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It's a balmy -22F here with a nice strong breeze... Outdoor cameras are all working. Might go snow-shoeing tomorrow if the wind goes down a bit. Time to throw another log on the fire.

@SouthernYankee, Updated settings as you indicated, will see how works. Didn't do the OS upgrade though, will see how works without. Video looks good so far. Will see how well it triggers. Continuous video seems like a lot of data, but I suppose a 500g hard drive would be ok FIFO should keep a...

BL Hadware: Intel i7-4790 @ 3.60GHz, 16GB ram. OS- Windoze 8.1 Here's one of the Dahua camera video setup screens:

So a frame rate of 15 should have Iframe set at 15, where it was? Should I increase the frame rate to 30 and drop Iframe to 30 as well? I have 16 cams on the network. It's a gigabyte network but I might start losing headroom if several cameras happen to trigger at the same time I am thinking...

Iframe was set to 15 on most of the cameras so I changed to 60. Is there a way to determine the optimum settings for each particular camera other than guessing looking at the video quality during playback? Most of my cameras are Dahuas, but I can't find an Iframe setting in the older Foscam...

I'll have to look into this Iframe interval. maybe I'll get it working eventually! :) Pre-triggers are set for 2 seconds, maybe I should try 4 and see how it works? Thanks for your insight @fenderman!

Now I notice my cameras are not triggering/recording properly. Often they will trigger after the movement has left the frame and all I get is a few seconds of audio of a vehicle moving off or footsteps. Not sure if this is due to changing any of the recording settings as done above, seems to...

Actually all my cameras were set for re-encoding. I suspect this is a default setting. Changing this has eliminated the problem. Many of the other recommended settings have been implemented already such as limiting cameras to 15fps and others in the linked page. Thank you for your help! Very...

Thank you for the reply. Yes that particular camera had been set for MP4 instead of direct to disk. Here's a video in .bvr format, zipped. This is before changing settings back to "direct to disk".

Noticed over this last week or so the recording quality (when cams are triggered) varies during the recording. Image seems to pulsate between normal quality to extremely low quality pixelated video. This cycles every 2-3 seconds. I did change some audio settings in BI but I didn't notice the...

Amazon. "CCTV Microphone Security Microphone Audio Microphone Tiny Outdoor CCTV Surveillance Microphone" Google should get you close. I notice the same one I ordered is no longer there.

My order came in and I have two microphones now, no real name on them, box says "USA Sales Group Microphone for CCTV security camera", model 008. Connected power and mic to muc plug coming out of camera and I now have audio. Works really well, very sensitive. Just heard a flock of geese go over...

Never tried but wonder how well the cameras trigger with gunshots or such sudden compression sound waves. I have two cameras that trigger with sound (think I have them set up that way I believe) but I don't remember they've ever been triggered by gunshots, even when I am doing target practice...

Grn1z I have one on order. I did message Andy and he doesn't have stock on the mic(s) they carry so cheaper and quicker to order the one on Amazon.com. Tried first to order the one on Amazon.ca but doesn't ship to my location where Amazon.com does... Amazon is just wierd sometimes. Supposed to...

Grn1z I noticed that one on amazon.ca but cheaper through amazon.com. Seems to be a more complex unit than I was looking for, a bare element with solder lugs would be fine. This one also shows 600 ohm impedence instead of most with 2.2k (the one I am using now which doesn't seem to work)...

@shalem2014, I tried your link, goes to the right place but no specific mic is showing. I have an IPC-HFW4239TP-ASE cam and I would like to add a mic. Wondering which one you chose. I have a connector I can solder on to work with this camera's RCA connector for audio in. I had some electret mic...

Yes that Dahua IPC-HFW4239T-ASE should do just fine, think it says 802.11at poe. Thinking the 6mm might be a bit tight 3,6 should be fine. I'll see what Andy says. Not sure how shipping will work from HK these days.

Need something weatherPROOF, 2-4MP starlight or great in low-light, 4-6mm lens or varifocal, POE, metal case if possible. Replacing a foscam FI9804W, been up there for several years, finally died. It sits on top of a grain silo about as exposed as it can get. Bullet type preferred but could do...

No pinout in the diagram you attached was the same as the connector I have. Checked it after cam wouldn't show up on network. Just came in from outside, another camera died it would seem. This one has no issues with the connector. Seems to have just stopped working. edit/update, Success...

Well, wired up the camera to a cat6 cable (ran out of cat5 shouldn't make a difference) and tried it out. The network "seems" to see it and I can ping it, but can't seem to connect to the IP address via the web gui, and won't show up on BL using the original settings. First tried using a 12v...

@aristobrat that is exactly what I am looking for, pin 4 and 5 connect to the yellow wire. Awesome! Will try that shortly. Think what I will do is solder a length of cat5 directly to the camera wiring. Easier to seal that way, and less chance of another connection issue. I use dielectric...

Camera quit working a few days ago, finally got around to checking it out this afternoon. Found the connector all black inside, some water came out (more like mud), so obviously the weather "proof" connector did a great job of letting water in somewhere, and of course not letting it out. Using...

Just got an email from service, got everything fixed up nicely now. I had lost one of the registration keys. CPU(s) running under 14% think that was close to normal before things broke. This is without doing the optomizations in the link. Yes had to re-configure anti-virus during...

Funny that is what I just completed... Tried the BLupdateHelper, installed it a couple of days ago. It couldn't seem to access the proper files. Spent some time this afternoon doing my own troubleshooting and decided it's too far gone. Blew out the original BI install including any registry...

Still haven't heard from support. Is there still support for their software? I renewed my contract with them last February for 1 year. I can log into my Blue Iris account and view my invoices etc. Would like to get this going again, Ispy works but I paid for BI and like the software.

Emailed BL service last weekend but no response. Is there a phone number somewhere to contact them? There's some contact info in a text file in the software but it is outdated or no longer in use...

No tab, BI won't run... Rolled back windows update a month, and went back a week in Blue Iris, next step would be to go back to version 4.x somewhere. Switched to Ispy for the time being, can't afford to be without security coverage. Will have to look into this next week.

Tried 5.0.6.0, made no difference. Maybe something in the latest windoze update is targeting something in BI? I'll see if I can undo the latest update. Rolled back a week and BI still won't run. maybe will have to re-install from scratch? Is there a config file I can copy from the existing BI...

Reverting back seems like a good idea, I'll try that, but not sure myself what version I have... is there a file in the program's root directory that would have this info? Will be looking there... latest update appears to be (from their website) Version 5.0.6.3

just gives a window error: BI has stopped working, a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. Starts to the point it is showing camera views then the message above is displayed and everything stops. Window...