
 
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