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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    You really want to dedicate the PC to Blue Iris, but in a pinch, you could use the PC for other tasks.
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    Drive-thru KFC in Gainsborough fines people driving past

    Yeah it would be a civil matter in the US. The property owner would have the right to remove the unauthorized vehicle from the property, but that's it.
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    Drive-thru KFC in Gainsborough fines people driving past

    Its sad to see the land of the Magna Carta using Orwell's work as a template for society.
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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    No cable/DSL at the house or just no wifi? Either an NVR or BI would need Internet access to send alerts. I've never tried operating either without Internet access, but I'm guessing that would affect both more or less equally. BI would still retain its superior flexibility in terms of recording...
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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    Blue Iris is just a lot more flexible and configurable than an NVR. I paid about $300 for an 18 month old Dell Optiplex i5 off eBay. I added a spare SSD and a 4 TB WD Purple drive. You'd have to add the hard drive to an NVR too so that's a wash. The Blue Iris software is $60 and $10 for the...
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    Audio Camera Install

    Yes. The camera digitizes audio, video, etc before sending it over the network. Bits are bits. Doesn't matter what they are.
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    I have a similar setup except I run nettime on the BI PC for serving NTP to the cameras so they have no access to my other subnets or the Internet.
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    That's a little like saying that once you allow anything through a firewall, you've defeated its purpose. Great. Now I can't access the Internet but I sure am safe. VLANs' primary purpose is to consolidate switches and switch ports by segmenting traffic at layer 2. When combined with properly...
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    Your current preferred way to access BI on cell phone?

    BI app + ngrok = fastest way in I also have VPN access to my network but ngrok has been solid in the few months I'v been using it.
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    port forwarding question

    Thanks for contributing to the DDoS and spam problem on the Internet.
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    No Mac address listed ???

    Most network devices in general don't have their MAC address printed on a sticker.
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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    Cameras like the 5231 are designed to be zoomed to one focal length and left there. They're great when the fixed lenses like 2.8, 3.6, or 6mm aren't the exact focal length you want or 6mm is too short. For actively zooming and panning to track a subject automatically, you'd want a PTZ camera...
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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    I've found that a motion sensor with a longer range will help in this situation. If they switch on while the subject is still some distance away, it'll have time to reset the exposure before they get close. I've played with some sensor lights that didn't activate until I was very close, then the...
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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    Can you post any pictures of the house and/or what areas you're trying to monitor? As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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    Rural Elevated House on Stilts - Camera System Recs Needed

    16 feet is generally too high, but the angle is more important. For example, if you had a long lens aimed at a gate 200' away, it could be fine whereas a short lens aimed at the ground 10' away would only show the tops of people's heads. How far down the stilts would you feel comfortable...
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    I'm sure different hardware has different defaults. VLANs can be used for isolation if the proper firewall rules are in place. They can also be used to have smaller broadcast domains, give one VLAN priority (like for VOIP), and other uses.
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    The Ubiquiti Edgerouter is a router. Right out of the box it.....routes. So if you have physical interfaces and three virtual ones hanging off one of the physical ones, each on their own subnet, it will happily route between them all. People have gotten themselves in trouble when one of those...
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    Yeah it can be a real PITA. You'd think enabling RDP or file sharing would automatically open the necessary firewall ports, but not always.
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    Running Ethernet Cables

    This is what I'm doing for two cameras that will require running cables outdoors. I'm currently in the process of priming and painting 40' of 3/4" schedule 40 conduit. It's a lot of work but should blend in pretty well when done.
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    I actually don't use RDP in this case but I log into the web UI of each camera and the BI web UI. Start with the basics. Can you ping the BI PC from your other VLAN? Disable the Windows firewall on the BI PC and see if anything changes. It could be the Windows firewall blocking RDP.
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    Do you record 24/7 or motion only?

    Yes. The headlights tend to pass quickly so a longer make time lets the quick 1-2 second brightness spikes pass without a trigger. For the the windy shadows, the shadow isn't really covering much ground, its just waving back and forth. So a longer distance traveled threshold can help with...
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    Do you record 24/7 or motion only?

    I've found that lengthening the make time is very useful in avoiding triggers from car headlights sweeping across my front yard at night. Using a longer "object travels" distance helps in windy conditions when shadows from shrubs are moving around or the shadows suddenly appear/disappear as the...
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    Remoting to Blue Iris PC from different VLAN?

    It depends on your firewall rules. Unless you create any, the EdgeRouter will happily route between any and all directly connected networks. I have my cameras and BI PC on VLAN 140. I have a set of firewall rules under VLAN140_IN that restrict devices on that VLAN from reaching other networks or...
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    Do you record 24/7 or motion only?

    But the ONE time something happens, you'll wish you had video. Disk space is cheap.
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    Do you record 24/7 or motion only?

    8 cams = 24x7 1 cam in garage is motion only
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    Blue Iris behind someone elses firewall

    The only issue with TeamViewer is that it can use a lot of CPU. Changing the "limit live preview rate" under Options, Cameras can help a lot though. I have mine set to 2 fps which is enough to see what's going on, but keep the CPU usage down.
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    Who to hire to mount cameras?

    Yeah I think most people would mount too-few cameras too-high and call it a day. I know that was my original "plan". I can't say I got all of my cameras mounted as low as I'd like, but I definitely got them lower than I expected before finding this site. Mine range from about 5.5' at the front...
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    Do you hide your hard drive?

    I have a similar PC for BI. It sits on a shelf under a desk in my home office. I also have 4 other desktop PCs here at the moment (2 running) so the odds of someone taking that one are somewhat low because desktop PCs aren't known to be worth a lot of money. I also have an SD card in each camera.
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    Who to hire to mount cameras?

    I see soooooooo many bald spot cameras around. I presume many of them were installed by professionals who just took the easy route.
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    Blue Iris behind someone elses firewall

    How do they define that? I've been using the free one for months and never been unable to connect when needed.
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