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Lately the Blue Iris News and Update popup window has been appearing in the middle of my screen, blocking a large amount of my camera views. I have to go to a remote location to dismiss the popup. I don't recall this happening in the past, or if it did it was very infrequent. This popup has...

I did search but I didn’t find anything. Most likely I’m not using the right search terms. Using the Blue Iris App, I used to be able to connect to my Blue Iris PC while on my LAN via Wi-Fi without enabling OpenVPN. It would connect and show cameras within a second or two. Now it struggles to...

Same issue with me. I'm sharing my story mostly to let the gurus on this site know that they help alot of people! Thank you! Must have had a brief power outage, PC was at the Windows boot splash screen when I got home. Blue Iris only showed clips from 8-25-2022 and before (today is 10-14-2022)...

IE needed for Dahua camera settings: A couple of weeks ago I disabled Windows updates on my Blue Iris PC (Windows Pro needed for this AFAIK). It's been noted on this forum and elsewhere that IE will be going away. Meaning Microsoft will force you to use Edge (true?) My thinking: I can keep IE...

Optimizing Blue Iris's CPU Usage Specifically sentence in red (below): From wiki: * Hardware accelerated decoding If your CPU supports Intel® Quick Sync Video, then you can use hardware acceleration in Blue Iris to reduce CPU and energy usage significantly with any camera streaming H.264. If...

So what is it about IE that works and other browsers don't. Inquiring minds want to know. :) Why can't Dahua make their cameras work with the latest browsers? IE isn't getting any younger or getting updates anymore. Saying IE is still there, is fine for now, but what about a year or more from...

I'm running Windows 10 Pro on my BI PC. I allow the PC to update Windows 10. If most of you disable updates, do you then manually update? Recently, on my BI PC and other PCs, I have been getting notifications that my current WIndows 10 build will no longer be supported, an update is needed. I...

So the solution is to reformat the SD card when the camera starts rebooting? Do you have to physically remove the SD card to reformat? I don't have one of these cameras yet, but it seems like an issue Dahua should fix (good luck with that I suppose :) ). Seems like a pain to deal with. Alternate...

@rustynut , see the wiki here on Dual NIC setup Dual NIC setup on your Blue Iris Machine Back on topic, I've had BI for probably 4-5 years. Had a Hikvision NVR before that. It lasted maybe one year before it died. Based on information on this site, I bought a used PC (per Fenderman's...

Holbs eluded to the answer. Get a varifocal. Not much more money than a fixed lens. You can adjust the varifocal based on the area you want to see. Then, if you need/want, you can move it to another location and be able to adjust the field of view for that location. Why not get this...

I love when Yahoo does stuff like this: Change access requirements and and not tell anyone. My email stopped downloading about a week ago. I leaarned from a previous Yahoo requirement (untrusted apps or some such thing). So I was smart enough to log into Yahoo and saw app password. Had it...

Looking at empiretechandy's cameras, the model numbers are slightly different than listed above. I understand Andy sells Dahua under his Loryta brand. As an example, is the Dahua IPC-HDW5542TM-ASE the same as Andy's Loryta IPC-T5442TM-AS? HDW vs T, ASE vs AS. Thanks.

So when I said wide view, I meant views from cameras properly set up to ID people. That's part of the setup, right? Get the faces, get the plates. Multiple cameras set up specifically for those purposes. Police aren't going to do anything about the small stuff in my city. But If I had a license...

Why do you need/want these extra services? Let your cameras do their thing. If you wake up the next day to find a car was broken in to, or a package taken, pull up the wide camera view. Find the incident. Then pull up the LPR camera view at the same time. BAM! Got the plate! I don't care about...

FYI: I'm not using the weather app and still have the problem. Does this mean it's not Wunderground?