Blue Iris Dahua NVR

97JeepXJ said:
Mine seems to work with with Brave, IE, and Pale Moon just fine. Tried incognito/private mode? Clear browser data?
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I didn't try private mode, but Explorer was completely clean of cookies, browser, etc.
 
wittaj said:
Do you recall any other feature you needed to check to get the alert images?

I have snapshot enabled and everything I could see enabled LOL.
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I’ve looked around, I don’t think so. I have seen same screen as you on occasion flipping between browsers. Plug-in issue?
 
bigredfish said:
I’ve looked around, I don’t think so. I have seen same screen as you on occasion flipping between browsers. Plug-in issue?
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It was a clean open of IE using the hack to get to it. I installed the necessary plug-ins when prompted.

I will try incognito/private tomorrow and see if maybe that works
 
Flintstone61 said:
Select the "add new camera" selection from the "gear icon" by right clicking the gear. input the IP address and User/Password of the NVR. you'll have to change the Port number 8999 to 80 and the RSTP port to 554, if they are not listed that way already.
Then if you click on "Find/ Inspect"
it should populate its results showing something like I have shown here. then you can select a CAm # like
1 or 2 or 3 etc....for
Do this for each camera changing the Cam# for each new cam.
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back from the dead
i tried this
it says it cant open port 80
My NVR is a Dahua NVR5208-8P-4KS2E
When i have it up and running it tells me the ip is 192.160.1.108
BI tells me it cant open port 80
Im to the point of getting an unmanaged switch and running one leg into the nvr and one into the BI machine
 
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I can pull cams in fine. I doubt it, but have to ask.. Can BI pull recorded video from the NVR? Playing with BI in hopes of replacing DSS.

Thanks!

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spunner said:
I can pull cams in fine. I doubt it, but have to ask.. Can BI pull recorded video from the NVR? Playing with BI in hopes of replacing DSS.

Thanks!

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Unfortunately, no it cannot pull recorded video from the NVR.
 
hubbs1982 said:
Does it make sense to record everything on the NVR and then use BI to record events separately?

Does BI use the AI/IVS rules programmed into the camera?
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People with both record to both as redundancy.

Yes BI can use the AI of the camera to trigger.
 
I don't use both for redundancy, but because one does some things better, and the other does other things better.
 
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Just a high-level list:
BI does better: Real time camera viewing, scanning through clips, timeline playback.
NVR does better: Easier initial setup, shows IVS trigger lines, works better for nitpicking clips like single stepping and saving snapshots.

Important note, I do not use the native UI on either. It's smartPSS with the NVR and UI3 with BI.
In practice, time-wise, I use BI the majority of the time. When I want to closely investigate triggers, I switch to smartPSS. I look at BI multiple times in a day. I use smartPSS only a few times a week, but the specific things I use it for work a lot better. They both have some fantastic features, as well as dumb design items and/or bugs. Fortunately, the bad parts of one are ok or even great on the other.
 
And on the counter side, I personally find BI easier to setup. In this past year I rebuilt my BI from scratch when I upgraded computers and have installed two NVRs for neighbors and the BI was way faster. But it is a YMMV situation and many here are more comfortable setting up and NVR, just as some are more comfortable setting up BI.

The NVR does benefit from "plug-n-play" of simply plugging the camera in to a port and the NVR finds it. There are a few more steps required for BI. But after that you have to get into the camera GUI for either system if you want to maximize the results.

I find in the BI console, that single stepping forward and backwards and saving snapshots is better than the NVR. Is there even an backwards single step option in SmartPSS?
 
Does UI3 have single step capability? If it does, could you point me to it? smartPSS can play and single step backward. The one maddening thing that makes playback and stepping a lot more difficult is that every time the playback hits a trigger, any zoom and pan is lost. Makes for a lot of cussing while still able to get the job done. On the setup, I run an external switch, but assigning and setting up IP addresses is kind of a natural thing for me, so that's not a part of our setup difficulty opinions.
 
I disagree with this and have proven it in timed tests with others here. Glad to do it again

BI does better: Real time camera viewing, scanning through clips, timeline playback.

The biggest benefit of BI is to be able to work better with a variety of manufacturer cameras mixed. Whereas the NVR works best with matching the cameras to the NVR manufacturer
 
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