Recent content by bconrey

Based on the (excellent) advice I continue to receive from this site, I recently purchased a Bosch PIR sensor to use in place of the in-camera motion sensor in my Dahua cameras. Unfortunately my Dahua turret cameras lack 'alarm in' so I'm looking for creative options for how I could trigger BI...

Thanks, lots of good info and ideas. Much appreciated. I'll research further and may have follow-up questions. Regarding the location and position of the camera, it's not perfect but what I had to work with. Combination of the coverage I was trying to accomplish plus minimizing the bleed from...

Struggling to resolve a high false-positive rate for motion detection on my driveway cam and could use some tips from the pros. Our front yard has tall palm trees which cast long shadows in the morning and big shadows mid-day. Our area is breezy and the movement of the trees trips the motion...

A follow-up on this, with now a couple weeks under my belt. Mostly an update for the guys like me who will come across this thread in the future while trying to figure out how to build their system. My ProDesk was a great deal but has certain challenges with its SFF footprint. I read the specs...

Found a factory refurb HP ProDesk 400 G3 with i5-6500 and 4Gb plus 128ssd for ~$360 after education discount. A few bucks for another 4Gb plus a purple drive for video and I should be all set. I'm sure there are threads regarding hard drive sizing; I'm going to go search for them now and would...

Great info again, thanks. Was hoping to upgrade some of the other PCs in the house as part of this project but it looks like I'll need to come up with a different excuse for that!

Thanks for the help and perspective. Looks like my first gen i5 pre-dates Quicksync so that's a no-go. One last question on this topic - I have another PC which has an AMD A10-6790k with 16Gb of memory. Of course, it does not have quicksync and I know that Intel processors generally fare better...

Just getting started with Blue Iris. I'll have 6-7 cameras to start, no real plans to grow beyond that (always a possibility of course). Rather than buying a new PC just for this purpose, I noticed my kids have an older Inspiron desktop that I upgraded to an i5 (760 maybe?) and 8 Gb RAM a couple...