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    Blue Iris and Synology

    Splashtop handles live video quite well. It was originally designed to let you use your iPad to remotely play games running on a PC. The Personal version is $18/year - Remote Desktop App for Mobile Devices - Splashtop Personal Also, why are you recording 24/7? You'll significant by recording...
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    Wyze Cam v2 - Anyone Tested - $19.99 - good reviews!

    I'm going to give that a try. I'm not impressed with the video quality. But for the $25 I paid I didn't expect to be. It's definitely usable though. Thing is, you can buy 4-6 of these for the price of 1 Hikvision Cube. Sometimes it's not so much quality video as having any video at all. Being...
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    Wyze Cam v2 - Anyone Tested - $19.99 - good reviews!

    I don't suppose you could provide the RTSP settings, or even possibly install BlueIris and provide the exact ones you use to get it working in your lab? For $25 its in "why not" price range. Something to stream your fish tank with or whatever. If the picture quality is good, wouldn't mind...
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    BI running VERY high CPU 95%+ (see Pic)

    Install a cheap video card. It won't help with BI recording and such, but it will offload the BlueIris interface and can help with remote control software. Splashtop for example benefits from NVidia acceleration. You can look for a card that doesn't require an extra power cord plugged into it to...
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    BI running VERY high CPU 95%+ (see Pic)

    Simple truth, people that answer phones, reply on social media, or man the forums in nearly all cases have these jobs because they lack the skills and understanding for better positions. Oh, and work in retail sales. Put it another way, these jobs pay minimum wage. Anyone with technical...
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    cpu utilization of BI process rises up to 100%

    Right click on the start button, select device manager, find the display adapter, right click it, select update driver, then browse, then let me pick, then (at the botton) Microsoft Basic. After downgrading to that, run the Intel installer and it should work.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    First Impression - HUGE improvement. Enough to justify the upgrade to BIv5 by itself. One of BlueIris' big shortcomings is that it doesn't provide a way to present a unified view of several BlueIris servers at once. A small business owner with a few locations for example. So, suggestion for...
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    Is BI GPU enabled?

    Sure the performance issues are related to lack of a better GPU. Whether NVidia (CUDA), AMD (OpenCL, ports from CUDA), or some non-existant more powerful Intel or 3rd party doesn't matter. Integrated graphics are weak compared to the alternatives. Compressing and decompressing h.264 / h.265 is...
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    Recovery of BI settings and registration from registry file

    Thanks, but I wasn't the one who bought it. And the person that did is believes in "inbox zero". Oh well, life happens. Should have been better prepared.
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    Recovery of BI settings and registration from registry file

    Had a hard drive fail. I was able to recover the registry file and export the BI keys. Importing them and then installing BI on a new system gets me an expired Demo though. For lack of time, I've already bought a new BI registration key and rebuilt the system. Wouldn't mind recovering the old...
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    Viewing Remotely from LAN not working, but is via WAN

    You don't HAVE to use the AT&T router. You can disable it's WiFi, add your own router, and either set your router as the "DMZ", forward specific ports to your router, or maybe ask AT&T if their router/modem combo can be set to "bridge mode". I personally would do that anyway. Having your own...
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    Local Console gets "stuck"

    We have a monitor always on with the cameras set to full screen view. If someone's in the office, they're hopefully keeping an eye on the cameras. Every great so often, the view freezes. It's not the program, I can hit ESC or right click and uncheck Maximize frame. Recordings are happening...
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    Is BI GPU enabled?

    If 99.9% doesn't need or want NVidia acceleration, you wouldn't have so many people asking for help with performance problems. But you do. So, maybe, there's more than .1% that want it? Take a step into other peoples shoes for a change. I don't have any 4K cameras, and I don't run anything at...
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    Is BI GPU enabled?

    I may disagree with you on some things, but that's 100% true :)
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    Is BI GPU enabled?

    Which is why you have a never ending stream of people bitching about BI performance problems, begging for help improving it, and getting told a mix of "you don't need that" (and are stupid to think you do) and "turn off stuff" (that they may think they need) I'm a small business user, and I...
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    BI with private/anonymous VPN

    Run your torrents and PIA inside VirtualBox, using a drive mapped to a folder on the local system so that you can isolate it from the rest of your network while still easily accessing your files. Regularly reset the image to it's initial state. Run your torrents on a separate machine connected...
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    Saving a little power by writing to SSD first?

    The amount of money saved would be negligible. The added wear and tear to the HDD from the constant temperature changes could be significant. A WD Purple uses about 6W of power when it's active. According to the Energy.gov calculator, using that much power 24/265 would cost an "average" of...
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    CPU Usage Issues

    If you aren't viewing it, it uses 0 traffic. It's just a different set of quality settings. Like switching a printer from color to black and white.
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    BI with private/anonymous VPN

    PIA just encrypts between your device and their server. They don't add encryption from their server to the internet. They don't put a remote device inside your home network. They show the internet their server IP instead of yours. They don't hide your computer's "Fingerprint" from advertisers...
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    Blue Iris Hardare Requirements

    Recompressing video is very CPU intensive. Direct-to-disk recording does not recompress video. Therefore it is not CPU intensive. Try recording direct-to-disk before looking for alternatives. You'll maintain original video quality and reduce your CPU usage. It's also worth noting that even...
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    unable to open file: 80000002

    I know this reply is 6 months too late, but I thought I'd post it anyway on the chance it might help someone stumbling on the post with a google search (like I just did) When running as a service, it's logged in as "Local System". That account may not have access to the folder locations on the...
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    Software decoding w/ power video card?

    Wasting resources is a complete non-issue in this situation. In other situations, I understand that it's important. In this one, performance is what matters. We've had issues with sexual harassment, card skimming, register dipping, "lost card" fraud, and a couple of robberies. Based on those...
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    Software decoding w/ power video card?

    The problem is that my "approach" is that I want to record at the maximum possible frame rates and quality with all bells and whistles in use. I couldn't care less about power, noise, or heat because the systems are in loud, noisy, but thankfully air conditioned restaurants. Different people...
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    Connect remote BlueIris server to local BlueIris server

    Thanks for the reply. I went back on your suggestion and made a more thorough effort to look through the help file, and now have h264 streaming and PTZ going. No audio as of yet. I don't suppose you could refer me to one of the other threads? I've tried googling and searching on the forum, but...
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    Software decoding w/ power video card?

    Well, I guess you are telling me other people have in fact tried good video cards and gotten no significant results. That's disappointing. I can see why he'd go with the "more support" option. But the problem is that it's not able to scale to more powerful systems without "optimizing", which...
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    Software decoding w/ power video card?

    I understand that BlueIris doesn't directly support anything but integrated Intel graphics. Boggles my mind that such a decision was made, but I'm sure the developer had their reasons. Likely something was just easier/cheaper than going with NVidia or AMD support. Whatever the reason, when the...
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    Software decoding w/ power video card?

    I'm bumping against the limits of what a 6th gen Core i5 system can manage with "hardware decoding". I've had to reduce framerates and disable BI features to keep CPU utilization reasonable. Heat and the cost of electricity are non-issues for me. (I get that they are big issues for other...
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    Connect remote BlueIris server to local BlueIris server

    One owner, 5 restaurants. We have a central BI server that connects to all the restaurant cameras. One location has been upgraded from 6 720p to 16 cameras ranging from 720p to 2K, and the Comcast connection just isn't fast enough for that load at decent quality. So we installed a local BI...
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    Any experience with scheduling a system image backup in Windows 10?

    Spend some money, get a much bigger drive. Don't use it at more than 50% capacity. Doing so decreases life and slows it down because it forces a lot more wear leveling. A 512MB maybe. Those are what, $100-150? Put the stuff with a lot of small files (OS, programs, database, alert snapshots...
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    Using BI for remote viewing at multiple locations

    I've done this. It's as stable and reliable as your internet service (For us, Comcast) is. Keeping in mind that you're looking at combined stability of the remote internet service and the local. There are additional security concerns because your exposing all the remote cameras to the...
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