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I have Blue Iris set to delete clips when the storage reaches a certain size. This is weird, but it seems Blue Iris is not properly deleting clips from about the last two weeks of each month. When I go back and look at the clips, each of the past several months has clips from the last couple...

What does the setting "only for confirmed vehicle alerts" do? I sure do with this stuff was better documented. That option and many other settings don't even appear in the Blue Iris documentation at all. :confused:

Ok, I enabled alerts for the camera, and now it's sending images. Ok, apparently the plate recognition is tied to the alerts feature. It's weird then that the settings for it are on the "Trigger" page in the camera settings. Ok, I'll keep on working with it.

When there is motion, it triggers it to record video, and that is working (videos get recorded when cars drive by). I'm not currently using "alerts", just triggering.

I can't seem to get Plate Recognizer to run with Blue Iris 5.5. Plate Recognizer still shows 0 API calls and nothing on the dashboard. This is what I did the set it up: Settings -> AI -> Plate Recognizer -> "Enabled" (checked), and "Cloud API with Token" selected with my API key entered...

I do prefer wired cameras, but I don't think wifi is that unreliable. We used a wireless Foscam camera for years and it worked well enough. I think that Amcrest camera that you linked to is indoors, but I did find an outdoor one they have at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VF8839T/ that I'm...

I just need something to use as a temporary and moveable camera to monitor the kids while they're outside. So I'm just looking for something cheap and simple.

Did you find anything? I'm looking for a wifi outdoor camera for Blue Iris also, and all I'm finding is lots of people asking for them and no one replying with any suggestions.

I'm also looking for an outdoor wifi IP cam with audio that plays nice with Blue Iris. I don't need the other ONVIF stuff that you need, so I'm curious if the HeimVision HM311 is a good choice if I'm just looking for an outdoor wifi IP cam to use with Blue Iris?

Yeah, I would just prefer to have a turret camera if I can. The distance for ours is about 30-40 feet, so the 16mm zoom seems to be about all we need.

Thanks for the replies. I learned a lot. I didn't even know "LPR" was a thing. I have a lot more reading I need to do now.

I have a Dahua (Loryta) IPC-T5442TM-AS that I would like to put a zoom lens on (probably 16mm) to use it for being able to see license plate numbers at night. Is it possible to put a zoom lens on this? Or is this not a good camera to try to use for that?

It's always tricky trying to figure out what the current best cameras are on here since there's just so much information. I'm just looking for the best camera for low light with a fixed lens. I'm ok with turret or bullet, etc. I've seen the IPC-T5442TM-AS mentioned, but it's 4MP and I thought...