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    I'm wondering what the biggest advantage is of Blue Iris 5 over Blue Iris 4?

    I have installed and I monitor 2 camera systems that use Blue Iris 4 and they don't have many problems that can't be fixed. My own system has 12 cameras and my church's system has 11 cameras and between me and ipcamtalk I've kept them running. If I were to go to Blue Iris 5 would there be an...
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    Setup Instructions for new IPC-HDBW5442R-ASE-NI 4MP?

    I just bought a 3rd camera from Andy based on the excellent suggestions and help from wittaj , sebastioncombs and too many others to count. But now, a new camera. I used the same shutter and gain suggestions for a starting point when I set up my last camera, a 3241 which worked out great. Now...
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    Compare IPC-T2231T-ZS to IPC-T3241T-ZAS ?

    I've printed out the specs and I'm trying to see the difference between these two cameras besides one is $10 more and one has Micro SD Card?
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    2.8 mm vs 3.6 mm IPC-T5442TM-AS

    Due to the excellent advice at ipcamtalk.com in my search for the right camera to cover our playground, I picked the IPC B5442E ZE bullet and purchased from Andy (Amazon) and just finished the install yesterday. Great detail with it's 4MP which is twice the MP of the previous camera and because...
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    Replacement for a camera dropping frames

    I have a SVC IP POE 1080P 2.8 - 12 MM that covers a playground but is missing recordings I think, because BI Status shows iframes as .20 so I'm looking for a replacement camera. BI is 4 and we are replacing it's current i5 2500 computer server with a Dell XPS 8940. The playground camera needs...
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    Blue Iris won't recognize Logitech Alert cams

    After setting up BI on a separate system my 2 Logitech Alert cameras no longer display. I can ping the IPs and I see the 2 cameras in Logitech's Commander on the same system. I input the exact settings and on one camera I reset (that is I unplugged for 10 sec) and no go. Both cameras are...
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    Lost all 7 cameras overnight

    Last night at 8:30 pm all networked 7 cameras on Blue Iris were online and displaying fine. This morning at 6am when I looked all cameras had black displays giving errors saying check ip/password etc. 1st I rebooted the Motorola Surfboard 6580 Router ... no help. Rebooted BI no help...
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    Lost IP addresses after power failure

    I have a mixture of 10 cameras on a Blue Iris system, a i5-2500K - 8 GB mem and we had a city-wide power outage for 5 minutes. When the system came back up 4 of the cameras had lost their IP addresses and a couple of others came up but had the wrong cam ID .... they had switched. For instance...
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    Mix wifi and hard wired cameras on same monitor?

    I have a 6 camera hard-wired system and need to add another but it's almost impossible to thread a Cat5 to the mounting location. Can I add a wifi camera to the current system?
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    2nd Blue Iris display in different part of building?

    I have Blue Iris running nicely with 9 security cameras. The web interface works nicely off site and I thought I could use the same web interface on a different pc to bring up the same display in a different part of the building. It times out and never connects. It works great on my Android...
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    Second monitor remote from server on same network?

    I have Blue Iris running 9 cameras visible from the church office. I would like to have a second monitor on a second system in the Sound System Sanctuary loft that would project the same 9 cameras on it's own screen. So now I have 2 locations to monitor traffic and outside activity...
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