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Like so many others here, I have been struggling to hook up a Reolink camera to Blue Iris. I just bought a Reolink RLC-810A, which has a specified resolution of up to 3840x2160. After having spent many hours trying to get it to work, I give my findings here, hoping that it may save someone else...

Use Blue Iris to handle the camera streams, you will never regret it Regards from another Dane

Sorry for my mistake about the BI version. I use ver 5.3.2.2, which then does not have the Deepstack interface. So is it true that with BI 5.4.5.x and Deepstack, I am forced to record the substream 24/7? I dislike that because I know that I will never look into it and it will just fill the...

I recently bought a Jetson Nano and installed it to work in parallel with the Win10 computer running BI5. I have not upgraded to BI6 because I read somewhere, that I would then need to make 24/7 recording at low resolution, and I am not happy about doing so. Maybe I misunderstood something. The...

Deepstack is much faster with a GPU than a CPU alone because it can parallelize its task with a GPU. However, you need a really hefty gaming GPU from NVidia for Deepstack, so unless you have that, then stay with the CPU version. I have used Deepstack for almost a year with one of the...

Found the solution. You need to enable annotations in both the trigger and the settings files....

Clever, looks interesting!

I have previously used the BI Android app, but really didn't like it much (can't even remember why anymore). So I have instead set up a message system using "pushover" as described in neile's AI thread. It works well. However, when I am home and moving around right outside the house, I get a lot...

It's pretrained. Do not count on training it yourself, it's a major undertaking.

Mine works well with black and white infrared images. Anything that you can reasonably see with the naked eye on a 640x480 image will be detected by the AI software

I know that neile has left us but I have a problem that maybe some of you can tackle. When the system triggers, it sends messages to my android phone via pushover and that works well. However, I do not get annotations, which would be very useful when selecting the threshold levels. My...

Thanks, seems attractive. (I just installed neile's docker version which is really good but of course doesn't have the many area facilities of your version). Maybe slightly off topic, but are you folks not worried about integrity when using Telegram? Isn't it Russian?

I have looked closer at your instruction file. It looks impressive and like a lot of good work! But if you can find the time, it would really be useful if you could compare the three deepstack approaches. For instance, if someone has already implemented one of the other two setups, would it then...

Sounds interesting. Could you maybe briefly tell us the difference between your approach and those of gentlepumpkin and neile (a docker version)?

I have looked a bit more into this and think I understand what was happening. In the newest BI manual it says: "5.2.8 - May 20, 2020 Direct-to-disc BVR recording will now include metadata for video overlays (bitmaps and text), motion detection rectangles, as well as camera state flags (such as...

I have done some more tests. When I use UI3, I get the wrong overlays, when looking at alert clips. However, when I look at the output directly from BI (via Remote Desktop), I get the overlay OK for live viewing but no overlays at all when looking at clips? Quite strange. I am running the...

I have checked them and they seem fine

Yes, I record direct to disk. So in fact, what I see is then a normal behavior because BI has no way of knowing what the overlay was at the time of recording? Strange thing is then that the time and date set by BI are shown OK? I rarely watch in BI but use UI3 all of the time because I access...

I have been using BIT for a while and I am really pleased with it. Lately I have made some changes to other software on the PC and I have noted that the weather overlays do not get saved together with the clips. Maybe they never were. The date and time are saved OK. It means that when I watch an...

Neile is moving on from this thread, so this is a good occasion to thank him for all the wonderful work he has done. Yesterday and today I installed his docker container and it works really well. I still need to fiddle a little with a few parameter values but I can already now tell, that Neile's...

As many others here I am tired of getting hundreds of false alarms from trees moving in the wind and insects. I am about to try this solution that seems to do exactly what everybody wants. As a start, I have upgraded Win7 to Win10 and BI4 to BI5. Before I go ahead, I have a question: If I log...

Thanks Fenderman. I have tried to read up on this. If I understand it correctly, then when I start Teamviewer on the BI computer, it hooks up to a cloud service and keeps the connection alive forever? Then, when I connect to the cloud service with Teamviewer from another computer somewhere else...

Thanks, guys fenderman, will that solve the problem that I do not know the IP address of the cell service of my second home? bp2008: If I get you right, you think that one could open a VPN connection via cell service from the second home router to my permanent home router "once and for all"...

It looks interesting but it seems that ngrok and hamachi in some way set up a tunnel to a proxy somewhere, that users can log into. Constantly keeping such a tunnel alive could maybe incur large costs for the cell service? And then of course to the proxy company. It would be nice to avoid the...

I have a second home with a home automation system based upon a fast PC. For surveillance I use BI and I connect from outside using VPN and UI3, which is working very well. Although the house sits far out in the woods, it has the luxury of a fast fiber connection to the internet provider. The...

pov2: You are right. If you need power on both sides, there is a bridge for the lightning. I guess the best solution for a camera at an outbuilding then is a pure fiber connection and a local power supply in the outbuilding. It would then not have UPS backup but that might be acceptable for a...

what we really need is an inexpensive ethernet optocoupler with a physical dimension of a few inches to prevent the lightning to go through. Maybe it can be bought somewhere :)

Wow, that's interesting, have you guys used it for lightning protection? It would be necessary set up an external power supply though.

crw030, if you place a computer at the remote location, your biggest problem might well be lightning strikes. Make sure to plan for a good lightning protection of cams that have long cables. I have a camera in another building some 60 ft away from the main building and it repeatably gives me...

Here's a report on how it went. Macrium couldn't clone the HDD, it threw an error. I then tried with AOMEI (another free backup program) and the cloning went well. After having swapped the old and the new HDDs, the computer started right away with no license issues. Very easy, and it feels good...