Recent content by mikecorr

Thanks for you quick and complete reply, A. Guy. I was also concerned about wireless bandwidth. I did not know about the other shortcomings of wireless cameras.

I'm sure this is a BI 101 type of question - but can I add wireless cameras to my BI installation, which currently consists of only POE cameras? Is it true than any camera with an IP address can be added, assuming the system has sufficient processor, memory and disk space? In my specific case...

Reporting back on these IP over coax converters. They worked great for about two months - now they drop their signal regularly. I have four cameras set up on Blue Iris - 2 Dahua IP cameras (w/cat6) and 2 Dahua IP's with coax converters. The IP/cat6 cameras work consistently, but the two with...

The IP over coax converters worked great. Thanks so much the the suggestion. I can control zoom thru the browser, but not yet thru Blue Iris, so I have some configuration work to do, but this is a great start.

Yes - it was my Xfinity default gateway of 10.0.0.1 that was the issue. Nobody was home at 192.168.anything. Editing the IP via the Dahua config tool did the trick. I've actually never seen this before since Xfinity is new to me. I can see the camera on a browser and on Blue Iris now.

I have one test camera connected and appears to be communicating based on the cat v cable indicator lights, but it doesn't appear in Find/Inspect and I cannot browse to it at 192.168.1.108. I will look thru the Blue Iris documentation for suggestions.

Thanks for the guidance. Cameras should be here tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.

I have been trying to get familiar with Blue Iris, while waiting for my new Dahua cameras to arrive. Should I be concerned that my camera model(s) are not listed on the configuration form? It appears I would need to select *Main Stream RTSP. Should I have purchased different cameras to insure...

Is it true that if I get an ePOE camera like this, I only need the receiver end of the converter (like this)? Sorry for the newbie questions; lots to learn.

That sounds like a $69 win-win to me. Will definitely give it a try. I was looking at a fixed lens for the coax, so now I can get real cameras.

Thanks for the feedback @sebastiantombs & @wittaj. I will look into Blue Iris (probably try out a demo first); I was not sure what hardware was required to connect the coax cameras, but perhaps with the IP over coax converters, that is not an issue. When using the IP over coax converters...

I need to update the security camera system at a house I recently purchased. There are two existing coax cameras with cables run in locations were I cannot reasonably run new cat V cable. So I will be stuck with 2 HD cameras, but any future cameras will be IP. I checked the existing coax &...

These are the parts I was missing. Thanks.

Where in the product specifications would it be shown If an NVR needs a separate PoE switch to power the cameras? For example, I need a hybrid HDCVI DVR and was looking at the Dahua X82B2A; looking at the spec sheet, it's I'm not sure if has integrated PoE ports (but I suspect it does not)...