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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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi Folks, I have a Windows 7 computer with Blue Iris and some home automation software. The system has run perfectly for five years. Considering that the 2.5" harddisk has been spinning non-stop for five years (and was used when I installed it), I suspect that it could fail any day. I have...

Hi guys, this has been touched upon in another thread but I start a new thread because I think that this issue has a future for BI. The BI motion sensor is as good as it gets with conventional methods but many of us get false alarms from tree shadows moving in the wind etc, etc. Google has...

I have a Chinese no-name 1080p cam with a CS pinhole lens looking at my house from a distance. To keep it discrete, I have hidden it in a birds nest box. The problem is that when the Sun is low by the end of the day, it enters into the field and it is difficult for me to change that. I have now...

This may be a stupid question and then easy to answer for some of you smart guys. I run a surveillance and home automation system in a vacation home but the internet is not always reliable, so I now and then lose connection to the vacation house LAN from outside. I usually connect via remote...

I have a conventional system with 4 cheap Chinese IP cams and a Windows PC running BI. After the major virus attack all over the world a few months ago, I became aware of the risk that the cheap Chinese cams may function as sleeping soldiers for virus attacks, so I blocked the IP cams for...

I use BI for remote surveillance of a vacation house. There is not a guaranteed fixed IP address at the vacation house but the IP number changes very rarely (less than once per year), so I do not use a dynamic dns service. However, since the external IP number potentially can change, it would be...

Hi, I continuously get this error in the daily log: "09-10-2016 02:00:23 Database Corrupt or disc error: 00000020" Everything seems to work ok. Any clues? Thanks

I am working on a system that will be installed right at the ocean shore at a fairly rough place, so I figure that the camera windows will be covered by salt after some time. My colleagues have mentioned the possibility of using "self-cleaning" window glass, which is manufactured by Pilkington...

Hi All, I have been asked to come up with a proposal for a system of ip-cameras to be placed at an arctic location well above the polar circle. The purpose is to study wild life, and we expect to install 5-6 iP-cams. At least for now, I have in mind to establish a solar power system combined...

Hi All, I have a problem with choppy video and hope for some advice. I am running BI ver 4.2.7.1 on a dedicated Windows 7 computer with an i7-4790S processor at 3.2 GHz. I have four IP cams and I record clips on motion only. I monitor BI from a remote site using the Active X plugin for Internet...

I am running BI on Win7 on an i7 computer. It's super stable, it hasn't hung at all during the first months that it has been up and running. Anyway, I think that it would be prudent to reboot, say, every week. I have looked in the BI manual and in the forum, but haven't found a clever way to do...

I have a BI setup with three outdoor cameras that switch to IR in the evening and back to visible in the morning. Trouble is that the transition during switch-over between day and night triggers the alerts for two of the cameras (but strange enough not for the third camera), so I get false...

Hi, I am new here. I have installed BI on an i7 computer and so far have three IP cameras connected. BI is a wonderful piece of software but I had to do some fiddling to learn of all the details and get it up and running. No problems with CPU load. I still have an issue though. The clips are...