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    Opening Ports vs VPN

    I prefer a VPN myself but for simplicity, port forwarding just the necessary ports to the DVR with a good password. There is another concern that you should think about before using the customers connection especially with Comcast. Comcast caps home connections. You may not hit their cap with...
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    IP Camera Network Options (risk to home network security?)

    Yes, you can have isolation between the cameras and the wireless network if you set it up that way. The NVR with two network interfaces would be your only link to the cameras. So to view video you are only talking to the NVR from your phone.
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    IP Camera Network Options (risk to home network security?)

    I hate to brake it to you but the wireless is probably a bigger security threat than anything else. Someone sitting in their car a few houses down with a good antenna and the right utilities will break in in no time. That being said, just making the cables hard to get to is your best line of...
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    Any reason not to upgrade to Windows 10?

    Only reason I can think of is enterprise is a business version and not included in the free upgrade unless you have SA with Microsoft.
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    Zyxel ZyWall firewall router worth the $

    I have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a Zywall router, IIRC it was a USG100. The VPN speeds were horrible and the connection unreliable at least with IPSEC. PFsense with open VPN is the way to go if you don't mind a little DIY.
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    DS-2CD3132F + 12mm lens + dome = no focus

    Is there a trick to focusing dome cameras? I had a 12mm lens in a DS-2CD2032F but decided to put that camera elsewhere due to spider issues and transferred the 12mm lens to a DS-2CD3132F. The issue I am having is every time I install the dome the image is completely out of focus. Cleaning the...
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    bvr file converter or player?

    Media Player Classic Home Cenema (MPCHC) 1.7.10 has limited support for playback. Basically the BVR file will play but seek doesn't work and fast forward locks it up.
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    Xeon vs i7 Haswell

    5600 Xeon's are old. I am still tweaking everything but when I stared testing BI it was on my oldest server, a dual X5687 Xeon. Granted that was a windows 7 VM on top of 2012r2 but even with the server barely doing anything else and BI getting 8 threads, when I tested that system with 3x 3MP...
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    Researching system for home use

    I have the first cam up and I can definitely say I am impressed with BI. CPU usage on the other hand is a bit extreme to the point where I don't think virtualizing BI will workout once I get more cams, ordered 8 more for 9 total. So here's my tentative plan. E3-1275 v3 Xeon (basically an...
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    Researching system for home use

    I think I get where your going with robocopy. Are the video streams saved in blocks? Ie. a new file written every 10 minutes or something with Blue Iris stringing them together on playback. I could see that working with something like robocopy where files older than x minutes in a specified...
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    Researching system for home use

    I am just starting to seriously research setting up a surveillance system for my house after having some stuff go missing recently. Anyways, I have ordered a Hikvision DS-2CD2032 to cut my teeth on and figure out camera angles and lenses but there are a bunch of unknowns I have with using Blue...
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