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I'm considering putting one of my cams online as a weather camera. A decade ago, Weatherunderground was a popular place for weather cams. Where do the weather cams go these days? I'm using BI5. What technologies are generally required to safely expose one camera stream? Thanks Robert P.S. Here...

RTFM, got it! ;) Thanks. I've been using BI4 for quite a few years and never noticed about groups. You are right though, the Blue Iris doc is some of the best I have seen. Always has been.

Wow, huge set of options that can be configured! Hadn't seen those before. Thanks so much. You mention camera groups. Where are those groups defined?

I've just started using UI3 on a Fire tablet that is dedicated to showing cameras and I'm extremely pleased. It's currently using Silk as the browser. It is in our family room. It would be fantastic if some sort of audible sound or announcement could be sent to the tablet when a camera triggers...

Mainly only the enabled status I can use the following http command to disable (enable=0) or enable (enable=1) the camera. http://192.168.0.18:8081admin?camera=cam_2&enable=0&user=xxxxxx&pw=yyyyyy I just want to be able to query that status, by camera.

I just migrated to BI5 from BI4. My BI system is integrated with HomeSeer for home automation and security. All of the interfacing is via http calls. The one area where I am a bit blind is camera status. I can set the camera status (enabled/disabled) via http just fine. But.. I don't know of any...

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!! Punching a hole in windows defender worked. Thanks so much! Robert

I've been a BI4 user on Windows 8 & 10 for several years. I'm closely integrated with Homeseer so I use http commands from BI4 to HS3 and in reverse for triggers and profile changes. I've not had any real motivation to move to BI5 until recently when I decided to move BI to its own server...

I was thinking of something smaller along the lines of the Wyze cube camera.

Hello all. I've been using BI for a number of years with good success. 3 cams and it just runs. Very happy. The wife has challenged me to add another camera that will record/alert a hummingbird feeder just outside of one of the windows. It is also the window she sees when sitting in her favorite...

Like Randy, I also have been working with the ESP8266 nodeMCU version of the Arduino. As we noted earlier, you need power and comms for a remote device. The ESP solves the comms issue without cables but it still needs power. What I really like about this solution is that if I can find a sensor...

On the Record tab for the cameras, under Options, you can set a Pre-trigger video buffer in seconds. You might play around with that. Do note though that in the Help documentation it talks about enabling this can impact performance so keep that in mind as you test.

@bp2008 made a better remote view page. I don't use it but it gets a lot of attention and the thread discussing it is 53 pages long so you likely can learn anything you might want to know about it. I made a better remote-live-view page

I don't use z-wave (I'm insteon based) but I know it works great with HomeSeer. Interface is a z-stick plus. Not an inexpensive option but a super flexible and expandable option. I'm a really impressed and satisfied user. I think it checks all your boxes.

David, In terms of home automation and hooking all the parts together, you have proposed a uniquely difficult situation. First, you have locations that are 100+ feet from your house. To do this, you need two things. First is power, the second is communications. Just take the mailbox. Do you...