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I have an old 3mp poe dome cam mounted on a 4 foot tall block wall to monitor the alley behind my house due to some dumping issues. The dome is old and weather faded due to the sun pointing at it half the day. I had been thinking of getting a bullet cam with the theory that the bit extending...

I have multiple BI installs at different sites, all running 4.8.2.3. Site A has 3 Hikvision DS-2CD2342WD-I cameras recorded locally but also cloned as view only cameras at site B over a VPN. This was done by exporting the cameras at site A and importing them at site B and works fine on 2 of 3...

I am building a second Blue Iris server for a vacation home. The house has a low bandwidth WISP connection so I am looking for tips to optimize a sub stream from the cameras as a backup recording to my primary BI server in case the local BI server is compromised. Basic setup is a mini PC at...

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...

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...