Recent content by sakau

This was the ticket. :clap: Sorry for not responding to you other helper bees. I did appreciate the help but life was busy and didn't have time to come back to the thread.

I bought a Dahua PTZ camera a few months ago and have been unable to get the PTZ functionality to work within Blue Iris or the webUI3. If I log into the camera directly using its IP address, I can use the PTZ controls... but it does not work in Blue Iris on my computer or the app. What settings...

I am setting up Blue Iris for the first time and want to make sure I am using the best mobile app on iPhone to view my cameras, alerts, triggers that I have set up on my Windows Blue Iris machine. It is the $9.99 app called Blue Iris that I should be getting, correct? I don't want to pay $10 if...

Well, about the only place that I imagine it would work is at my mailbox. It would be the closest to the stopped cars (less than 25 feet behind the stop sign) , approximately the same level as the license plates, and not much of an angle. If I were to put the camera anywhere on the front of my...

I was planning on using something with batteries, but I have been talked in to just running the darn ethernet cables. I'm still not exactly sure how to do it, but I will read up from the posts that have been suggested to me and perhaps cross this bridge another day as it isn't SUPER urgent.

Not that difficult? I think we must have different views about difficult, lol. My network rack is on the lower level on the far corner of the house from the mailbox. It would be like a 200 foot run that would I assume have to be buried or well-hidden through a yard and/or driveway... not to...

I live on a corner of a kind of busy road and quiet neighborhood street. If possible, I'd like to place a camera that was able to capture license plates of cars coming and going. There is a stop sign, so it should be pretty easy to capture I would think. The issues are that I don't have ethernet...

Last year I ran a bunch of cat cable to the corners of my house so I could put cameras up at a later date, and that later date has arrived, at least partially. I am expecting a total of 8-10 cameras by system's end, but am only looking to add 2 or 3 tops at the moment (~$500 total budget)...

There are two drive slots; One is a 256GB SSD where Windows10 and BI are installed. The other is a 1TB HDD that came with the unit. I can probably get by removing this drive and replacing it with a WD Purple 8TB (or larger) drive. Then, in addition to that, I should pick up a NAS and a WD Red...

Not sure on the number of cameras. I imagine I will slowly add to the system. I could see eventually having 8-12 cameras. I am not utilizing substreams (or really anything) in Blue Iris right now. I've barely played with it at all. Just enough to see the breadth of options and how it operates...

Just upgraded from the garbage that my ISP provided my wife to a Unifi Dream Machine setup. Love it,

Hey guys. I currently run a Plex server for my media around the home from my main desktop PC. For this reason, I leave it on 24/7, and it is kind of a power hog. I've recently upgraded my network and am in the process of buying cameras for a home surveillance system. I bought a Dahua Starlight...

For now, I think I will just use my PC as the NAS as I just start the system out; Once I start adding more cameras, I will likely look towards building a new system. I downloaded Blue Iris 5 to see how it would work. I have not yet ordered an IP camera, but I do have a Logitech webcam laying...

No worries there. I love Windows and Linux kinda scares me :) Truth be told, I haven't. But once I get off work tonight, I plan on doing a lot of reading. Internet forums are such goldmines for hobbyists.

This could be huge for me! I wasn't really aware this was an option. I already have a PC that I leave on 24/7 because it acts as a NAS. I have 8 drive slots available to me. I could easily sacrifice 2 of those slots and drop a pair of 4-6 TB drives in for plenty of storage. Seems like this could...