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I was using Deepstack in cpu mode for a few months but eventually got tired of the cpu fan kicking on every time a car drove by, so I simply went to the main menu AI tab and unchecked the "use AI server on IP/port" checkbox. This got rid of the fan noise. However now I seem to see dropped frames...

I am trying to get accustomed to using sub-streams. Previously I had avoided using them. Why does it seem that my Dahua cameras look the same on the live-view after enabling the 640x480 substream but the Hikvision looks different? Clearly 640x480 is a 4:3 proportion, but it seems that I only see...

Or a tree falls on my car? Or a motorcycle drives across my lawn? Or a bouncy house or porta-potty blows by? Or an alien spacecraft? What if I just want to ignore wind and shadows but not everything else?

I just posted this in another thread after doing a search on "Optiplex 7060" but on later inspection that seems to have been a rather off-topic post in that long thread so let me try again... I just picked up an Optiplex 7060 from Amazon but I have a problem. Where the heck is the power...

My continuously running pc that I use for Blue-Iris has croaked. There was a power outage here last week so I powered it down before the UPS battery died -- but it now has a definite problem. Apparently the power supply or the motherboard is sick. If I plug it in I can hear a faint "chirping"...

I'm curious if there is an established method for troubleshooting a camera that has suffered connector water exposure? What I am thinking of is a breakout box that would allow me to monitor POE voltage and current? Is that practical?

Does anyone offer an IR replacement for an ordinary 120V bulb socket? That might be the easiest way for me to get some exterior illuminaton and keep the moths and spiders off of my cameras.

I have somehow created some sort of bug in my system. I have pfSense set up with a dedicated subnet 192.168.7.1 set up for my camera server. The Windows 10 camera server pc is assigned 192.168.7.50. It has a dual network card in it so that 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.2.1 are two networks connected...

I'm sure you guys have been on top of this question.

Cheap Chinese DH-IPC-HFW4300R-Z which seems to be working, however when I try to log into the camera the browser login form immediately deletes my attempts to enter name/password into the fields.

On a Starlight shouldn't the text automatically select black or white to provide readability?

I have too much headlight activity at my house to use camera triggers to find events of interest during night hours. Does anyone else have PIR or other sensors successfully working as inputs to BI? Thanks.

I had always heard here that triggered recording was not reliable, but I have never seen such a clear cut case of it as I have now with a camera I have been testing in a temporary location. I have it set up near floor level in a hallway of my basement. I am still using BI4 with the triggering...

Are there cameras designed for this? I am thinking of a situation where you simply need a camera to look out of a window. Obviously you don't want reflections from the window to cause trouble. Thanks.

I am wondering if anyone here has experimented with the use of a single camera installed independently? No NVR. Just an installed microSD card. Could that minimal system be useful or is the recording time too short?

Had a thunderstorm last week which apparently blew out a 8-port Netgear switch and damaged a 4-port Intel NIC card. I'm not sure what actually happened but I do have a 100ft CAT6 cable which runs from the basement to the 2nd floor and another 100ft CAT6 cable which runs from the basement to the...

I just noticed that my Starlight IPC-HFW4239T-ASE has stopped triggering. It won't even trigger with the "trigger now" command. I bought it in mid-January from Andy. I tried cycling power. Any other ideas?

I'm afraid to even look at it. Can I review one camera and skip ahead to the next events only on THAT ONE camera? I don't want to jump to other cameras. I don't want to fight with viewing things that bridge two clips.

So it will start deleting files when it gets down to... what?

In my system I have a mix of cheap 2,3 and 4mp Hik and Dahua cameras. For simplicity and for a nice looking BI display where all the images have the same size and proportions I have them all set to 1080p. This morning I had a situation where I could barely see what I wanted to see, so I am...

I was just thinking about how pathetic and obsolete garage door opener security is said to be. Also garage door openers tend to be used as-is for the life of the unit -- so whatever technology they use is always obsolete. I wonder if a much more secure scheme could be whipped up? Perhaps an...

So which cost-effective sensors might be employed to detect vehicles entering a driveway? Thanks

I don't know if this perhaps belongs in some other forum, but what are the various and best ways to accomplish these triggers for BI?

Found this and thought it was interesting... ...however what I would like to do is capture the video myself and terminate the subscription service.

After some trouble with the vacant house next door I am wishing I had a camera that would acquire readable license plates, as cars drive past my house. Who here has experience with that? Thanks.

I have a IPC-HFW4239TP-ASE that is behaving oddly. It doesn't seem to want to stay in day mode. I get a white screen. Is there a trick to this? EDIT -- I found the problem. I had taken the "Day" profile off of "auto" so the shutter speed was too slow.

So how do you actually review your videos? I have some cameras that trigger on many bogus events due to shadows from passing car headlights or wind motion. The vast number of bogus triggers makes it difficult to review the recordings to see is anything "significant" occurred. I am thinking that...

I noticed that the BI options menu has a settings tab for "Digital IO and IoT" which includes the following fields... -Serial port -MQTT -Sealevel Systems -Control I have been thinking of using a Raspberry Pi or Arduino to monitor some temperatures and some PIR motion detectors. It would be...

So where is the definitive article on properly securing Windows 10 ?

I just noticed that Windows 10 runs a service called "Alljoyn Router" that is supposed to allow IoT devices to communicate. This seems like a bad idea.