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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    Nah, they've got pictures. You just go to the web page and click. More accurately called "smart" switches. We're not talking VLANs and all that. I'm sure someone's neighbors kid is great with computers and could deal with it for them if ever needed... If not, they'll someday be paying for...
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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    I'll pass that along, thank you. If they buy some, I'll see about doing a comparison between them and the cheap Amcrest. I'm sure the Dahua's are better, but how much would be worth knowing. Sometimes you just need "good enough", sometimes you need more. Any idea if this Amcrest is the same...
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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    I hadn't, but sort of the same thing. With active POE and a managed switch you can power cycle the camera (phone, AP, tablet, whatever) remotely. Which is usually the first step tech support is gonna ask you, "Did you turn it off and back on?" Without a managed switch controlling POE you have...
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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    You can't see the indicator lights, so troubleshooting a problem requires someone with a ladder instead of someone with a cell phone camera on the floor. More effort to troubleshoot = higher maintenance costs. While the church has free labor TODAY, that guy might not be there in 2 years. And...
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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    Yes. Optical zoom would be a useful bonus. The number of times I've tried and failed to read a Comcast error code on a TV from a camera across the room... That's not my call, but my suggestion to the person making that decision will be to wait until they're back in stock if I can't find a...
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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    Thank you for the suggestion. These will be going in a public (church) space and there's no practical way to make a POE splitter look nice. (Especially a black splitter against a white drop ceiling!) They're also a point of failure, and obvious enough to someone from a distance it'll give folks...
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    Looking for POE pan/tilt under $100

    I've been happy with the Amcrest IP2M-841E : https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H2JSC6U Unfortunately they're out of stock. Can anyone recommend a POE pan/tilt w/ mic under $100?
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    Blue Iris UI3

    I've been fiddling with BI, STunnel, and a CloudFlare free plan, with "full" but not "strict" proxy settings. When connecting directly, Cloudflare set to DNS only, no proxy, things work fine. When connecting via CloudFlare's proxy, sometimes it just hangs when signing in/out "redirecting"...
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    BI New camera limit

    For whatever reason, the NVidia decoder in v4 can handle a lot more cameras than the decoder in v5. Trying out a few different video cards, I couldn't find a pattern to it. Didn't seem related to memory or GPU. I eventually gave up and threw bigger computers at it and used the overloaded ones...
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    BI New camera limit

    I never had the problem in BI4. After upgrading to BI5, systems that had a few dozen cameras on Nvidia couldn't handle more than 7 or 12 or whatever depending on the card. I even tried upgrading to newer/higher RAM cards. Ken confirmed he changed the decoder between v4 and v5 and said the lower...
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    BI New camera limit

    BI5 broke Nvidia hardware acceleration. I've seen the same behavior on multiple systems and NVidia GPUs. Systems that could do a couple dozen cameras on v4 would behave like you're describing on v5 with a half dozen. Ken (the Blue Iris developer) said that he switched to newer codecs and it was...
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    What do you use to remotely connect to your Blue Iris PC?

    https://www.splashtop.com/personal Handles video pretty well, and isn't overly expensive.
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    BlueIris: Record to NAS issues

    Correct, it isn't a Blue Iris problem. You can go back as far as you can Google, 20, 30 years ago, and you'll find people having this same issue. Not just with NAS boxes, but with Windows computers and servers too. It's also not a Windows problem. Like many Windows "problems" this is a working...
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    BlueIris: Record to NAS issues

    The username and password need to be an exact match. They cannot be different.
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    BlueIris: Record to NAS issues

    The key to the problem you ran into there was "mapped drive". Don't map a drive. Just put in the UNC path. "\\SERVER\Blue Iris 1" for example. You can browse to the share in Explorer and then just copy and paste it if it's easier that way. As long as the Blue Iris service is set to log on using...
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    Hardware acceleration cuts out intermittently

    How does clip playback compare? I threw a 4K camera on there, and it wasn't so good for the live view. Low frame rates, etc. When I played a 4k clip back from the same camera it was fine. (Well, still not so great, but it's a cheapie camera lol) If Blue Iris is streaming live view but...
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    Providing BI videos to law enforcement - need advice!

    Let the officer copy the entire original BVR file off your hard drive onto a flash drive. The original, unmodified, unexported, file with all it's metadata (time stamps, etc.) intact. They can then download Blue Iris and install the demo to do what they wish with the file. If the demo expires...
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    Hardware acceleration cuts out intermittently

    Are you using an external address instead of an internal one? Some routers don't handle things well when you access something inside the firewall using an outside the firewall address. Try using the servers internal IP address as the Primary URL. When you upped everything did you do it by...
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    Hardware acceleration cuts out intermittently

    You can test it with the demo. Download and install BI on the remote machine. Pick Demo when it asks for a license. You have 15 days to test. If you need more time, uninstall deleting settings, reinstall, and 15 more days. Demo also works if you want to provide the raw unconverted footage to...
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    Disabling Windows Updates: All or just video drivers?

    I wouldn't be comfortable disabling Windows updates on any system connected to the internet. Most are security related. Blue Iris and video card drivers are a finicky mix. I erase and install Windows from scratch, update BIOS, etc., than manually update drivers as needed after that. I do not...
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    Hardware acceleration cuts out intermittently

    Semi-related, but BI 5 has a "remote admin console". In the help file (now a PDF) look for the "Remote Management" section. It might work better for you than RDP for day to day monitoring and adjusting BI config. You'll still need RDP for other stuff. I would expect it to largely offload the...
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    Multiple Computer via Web Interface?

    You are not mistaken. It also has significant stability and design issues. The biggest being that you cannot have simultaneous local and remote consoles and it doesn't allow for a unified multi-location view. Once stable, it'll be handy for admin, but won't do what you want. You can however...
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    Clearing the Export queue

    The BIv5 manual says to switch to the Export Queue View and delete things there to remove them from the queue. Doing so gives me warnings that things will be permanently deleted. (BIv5) Telling it to go ahead (hoping it just removes from the queue and doesn't actually delete) gets a Protected...
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    Windows 10 G.711.ulaw codec for audio playback?

    I've only used Foscam/Amcrest/Hikvision/Dahua cameras. Are there some cameras that require installing a codec pack? Just wondering since I've had no issues with vanilla Win10+BI and to date have never needed to install one. There was a Time-Before-Vudu when I installed codec packs to watch...
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    BI5: Nvidia Decode Limited to 4 Cameras

    You're correct. I also took steps to keep supposedly memory leak free drivers protected from updates, etc. I still sometimes had issues, mostly on larger setups. For me, stability matters more than trimming someone else's power bill and I got tired of dealing with Intel issues. Now that Nvidia...
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    The large orange clock icon that appears and disappears?

    It never occurred to me that it was a clickable icon. I can't be the only idget in the world. (Hope not!) Maybe make it obvious? Like have a pointer icon click it or something? I'm looking forward to clicking it next time I see it, just to see what it's diagnosis is :) Everyone I've shown UI3...
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    BI5: Nvidia Decode Limited to 4 Cameras

    Ran into the same problem, but with a larger camera allowance probably because it was a higher end card. Instead of Nvidia decoding just getting slower, it just "stops". I had to switch a bunch of cameras to CPU only (since Intel is such a nightmare) to free up not just enough headroom for the...
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    Windows 10 G.711.ulaw codec for audio playback?

    Sounds to me like you're troubleshooting the wrong thing. I assume there could be exceptions if you're using some oddball camera or another, but I've yet to need to install a codec, VLC, or QuickTime and I have quite a few systems. Can you watch a YouTube video with audio? Start with making...
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    The large orange clock icon that appears and disappears?

    In the lower left corner are your servers stats. Unless the MEM or CPU are maxed out, it's probably network/internet issues. It will also hang (show the clock) if the clip is damaged.
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    Clearing the export queue

    I accidentally selected way too large of a batch to export to MP4. Manual says to switch clips view to Convert/Export view, and then delete. Deleting gives a warning that it will in fact DELETE, not remove from queue. Ignoring the warning, deletion gets blocked because the clips were...
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