10 cameras - Intel Core i5-4690K Processor 3.5 GHz

Tygunn

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Once you get your sea legs with BI, I'm curious to hear your thoughts of its Motion Detection vs Dahua's IVS (especially Intrusion Detection, if you had any experience with that).
I set up motion detection in two zones on my front cameras:
1. Street/sidewalk -- this captures cars going by and pedestrians walking around. I figure these would help in a situation where a neighbor asks, "Hey did you see a blue camry go by?" or something like that.
2. Premise intrusion -- for the driveway and street cam, this is an area far in from the sidewalk, and for the front door, this is basically someone standing at the front door.
The multiple zones are great; I wish I cold name them and filter on them.

For the side of the house cameras, I'm using similar motion zones as I did on the Dahua NVR.

So far BI is doing a much better job than the Dahua IVS did, for a few reasons:
1. The event recording in BI starts on time, not 10 seconds after the event. So if someone walks up to the house, I can see them approaching, not just as they're walking away.
2. There are fewer false triggers. There are plants and a fig tree along the sides of the house and shadows and leaves in the breeze caused a few false triggers per day with IVS using line crossing.
3. It catches more things. I found IVS will miss some things entirely. So far BI has a leg up in that department.
 

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Great to hear @Tygunn , took the plunge today and ordered an blue Iris computer. I have outgrown fighting the Dahua 4K NVR
If you aren't returning the Dahua NVR you might as well just keep it recording 24/7, not triggered by events. Then you've got a backup, which is always nice. :)
 

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If you aren't returning the Dahua NVR you might as well just keep it recording 24/7, not triggered by events. Then you've got a backup, which is always nice. :)
Not a bad idea. Didn't know you could have two systems running. Although I was planning on taking the hard drives out and using them in the Dell and selling the NVR. The budget on my system has exploded since the start :)
 

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Not a bad idea. Didn't know you could have two systems running. Although I was planning on taking the hard drives out and using them in the Dell and selling the NVR. The budget on my system has exploded since the start :)
Yup, I've got my cameras hooked up to both. It seems to work just fine so far.

Hah, yeah I hear you on the budget. My camera system is way over budget. I'm glad my old Intel i5 system works just fine with Blue Iris.
 

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Hah, yeah I hear you on the budget. My camera system is way over budget. I'm glad my old Intel i5 system works just fine with Blue Iris.
I "borrowed" an old Alienware system my roommate had sitting on a shelf. It has an i7-3770 and running at about 12% CPU with five Dahua 5231 turrets (3 recording 24/7, the others recording on Motion Detection) and one Hik 3MP dome (also on Motion Detection, and gloriously not causing any reboots).

I'm only about an hour into play with BI, but impressed enough to buy it. Motion Detection seems tunable enough to meet (and probably beat) Dahua IVS, which I loved.

Now my only meh is BI not being able to do h.265 with my Dahuas, which means less record time on the HDD. Hopefully BI can get that figured out sooner than later. :)

Also haven't found a way that looks quite as nice as the iDMSS iOS app to display all of the cameras on iOS devices.

@Tygunn, thanks for jumping on this and posting your progress. It was the nudge I needed to try it myself!
 

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I "borrowed" an old Alienware system my roommate had sitting on a shelf. It has an i7-3770 and running at about 12% CPU with five Dahua 5231 turrets (3 recording 24/7, the others recording on Motion Detection) and one Hik 3MP dome (also on Motion Detection, and gloriously not causing any reboots).

I'm only about an hour into play with BI, but impressed enough to buy it. Motion Detection seems tunable enough to meet (and probably beat) Dahua IVS, which I loved.

Now my only meh is BI not being able to do h.265 with my Dahuas, which means less record time on the HDD. Hopefully BI can get that figured out sooner than later. :)

Also haven't found a way that looks quite as nice as the iDMSS iOS app to display all of the cameras on iOS devices.

@Tygunn, thanks for jumping on this and posting your progress. It was the nudge I needed to try it myself!
Buy the BI companion iPhone app. It's worth the $10......
 

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Your load should be lower..are you using hardware acceleration? Are you viewing on a local monitor? are you still running the demo?
Where is this 'hardware acceleration' setting? Is that a V4 only thing?
 

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yes..if you are still running v3, you should upgrade...tons of new features.
Ya, I was going to try to skip V4 and buy V5 because I just bought V3 the year before V4 came out, maybe I'll have to rethink that, LOL!
 

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Ya, I was going to try to skip V4 and buy V5 because I just bought V3 the year before V4 came out, maybe I'll have to rethink that, LOL!
Makes no sense the upgrade is 30 bucks... You're shooting yourself in the foot...
 
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