Recent content by Matthew Hudnall

Should be working again now. The best route though is to get a Fire TV stick and side load the Android app. Requires input switching on your TV, but the result is pretty solid. Also, if you have $400-500 to burn, you could buy an HDMI to QAM modulator to inject the FireTV (or a Raspberry Pi)...

TiVo changed their UI and this method no longer works so I took down the YouTube video.

Nice! I wish more TVs had open APIs like that!

Great work so far, I really like where this project is going!

Vettester, your setup sounds really neat! You are lucky that your TV has an API like that. You should share your modded scripts back on Github in case others want to do a similar setup. As for continuous running, I don’t see an issue other than the increased CPU usage. If there are no browser...

A few recommendations: - Make sure you have already followed the guide here for optimization of BI (frame rate reduction on the cameras, turning off overlays, etc) - Check the apps that start up with your system and turn as many off as you reasonably can - Add an exclusion for BI in your...

If your issue is getting feedstock from a remote site to your main site then reduce your frame rates and edit one of the 3 streaming profiles to cap the bandwidth based on your upload bandwidth. If your issue is related to multiple remote users not being able to consume your feeds due to...

The light bulb cameras really do suck. In addition to sub-par video quality, they require the power switch to be on all the time. Their light bulbs also are of VERY poor quality and won’t match color-wise with anything else you have in the same room. So it is really hard to recommend any of them...

I would return that camera as well and get something else. The ItTiot cam is a rebranded crappy camera though (with a terrible name). I reversed imaged searched the cam picture and I found a similar one that has Onvif support from Utalent (sworn nemesis of ItTiot)...

It looks like QSee DVRs supports RTSP out streams: https://qsee.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get/145142/1375920195/redirect/1/filename/QC-RTSP%20setup(1).pdf You should be able to send that to BI without an issue it you follow that guide.

If you are a Tivo and Blue Iris user, this might be helpful: First off, this hack is not very good, but I find it somewhat useful. I am able to view JPEG shots from by BI cams to my Tivo clients (Roamio & Tivo Minis) without having to switch remotes, inputs, etc.. Tivo killed MP4 streaming and...

I am loving UI3 as well. I just found the URL parameters (like ui3.htm?maximize=1) and that really helps out. One of the best use cases though for the Android app over UI3 though is when you are not at home. Since the app resolves the external IP using the BI server, you don't have to have your...

This method will only work for devices that run Android and allow for sideloaded unsecured apps. Rokus run a flavor of Linux which isn't compatible with Android. Depending on the Samsung TV, it may or may not be running Android. Some older Samsung TVs run Android, so they may work (see this...

Switching to 21.20.16.4664 also solved my CPU/Ram issues. I was at 95%+ cpu and 35% GPU for 8 cameras and after the driver install I am steadily at 18% CPU. Ram was ballooning to 6-7GB and now I am at a constant 4GB usage. The recent fall Windows updates apparently forced graphics driver updates...

Alright, BlueIris is the greatest security cam software that I have ever used, BUT there has been a big hole in their ecosystem for a while: the big screen! Some users have used the app TinyCam, HDMI cables from tablets, or other mechanisms, but I love my BI app and I wanted to use it on my...