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    Need help getting two-way audio working on my Hik 2CD-XXXX cube cameras

    Over the years, I've had intermittent success getting the two-way audio to work. Sometimes it would go through reasonably clearly, other times so distorted and chunky it was useless. Other times, the microphone button would turn green only while held, others it would stay on until clicked a...
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    Thanks for the link. Looks like you guys were on top of this 6 months before I caught wind. I thought I'd read the thread before making dinner... 11 pages, not gonna happen right now. Gonna save that for some "me time" later.
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    What is causing the green on my cam?

    Is there a way to do this on chrome/brave mobile browser? Nm... Found it... NM2 that didn't work
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    Looks like I"m screwed with the new TN license plates: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/new-tennessee-license-plates-undergo-testing-from-various-reader-technology-no-changes-planned Summary: Plates suck for most IR-based LPRs. Only a few of the LEO ALPRs can play with them. We're not...
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    What is causing the green on my cam?

    Have you noticed any consequence of doing so? My CPU fan started screaming while playing back on UI3 and it didn't seem to be quite as fluid. I might just be imagining things, so I'll stick with it through a few restarts.
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    Excellent suggestions. I am going to implement all of them tomorrow and report back...
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    No I like to learn the easy way, but only after I've tried every possible hard way. Would you care to share on what kind of user error could force sub-stream recording? Live view is showing main, but all playback (both on UI3 and on the console) is sub stream. I have "use sub-stream if...
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    Great minds think alike. I just did exactly that! Waiting for a car to go by... Like watching and waiting for water to boil.
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    Yes, but with only 8 cameras, set to record on motion, most (if not all) are typically not recording. You can see the receiving is around 40mbps on the NIC, but the drive wasn't actively recording when I took my screenshot. They are recording, as I can see the playback. However, the...
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    Here's another one the just popped up, and you can see where the tailgate shades the plate, it's readable, but the part of the tag that is in the full sun is washed out...
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    Yea, that's a pretty significant handicap. In fact, that Honda may well have had an inch of dust covering the plate, and no level of tweaking (short of a pressure washer) will reveal the tag. So brightness and contrast on the camera GUI directly, correct? I just don't want to cause issues...
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    Need help tweaking LPR camera exposure settings

    I have this camera - a Dahua IPC-HFW4431R-Z 2.7~12mm that works reasonably well on my street. However, I just installed the same camera on a neighbor's new installation, and I can't seem to get the exposure correct. I've duplicated my settings, but on her street, cars are moving much faster...
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    Yeah, I get that the USB drive is sub-par, but with the number of cameras she has, I'm going with it for now. I had my 60+ on a USB and didn't suffer any issues (until I did). Unless that is what is causing the slow painting of the BI console, I'll consider a separate issue. While I haven'...
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    Doing a factory reset and restore from the hidden partition doesn't count, I guess? I installed some of the dell software to get it to scan for outdated drivers. I'll look for defender hooks now.
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    Interesting. Neighbor had a few spare moments to let me in. First clip is showing how it opens. Rest are parm screenshots.
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    All good suggestions. I've got everything skinnied down to maximize performance (probably my 10th BI system build) - CPU is running around 40% with console open (with all all but a few percent due to BI), but higher bursts during the opening process. No firewall, no antivirus (other than...
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    [video] BI console loads in slow motion...

    Never seen anything like it. Running on an i7-6xxx with 16gb ram, win 10 w/latest updates. It's a new system I put together for neighbor. Latest intel drivers installed (from Dell for Optiplex 7050). Screen "paints" very slowly - with each button/icon coming up about .5 seconds after the...
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    Playback/Web/Mobile always stuttering, but export is fine

    Just another "me too" chime in. Though, FWIW, using the direct-to-wire option enabled (vs inherit) on one of the UI3 quality profiles causes it to stream live smooth as butter. Still trying to figure out if there is a way to do the same on playback, but I think that isn't possible...
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    Live is main stream, but playback is substream only?

    Sorry for late reply. I am using "when triggered" only, and BVR with direct-to-disc. Same settings on all cameras - identical to my own system.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Actually... So I went under global settings and unticked the "direct to wire" for both stream 0 and 1. I also went into the record setting of a given camera (w/o the overlay in live) and set the recording 0 and 1 to also avoid direct to wire. I'm still not getting the overlay. Is there...
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    Blue Iris UI3

    Genius. That's exactly what I did. TY.
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    Blue Iris UI3

    After all that technical discussion, I feel a bit out of place asking for help on a less technical issue. As of this morning, my live stream (individual cameras) do not show my video overlay (timestamp). They do in the group/index views, and also in the live stream of the BI console on the...
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    VIDEO: Off-duty Alabama officer hit by car in his front yard

    MMQB is easy at this point, but it sure seemed like he made himself a sitting duck by a) firing too late, b) not putting himself in a less open place, and c) not getting out of the path of the oncoming Jeep sooner. It was almost as though he expected the rounds to somehow stop the forward...
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    Ok, I haven't explored @TonyR's suggestion yet. FWIW, my URL/syntax is RTSP:/IP_address_of_remote_server:port/short_camera_name and that works great. The UN/PW were parsed out of the original URL containing UN:pW@IP. However, once I add any of the decoding/audio parms to the end, it fails...
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    Boy was I overthinking it. It absolutely works! Thanks!
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    Using the DDNS URL, port, and UN/PW for neighbor's BI stream on VLC, it works! So how do I implement that URL/syntax in BI?
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    Live is main stream, but playback is substream only?

    UI3 version 221, Blue Iris version: 5.6.0.5 Newly installed on a neighbors PC. Playback on all cameras is sub-stream resolution. Live shows sub momentarily then snaps to main as it should. This happens on UI3 (both local PC and remote PC) and on the console locally. I've verified that...
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    Nope, good suggestion, but all firewall options are disable. I've been using 8882 for several years both on the wan and lan side.
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    Thanks, that looks promising. I've tried using this in a circular setting (new camera aiming at my server, pointing to a h264 D2D camera). I'm sure I've got something misconfigured, but I get a no-signal, RTSP: error 503 service unavailable. Any other ideas?
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    Possible to pull camera stream from another BI server installation?

    Yeah, those workarounds may work, but are far from easily deployed across several installations. Although, both ends are running at 1GB ISP speeds.