Recent content by marinenickel

Thanks will take a look at that.

I'd like to place a camera in this area (towards the front of house forward of the door), but as you can see there is no eve to help protect the camera. Any ideas on what type of camera and how to best protect it? This camera would be watching the side gate/truck.

Thanks, will take a look. I remember using a tool in the past to allow applications to run as a service.

Any chance of having BIT run as a service? I don't stay logged into the PC that is running BI.

Thanks, I will take a look at these links.

I might have to see about returning it then, though I do have a porch light on either side of the garage doors.

Ah I see, didn't realize the scope of the marketplace. Hopefully this camera will server its purpose for some time then. Next time I know where to go.

I was thinking about putting it there, just trying to figure out how to route the cable cleanly. I figured a dome camera was better for this situation. Also, I got the camera from aliexpress.com, which appears to be recommended by most people around here. Edit: This camera quality from testing...

I want to add a camera outside that watches my driveway. The only issue I have is the way the house is built, there are no good placement options for the camera. I have a Dahua HDBW4631R-ZS and Junction box which makes it stick out pretty far. I have a CAT6 w/POE on the other side of the...

While not recommended, there are a few people that run BI as a VM, myself included. Currently I run it on a C2100 (L5630) with 4 cameras. CPU generally runs in the 45% range. I'm planning on adding a few more cameras in the future so I will likely be switching to a dedicated PC or upgrading my...

They are stored as MP4's as I have JPG's + plus a short clip emailed to myself when an alert is triggered. However it appears that BI will send me the clips as MP4 regardless what the recording format is. Let me change this over first to see if it addresses my issue. Edit: K-Lite Codecs did not...

Just starting to use ui3 and am getting an error when attempting to view Alerts and/or Clips. I get "The Viedo stream was lost. Attempting to reconnect..." a few times then it ultimately ends with "The video stream was lost. Due to rapid failures, automatic reconnection will not occur.". This...