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    Looking to upgrade our system

    Post what system specs you have and what system you are looking at Best Buy. I wouldn't personally buy a computer from Best Buy for Blue Iris as it's probably overkill and overpriced for what you need.
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    Shipment Delay Notification

    Thanks for letting us know about how your normal fast shipping is being impacted by this pandemic @EMPIRETECANDY !
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    Shipment Delay Notification

    :puke: Will I ever get my: IPC-PFW8802-A180 ;)
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    16 port unmanaged PoE Switch - $70

    My order switched from "Pending Review" to "All Backordered", supposedly will ship when back in stock per the msg. Nice.
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    Hospital Uses Nest Cameras

    That's somewhat terrifying, unless through some magic they are not recording anything to the cloud????
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    16 port unmanaged PoE Switch - $70

    Can't disagree with enterprise switch, but not looking for old power hog with no firmware updates and loud fans cranking out a ton of heat in the mechanical closet. I have an old HP managed POE, it works fine, and I have Ubiquity for most the regular network. But if I manage to receive these...
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    16 port unmanaged PoE Switch - $70

    I feel like that might have been a pricing error, first it went "out of stock" then "no longer available" and was replaced by the exact same thing but at 3x the price. But not before I ordered TWO. Now just wait to find out if they refund or honor the price on the order, since it was probably...
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    Netgear unmanaged POE+ switch, 115w budget, $59

    Oops, I actually meant to post in THAT thread. Anyhow it's out of stock now.
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    Netgear unmanaged POE+ switch, 115w budget, $59

    I feel like that might have been a pricing error, first it went "out of stock" then "no longer available" and was replaced by the exact same thing but at 3x the price. But not before I ordered TWO. Now just wait to find out if they refund or honor the price on the order, since it was probably...
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    Upgraded Computer, now with worse performance!

    If @jodyak would post in his own thread, I think we could explore that, I was trying to avoid commenting here so as not to give new life to this thread but on an unrelated topic. Short answer, would depend on the cameras (ultimately MP/s) and display (they running 4k output for example?)...
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    New to forum, looking for a little advice!

    Budget & number of cameras you will need to cover the target areas?
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    SSD's? Safe and reliable for video server???

    Yeah, same boat. I'd just put those images on a different drive with a smaller cluster size. 10GB isn't that much to reserve somewhere else, but in my case of 22k alerts, it would make the difference between 6GB used or 22GB used, but now reading that 22GB isn't really a big deal, just a lot...
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    SSD's? Safe and reliable for video server???

    Thanks to your frequent guidance on this I recently remembered to do this for my video storage drives. Hoping it helps, with video files being so big I'm banking on the performance of less fragmented files will be a big performance boost while watching clips etc. One definite impact is more...
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    SSD's? Safe and reliable for video server???

    I personally think NVME is probably overkill for Blue Iris machine. If you think about one key benefit (boot time), on a machine that's already running 24x7 boot time isn't a major factor of the performance. I'd still consider a small SATA SSD because when you do need to patch/restart it's...
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    Camera hidden in spike light

    That's pretty clever, but balsy to be cutting up a camera! The finished product looks sweet, but did you find it messes with your IR or caused focus issues having a lens on the front that probably wasn't high quality/intended for optical clarity or IR?
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    Physical switches and VLANs

    Even though I am trying to learn my way around VLANs, I continue to recommend the simpler approach (dual nic) for most general users (even though I hope to be confident in the VLAN approach someday). Some people just won't have the time to spend trying to get it right, and doing things wrong...
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    Is there a way to add more storage folders in BI?

    Slight disclaimer but I haven’t had a drive fail yet. But according to their materials if a drive starts indicating it is failing (SMART) then all files get evacuated from the drive and the pool stops using the drive. If the drive fails abruptly, without warning just the data on that drive is...
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    Where to hide LPR cameras on my property?

    Ok, I wasn't sure if he was going to be able to thread the needle between all those bushes (effectively shooting his LPR down that gap provided by the brown pathway). @Boost20 definitely test some of these positions/recommendations with the camera mounted on a temporary test rig like...
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    Where to hide LPR cameras on my property?

    Is this the same direction as "porch west" side but higher? Porch West looks like the most challenging to me due to all the bushes. Do you have access to a higher point (like circled) on the property to snap a picture of that angle?
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    Where to hide LPR cameras on my property?

    Possibly check your understanding with that guy, maybe casually ask him if he said WIRELESS or WIRED POE, give him a chance to give the correct answer else go with the other contractor imho.
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    New BI build

    NIce, hopefully you will be getting some other useful uses out of that new PC. To be honest I would have expected the 3770k to handle 320MP/s without breaking a sweat, and certainly not at 60%+ cpu usage. I wonder if it was a different problem entirely with that old system, not because I...
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    Is there a way to add more storage folders in BI?

    Yeah makes sense, I have a couple 2GB drives from a NAS I had thought of using (because they are just idle atm), 3-4TB drives that I’ve been using past 2 years, and adding 3-12TB drives this year. But if I had kept adding 4TB along the way, just like you I would have faced problems (probably...
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    Is there a way to add more storage folders in BI?

    @ARAMP1 you are using the recommended approach of dividing your camera load onto your various drives. You are probably just at the extreme end of the scale (after all that’s quite a few smaller drives I presume). It’s not for everyone,but I’ve been using DrivePool for over a year without...
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    Physical switches and VLANs

    I have a limited understanding of VLANs, but based on the Ubiquity configs I've been messing around with it APPEARS to me that if something is connected to a switch port and the PORT is assigned a VLAN, that regardless of any trickery, anything attached to that port will get tagged to the...
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    Physical switches and VLANs

    If you cut the cable between the router and POE SWITCH-B you have the classic Dual-inc configuration. Your whole network can talk to the Blue iris machine and use UI3 to view the camera feeds, and all the cameras can talk to Blue Iris and all that video traffic is on the separate POE network...
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    Physical switches and VLANs

    Almost. Except NIC1 to Switch-A (or spare Router port in a pinch), and POE NIC3 to SWITCH-B (Poe), which is also where you want your cameras connected (after all they would benefit from POE).
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    Young punks in the community - IPC-T5442TM-AS

    Looks like a hot spot of IR might be the problem.
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    Blue Iris Support Response time?

    Probably got lost in the deluge of emails he received with a recent update that caused some issues. Just remember it’s a single person doing all this ( developer/support/sales person ). You could also try posting your problem here to see if the literally thousands of people with Blue iris...
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    Configuring a HDD

    Why don’t you trial Blue Iris on that PC, it is purpose built to pull the camera streams and store them to the local PC hard disk! It’s relatively cheap and not a hacked together approach. Blue Iris wouldn’t consume much for resources with a single camera, but you’d gain a bunch of other handy...
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    Physical switches and VLANs

    I would normally also recommend the dual-NIC setup @gfaulk09 mentions EXCEPT you said you plan to use all Unifi equipment, and I believe you might have to be extra careful because those devices often need to be able to reach your controller software, so you may face that challenge (unless you...
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