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  1. Tuckerdude

    PTZ Cameras lagging behind Drone-Tech (A General Question)

    Hey folks...this seemed like the best place to ask this question. I am an avid Blue Iris User and have purchased dozens of cameras from lots of manufacturers. I currently have 26 cameras running with varying sizes and capabilities. My one big beef is with how big and bulky the "Quality" PTZ...
  2. Tuckerdude

    Support For Wipers On PTZ cameras

    Ha ha...yeah, that's certainly going to be a factor. I've decided to pass on the model with the wiper. I bite the bullet and purchased this new model from Hikvision: DS-2DF8836IV-AELW-Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Ltd. There is a model without the wiper and that's what I have on...
  3. Tuckerdude

    Support For Wipers On PTZ cameras

    Hello again folks... Has anyone got experience with PTZ cameras that have the little lens-wipers running on Blue Iris? My guess is that there is no support as I can't remember seeing anything even close. But this is the place to ask these questions, so I'd love to hear from anyone on the...
  4. Tuckerdude

    33 camera recommendation

    Yes of course....been one of the faithful for several years! :) Actually, I need to correct above statement as I looked at the "Status Window" inside of Blue Iris and got the exact numbers: I have 13 at 2MP 10 at 3MP and 3 at 4MP. Most cameras are at 20 FPS (12 of them are at 30)...
  5. Tuckerdude

    33 camera recommendation

    This seemed like as good a thread as any to compare setups and ask a question at the same time. I am currently running an Intel i7-6950x with 128GB of Ram and 26 cameras (15 running at 2MP 20FPs and the other 11 running at 4MP 20 FPS) all set to direct to disc. On average my CPU usage runs at...
  6. Tuckerdude

    4.5.4 - May 4, 2017 360 Dewarping

    Hey Folks... As someone who originally requested this feature back in April of 2015, I was excited to see this get implemented. So after finally getting some time to try it out, I can verify that it does indeed work to some extent, although as mentioned above it would be nice if this could work...
  7. Tuckerdude

    Blue Iris is awesome!

    Hey Wayner... Welcome to the Blue Iris family! Yeah...it's a great piece of software with a ton of functionality, combined with high reliability, frequent updates, and amazing support for hardware of all kinds. The more time you spend with it, the more you will like it! Trust me!
  8. Tuckerdude

    Disadvantages to running as a service?

    Hey there.... So I can't speak for everyone, but I currently run BI at two locations (Seattle and Arizona houses) and run both of them as a service. I have not had a single problem with BI running as a service and can vouch for it's robustness over long periods of time. Since I'm not in AZ that...
  9. Tuckerdude

    Text alerts for guest logins...

    Bump.....anyone have any ideas?
  10. Tuckerdude

    Text alerts for guest logins...

    Hi folks, I did a cursory search on this, so apologies if it's already been asked. What I want to know is can I receive text message alerts on my phone for when a guest user log's in to my system? There are times when I want to grant access to others, but would like to be notified on my phone...
  11. Tuckerdude

    4.4.7.2 BREAKS Speco SIP cameras

    Hey Folks...for what it's worth, the latest update (version 4.4.8.0) broke my install and would not run at all. When launching Blue Iris, I would receive an error as soon as the UI came up. And looking at the error message it was reporting a Win32 exception error. I had to roll back to version...
  12. Tuckerdude

    Viewing BI on my TV?

    So, have you not tried it on a non-dedicated switch? Just wondering if it can work or not. I don't have a way to easily snake cables from a dedicated switch to all the TV's that I want to use this with.
  13. Tuckerdude

    Viewing BI on my TV?

    Hi Chaycock.... I just tried buying a similar product from Amazon and had some pretty bad picture quality: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OZV04BK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The other thing was, that it requires a dedicated ethernet switch to bridge more than one...
  14. Tuckerdude

    Free software to automate Blue Iris with Amazon Dash buttons.

    Hey Kent... You got some ideas cooking for me as well! Now that I know you can do this, I'm thinking about a particular function that I think would be great. It's a bit "off topic" for the blue Iris forum, but I will try to use your system to program a button to perform a series of commands...
  15. Tuckerdude

    Free software to automate Blue Iris with Amazon Dash buttons.

    Hi Kent... Thanks for making this! looks super cool, I've been debating the usefulness of these little buttons and felt like yet another way for Amazon to stick it's claws into me. But...this application looks like something I can make good use of. Very clever and opens up some interesting...
  16. Tuckerdude

    Selecting "Audio" Tab In Blue Iris Options windows causes BI to crash

    Hey Beepsilver.... I tried your work-around, but it's still crashing for me. I tried it a few times just to be sure. Thanks for trying...and much appreciated your confirming the error and submitting the bug. Will hopefully have a fix soon.
  17. Tuckerdude

    Selecting "Audio" Tab In Blue Iris Options windows causes BI to crash

    Hi Beepsilver and thanks for replying to my post. Never even looked to see what that did! I enabled the Log file and then proceeded to duplicate my crashing issue (selecting Audio tab from settings window). After BI crashed, I restarted and viewed the log. It's not much help as all is says is...
  18. Tuckerdude

    Selecting "Audio" Tab In Blue Iris Options windows causes BI to crash

    Hey folks.... I've been meaning to get some audio going on my BI setup, so finally started the project this weekend. But when I was ready to test it, I was asked to setup my microphone in the Settings window. But when I clicked on the "Audio" tab, BI instantly hangs and eventually crashes and...
  19. Tuckerdude

    Fish-EYE Camera support (Please...Pretty Please....Cherry On Top!

    Hey bp2008, I think you are probably right! And yeah, the whole point is to the Fisheye camera on the ceiling and use it as it was intended. Thanks for chiming in, I'm definitely going to wait until I hear that BI has officially added support.
  20. Tuckerdude

    Fish-EYE Camera support (Please...Pretty Please....Cherry On Top!

    Hi Janimator....thanks for giving me the heads up on this! Yeah, I would still love to find a way to incorporate Fish Eye cameras into my setup. Since the last time I looked, there still seems to be no cameras out there which pass along "de-warped" streams, only the raw video which still is not...
  21. Tuckerdude

    Windows 10 - Auto Startup Problem w/ Blue Iris

    Ahh...Fenderman! Somehow you always seem to know! Wow man...that was it!!!! Here's what happened......This PC that I bought came with a bunch of bloatware, which I promptly un-installed. But the McAfee firewall was waiting in the wings, and I think when Windows 8.1 did a big update, it must have...
  22. Tuckerdude

    Windows 10 - Auto Startup Problem w/ Blue Iris

    Hey guys...as always, thanks for maintaining such a great forum. I have a big head-scratcher for you guys and having wrestled with the problem for 2 days, I think I need some help. I basically went through the steps above for setting up as a service, and on my home machine, it worked just...
  23. Tuckerdude

    360 degree dome cameras...

    Hey Guys...I too would be interested to know if this works, as I have been trying to find a solution/option for this! If you get a sample unit and/or demo of something that actually works in BI, please let us know!
  24. Tuckerdude

    Webserver Bandwidth Question....

    Fenderman...you are awesome! Thanks for the quick reply and confirmation...I'm going to stick with 2048 on all my installs. I now have 3 :) 1. House in Seattle 2. House in Arizona 3. Makeshift install at a friends house who just had a litter of puppies from one of my dogs! Cheers!
  25. Tuckerdude

    Webserver Bandwidth Question....

    Hello again everyone, I have been experimenting with the "Rate Control" on the Blue Iris Webserver to try and find the optimal settings for bandwidth and resulting picture quality. By default, Blue Iris has "Limit bitrate" selected with a 512kbps max bitrate setup. The issue that I have, is that...
  26. Tuckerdude

    Fish-EYE Camera support (Please...Pretty Please....Cherry On Top!

    Hey Rhinomods... Well, it simply did not work! The camera is quite nice....and has a bunch of great viewing options, but there's no way to get access to the de-warped stream. So no matter what you do, you will always get the fish-eye looking view inside of Blue Iris. I was pretty disappointed...
  27. Tuckerdude

    Blue Iris and HikVision NVR Box - Can Blue Iris display video feed?

    Hey Guys... I thought I would chime in since I started this thread in the first place. I will say, that I eventually (sort of) got the thing working. But it felt too "Hacky" for my liking. That plus I found that the web interface on the Hikvision DVR box was lacking in alot of very key areas...
  28. Tuckerdude

    Fish-EYE Camera support (Please...Pretty Please....Cherry On Top!

    You may be right, but I'm less interested in Detail as I am just knowing how far it's gotten and whether it's finished or not! These prints can take HOURS AND HOURS!
  29. Tuckerdude

    Fish-EYE Camera support (Please...Pretty Please....Cherry On Top!

    Hi Guys...thanks for the follow up! I have ordered the Hikvision DS-2CD6362F-I and will try it out on Blue Iris. Will post my findings here after I've had a chance to install and configure. This has now gone from a "nice to have" to a "Gotta see if I can make it work" project. If I'm...
  30. Tuckerdude

    Fish-EYE Camera support (Please...Pretty Please....Cherry On Top!

    Many thanks everyone! I will check out the Hikvision option. If the functionality is there, then I don't mind paying a premium for it. Just really would like to have the flexibility.
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