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    Looking for feedback: Windows software that turns a PC screen into an ONVIF camera

    The POS use case is real, and you wouldn't want to be installing the Blue Iris thick client on every POS!
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    Looking for feedback: Windows software that turns a PC screen into an ONVIF camera

    Sounds like it could be useful. I don't run any POS systems so not sure I would have a use case, but I can see where it could be great. It also sounds smoother than a Hdmi encoder in many cases, that said many have surveillance cameras on a dedicated network (or should do!), but the network...
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    Video Surveillance: Multi-Location Live View (iOS/Android): How to Bypass the WireGuard Bottleneck Without Switching Profiles?

    What about hub-and-spoke topology from each of the UCGs to a central location, and then the users device establishes a tunnel to that one central location and can therefore route to all of your sites to via the one tunnel?
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    RF Detector?

    Exceedingly odd. Do you have any cameras covering near your NVR as mentioned? The reason I asked about PoE - if the cams were connected to a switch, you could get a cheap hub (or switch port mirror, even better), and mirror the port the NVR is on. Run a Wireshark trace on it, filter heavily (So...
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    RF Detector?

    I think the "cannot delete reserved group" with "admin" and "user" groups is quite normal. Just sloppy phrasing by Dahua. Have any actual users appeared, and if so, what are they called exactly? I have never heard of covert before. I wonder if it could be to do with the function where a live...
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    Is my Dahua DVR being hacked?

    Don't want to scare you any more than needed, but there is no way I would allow this on my network. Isolated VLAN segment with firewall rules, no P2P, yes, but not just connected haphazardly... Many seem to think Dahuas current P2P is fine. I am not saying they are wrong but I prefer to roll...
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    Is my Dahua DVR being hacked?

    Those user names certainly sound like something odd is going on. How it the DVR Internet connected? No port forwarding and UPnP is a good start, but P2P can have issues too...
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    RF Detector?

    Keep us updated with your findings. Would be intrigued to see some photos of the meter readings!
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    Dahua DHI-NVR5464-4KS2 load balance

    And yes, what's your bandwidth per camera? 46 * 10Mbps is only 460Mbps, which is well within the capability of a single 1Gbit port. What is the incoming capacity rating of your specific NVR?
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    Dahua DHI-NVR5464-4KS2 load balance

    What type of load balancing do the Dahua NVRs expect? It could be expecting something like LACP link aggregation which you may not have setup?
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    I am interested to hear if you do try this. I don't have experience comparing VM vs Physical BI, I personally think that with the right setup, virtualization in itself should not inherantly cause BI issues. But, I am open to being corrected! What issues are you having specifically? One thing I...
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    Certainly look at those substreams. This is interesting to me. I am very unfamiliar with clones, but it sounds like with the correct setup, the clones can share a decoder, preventing 2x'ing the workload just by cloning a camera? Or am I inferring wrong? I am not disagreeing at all, and you...
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    Fine, OK. My OS is Server 2022, and my hypervisor Qemu, but I shouldn't think it makes all that much difference. Apologies if any of this sounds daft, or if I am pointing out anything you already spent ages thinking about. These are just my very first observations. 1. I have never personally...
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    Is Blue Iris worth pursuing for my situation, or am I pushing it beyond its practical comfort zone?

    I run Blue Iris in a Windows VM and haven't had issues. I have a similar amount of cameras to you I think, but probably less resolution on average and a bit less AI. But then my server does not have a GPU. It would be interesting if you could share what your 'Total MP/s' value is from the...
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    Mail theft revisited 2020 long version ...for those who may not know

    Interesting. Currently I always record main + sub continuously. Storage requirements are heavy, but I always imagine how much I would kick myself if was recording sub + main on trigger, something happened, and the one shot I really needs somehow fell just outside the trigger range. No doubt...
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    Finding a used 4 or 8 channel NVR on the cheap

    Not really an answer to your exact question, but: wee bit of Cat6 or even fibre between the house and shed, and then connect the shed cameras into the house system (BI / NVR / whatever it is)?
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    Mail theft revisited 2020 long version ...for those who may not know

    To get this 100% clear - are you: A) Recording BOTH the substream AND the mainstream 24x7 Or B) 'running' both streams constantly, E.G pulling them into BI, but recording ONLY susbream 24x7, and the main on trigger? Yes, unless you are recording mainstream 24x7 anyway, in which case the...
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    Other people can stream your feed.

    Lookup local vs public IP addresses. 192.168.1.78 is not routable across the Internet, hence your challenge.
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    Network security questions

    To try and put your mind at rest regarding this statement: Firstly, I have NO IDEA how your LAN ended up on 192.169.0.0 IP range in the first place. Look up "Private IPs" as defined in RFC1918 - these are blocks of IP ranges dedicated for use on LANs, not the public internet, and note that...
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    PTZ 3D Positioning Support

    I have an older 2MP Dahua OEM PTZ connected to Blue Iris. When accessing the PTZ via SmartPSS Lite, the "3D positioning" function seems to work - that is, I can click and drag to draw a box in the video viewport, and them the PTZ will frame up to the box I drew. Very useful for quickly and...
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    Less than 12 hours with a PTZ leads to an arrest and jail

    Interesting, thank you. I don't have anything that is 4MP on a smaller sensor like that, but I am intrigued by how well (or not) they do perform, as many PTZs seem to use the smaller sensor. Color is nice, but in some cases I prefer IR. Depends on the scene. Do you have any sample clips from...
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    Less than 12 hours with a PTZ leads to an arrest and jail

    How does the PTZ425DB-AT-R perform in the dark? OK despite the 4MP on a smaller than 1/1.8 sensor? Seemed to be doing OK in the clip, even in color rather than IR mode... How much ambient lighting do you have? Have you tested out it's IR capabilities?
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    VPN problem

    Is it possible one of the certificates in the PKI infrastructure for OpenVPN, which you may have created when you set it up (you said it was a couple of years ago), has expired? Often with these certs you specify an expiry time when you create them, after this date they will cease to work. Need...
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    PSA for those purchasing new Dahua NVRs NVR16CH-AI-S2

    That's fortunate, thanks for testing. When I do use DMSS, I never use P2P.
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    PSA for those purchasing new Dahua NVRs NVR16CH-AI-S2

    In terms of this push to having a DMSS account for newer NVRs, does this affect adding via IP/Domain at all, or not? Can we continue to do this without an account?
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    Anyone running the SD8X442FA-HNF?

    Anyone on the forum using the beastly SD8X442FA-HNF? (EmpireTech SD8X442FA-HNF 1/1.8”CMOS 4MP 42X Starlight Laser Nonred Net). I would be intrigued to see some sample footage, at various distances, and to see what the "laser" IR can do...
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    If anyone needs a cheap, but good quality compact dome IP Camera, I present to you the $30 Hikvision DS-2CD2523G0-IS

    True - mainly because dome IR and dirt issues? Maybe in a sheltered porch by a door or something?
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    If anyone needs a cheap, but good quality compact dome IP Camera, I present to you the $30 Hikvision DS-2CD2523G0-IS

    Yes, just trying to think of a variety of use-cases for this camera - close range stuff I suppose mostly.
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    If anyone needs a cheap, but good quality compact dome IP Camera, I present to you the $30 Hikvision DS-2CD2523G0-IS

    Be interested to see any sample footage people might have of this camera in operation, day, night, etc. I guess it might be useful in smaller spaces, as well as perhaps an overview camera of sorts?
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    Rapid switching between IR and Color

    Yes, I had forgotten to setup the Day/Night mode properly within each profile... Changed to: And the opposite for Night profile. Imagine it will work fine now.
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