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    Dahua Cameras and BI.

    Trying to decide what new cameras to get. I use BI exclusively and do not want to over pay for features that are unusable. I have seen bits and pieces of this in other threads but nothing cohesive. What features of Dahua cameras are lost when using BI? And how to use the camera features in...
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    BI Update Manager not saving updates

    I have BIT set to <Enable Update Backups> but it is not currently saving anything. Both BIT and BI up to date as of today. In <Settings> the BI path is correct. It has saved updates in the past, spewing update.version.exe files into the following directories Folder...
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    Ubiquity EdgeRouter X - Configuring to Isolate Surveillance Networks

    My setup: I have the EdgeRouter X behind a Comcast modem/router. Only things connected to the ERX are my iMac, the BlueIris PC, the POE switches, and 15 cameras. My intent is to have the cameras unable to send/receive with the world. The computers can initiate conversations to the outside...
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    Shutter Speed vs Motion Blur

    i have some barely noticeable flickering on my front door camera (81230). None of the other cameras (4239s and 5231s) have any flickering. Latest firmware from Andy lets me set NTSC which fixed the severe beating that used to occur at night.
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    Shutter Speed vs Motion Blur

    Another thread in this forum has some talk about the effect of shutter speed on motion blur. I thought I would show my calculations and tests that helped me to determine what limits to place on my camera's shutter speed. First, I want the camera to be useful for ID of a person walking by. My...
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    Dahua day/night switch utility - DahuaSunriseSunset

    I would like <Simulate Sunrise> and <Simulate Sunset> buttons added to the window for configuring individual cameras. This would allow testing of a single camera without affecting the other cameras. Is this easy to do? Anyone else want this?
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    How long to rebuild database.

    I had the same problem. I had turned off auto rebuilding every day and forgot about it. Started having problems writing to the disk. Most common problem was disk not ready. Did a manual rebuild and it stalled. Progress indicator stopped around 37% - not sure what stage. Finally killed BI...
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    New Firmware for IPC-HX5X3X-Rhea_Eng_NP_Stream3_V2.800.20190807

    One minor problem I found when I updated to <Genral_IPC-HX5X3X-Rhea_Eng_NP_Stream3_V2.800.0000010.0.R.190807.bin>. When I turn off/on IR for a profile it turns off/on IR for the other profile. First found this out when I noticed that one of my LPR cameras ( a HFW5231E-Z12E ) and another...
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    Determine Focal Length

    Use some simple geometry - similar triangles and ratios. Look at the specs for one of the cameras you are looking at. The ratio of the sensor width to the camera focal length will be the same as the ratio of the FOV to the distance to the object. Thus FOV = (distance) * (sensor size) /...
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    202107 Latest New Version DH_IPC-HX8XXX-Nova_Eng_P/N_Stream3--IPC-HFW8232E-Z/ZE

    Thanks for checking.
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    202107 Latest New Version DH_IPC-HX8XXX-Nova_Eng_P/N_Stream3--IPC-HFW8232E-Z/ZE

    Trying to get a version that works with out a plug-in or Adobe Flash. The version posted at the beginning of this thread was newer than the version 1.622.0000001.16.R Build Date 2017-12-15 that was on my IPC-HDBW81230E camera but still requires Adobe Flash. My other IPC-HX5X3X cameras have...
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    No response.
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    After a couple of days of automatic database compaction at 9:19 while new clips start on the hour, I no longer see any breaks in the recordings. BUT I still get full size images that have not been processed by Sentry in the alert emails and no alerts in the clip list. —— Dean
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    I did some more digging and it you are right, the reduced size has nothing to do with Sentry and instead is caused by my switching to BI5. I installed BI5 on Sept 2. Looking at my old email alerts I see that mid day the alert images changed from full size to 480 pixels. It wasn't until Sept 3...
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    I don't. When I mentioned cars it was because sometimes Sentry mistakes a car for a person. Mainly this happens when a light colored car passes behind a branching tree trunk in our front yard. ---- Dean
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    It's amazing what's in the manual - once you know where to look. After realizing the gap was caused by compacting the database, letting things gel for a day, and your mention of manually compacting, I searched for database in the manual (I don't remember BI4 having a searchable manual) and...
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    I found the cause of the recording gap a 9 AM - I had set the database to be compacted/repaired each day at 9. Never realized that the xompacting would take 3 minutes or that it would result in no recording during this time. It took me some time to figure this out. First I looked at the...
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    I decided to look more closely at the false positive alerts where no Sentry box was drawn and a full size image appears in the email alert. I had a string of 14 such alerts this morning between 9:00 and 9:03 AM. Again, nothing appears in BI's clip list during this time. But when I happened to...
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    How well has Sentry worked for me?

    My system has 10 cameras connected to Sentry and set to send email alerts. For each of these cameras I have BI set up to detect any motion (no Zones) above 100 pixels and 5 of these cameras also have audio triggers turned on. During the last 10 days I have received 30,000 motion triggers...
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    Blue Iris version 5

    Windows 10. To late to try rebooting - BI already says good for the new major upgrade. I expect that closing and reopening the setting window or even changing tabs would have updated the displayed status.
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    Blue Iris version 5

    After I entered the new extended support license number it did not refresh the text to indicate that I had a free update to version 5 until after I checked for a newer version. Not a big deal, but it made did make me pause for a second.
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    Actual lighting requirements for Dahua Starlight 2MP cams

    Instead of a meter I would take a picture using a SLR camera of the scene and report the ASA, shutter, and F/no. Unfortunately my SLR seems to have died. I ended up using Dahua IPC-HFW4239T-ASE 2MP cameras out front where the neighborhood lights provide enough light. In the back and side...
  23. quest100

    Can I truly achieve 30fps record

    Ignore my previous message - I restarted (again) and it seems to be working correctly. Now I want to see how many cameras I can put back onto the Intel graphics before it chokes.
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    Can I truly achieve 30fps record

    How do I use the Nvidia 1030 card for display and the Intel graphics for hardware acceleration? I installed the 1030 card and am using it for driving the display but can not get the Intel graphics to be used. I go into BI --> Camera Properties --> Video, tell it to use the intel, click OK...
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    Can I truly achieve 30fps record

    I had not realized a graphic card would help. I am going to look into this. Thanks.
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    Can I truly achieve 30fps record

    I have 16 Gig and use about half of that. I would go for 16 again.
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    Can I truly achieve 30fps record

    A lot will probably depend on how you view the video. My system has an Intel Core i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz with 1x12MP and 14x2MP cameras, all running at 20 fps and continuous recording plus motion detection. This results in around 840 MP/s through put. All interaction/viewing is done through...
  28. quest100

    SMS Alerts - sender?

    I have set up BI to send a SMS text message alert. The text is sent and received correctly, but the texts end up in different threads. I want all the texts to end up in the same thread. How do I do this? Each thread is labeled "SMS with 141...01", "SMS with 141...02" etc. In BI I am using...
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    My test rig: rev.2

    My version of the test rig uses two two-by-fours cut to a length of 5-6 feet and joined by a C clamp. That way I can position the camera at any height I want. Or angle it as needed.
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    Safari plugin for Dahua IPCs.

    I forgot to reply yesterday to this thread with the solution provided to me by tangent. See Dahua versus an Apple eco system for more details on my path. I now have a web browser working using FireFox ESR 52. This is after I updated my Mac to macOS Mojave, 10.14.Biggest problems were finding...
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