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Hey everyone, I hope you are all coping with the current craziness! Back in 2018, I posted a review of the 4K Hikvision which had great performance characteristics but at a quite hefty price tag and extremely large and heavy footprint. Since then, I've been scouring the web for ANY alternatives...

Hi Folks...maybe this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a reference. I use the IOS App on my iPhone10s Max, latest version of the app and logging in as administrator. When I scroll through the cameras on the main preview screen (where you see live feed thumbnails on the left and...

Hey folks...Happy Halloween to everyone! I've asked about this almost every 12 months or so, but thought I would ping the community again to get some feedback. I have been constantly on the look-out for some new products that feature 4K with PTZ capability. I find it strange that even now (it's...

Hey folks.... I normally don't try to trash on companies especially when I've had good history with them. But, I've gone through all the proper channels and not received any response so I'm here to do my part to prevent others from wasting their money. About 3 months ago, Nelly's Security...

Greetings everyone...from Frosty North Bend WA where we still have over 3 feet of snow on the ground! I have a Blue Iris install operating at a new property we intend to build on, and pretty much everything works fine using UI3. But, whenever I go to play an alert or a clip I get the orange...

Hello everyone... At the headline states, I'm going to start building a new house on a recently cleared parcel up in the mountains. There's no way I can get internet access up there until much later in the process. In the meantime, I want to get some motion-triggered cameras setup at the site...

Hey Folks....Happy First Of May! So I've been running BI on my main desktop machine for about 4 months now. It was a brand new rig with very high end specs: Core i9-79080XE 128GB Ram (More than BI needs, but again this is my desktop PC) 1TB M-2 SSD Asus Rampage VI Extreme Motherboard Windows...

Hey Folks... I've haven't done a camera review before, but thought this would be a good one start with as I haven't seen it reviewed anywhere! I purchased this camera to replace the 1080P 36x Camera I had been using to monitor the main driveway of the house. This was after I had purchased my...

Hey folks.... So I've managed to get my systems all nicely tuned (with alot of help from this forum), and now have my BI installs running at a nice CPU load of between 35% and 45% depending on the machine (i9 to i7 respectively). However, I've noticed something odd...those numbers spike up by...

Hey folks...general question for you I'm adding a total of 8 media drives to a new PC build and was wondering if I should connect them all to the motherboard (It has 10 Sata ports), or use a PCIe 2.0 card. Or should I split them 50/50...some on the mobo and some on the card? The machine will be...

Hey Folks...Happy New Year to all! Got myself a new rig for Xmas and I wanted to see how BI would perform on this new monster CPU. The Intel Core i9-7980XE is by all accounts severe overkill for most applications. But during my last upgrade cycle (about 2 years ago), I went through the same...

Hey folks...Happy Holidays! I've been noticing recently, that my home network has begun to get quite sluggish. I'm running high quality cable throughout, with decent Gigabit switches at every junction. My Blue Iris setup consists of 34 cameras of mixed resolution but quite of few are now 4K. I...

Hey folks, just a general question on Ethernet switches. I've run a total of 32 cameras both internally and externally at my house. Up to now, I've made sure that when I extend my network runs (particularly outdoors), that I use Gigabit POE+ switches. I will typically install them mounted...

Hey folks...this seemed like the best place to ask this question. I am an avid Blue Iris User and have purchased dozens of cameras from lots of manufacturers. I currently have 26 cameras running with varying sizes and capabilities. My one big beef is with how big and bulky the "Quality" PTZ...

Hello again folks... Has anyone got experience with PTZ cameras that have the little lens-wipers running on Blue Iris? My guess is that there is no support as I can't remember seeing anything even close. But this is the place to ask these questions, so I'd love to hear from anyone on the...

Hi folks, I did a cursory search on this, so apologies if it's already been asked. What I want to know is can I receive text message alerts on my phone for when a guest user log's in to my system? There are times when I want to grant access to others, but would like to be notified on my phone...

Hey folks.... I've been meaning to get some audio going on my BI setup, so finally started the project this weekend. But when I was ready to test it, I was asked to setup my microphone in the Settings window. But when I clicked on the "Audio" tab, BI instantly hangs and eventually crashes and...

Hello again everyone, I have been experimenting with the "Rate Control" on the Blue Iris Webserver to try and find the optimal settings for bandwidth and resulting picture quality. By default, Blue Iris has "Limit bitrate" selected with a 512kbps max bitrate setup. The issue that I have, is that...

Hey guys....LOVE LOVE LOVE Blue Iris! I've now installed a second setup at my house in Arizona, so I love being able to pull up both locations right from my phone (anywhere in the world....just was in China and it worked flawlessly). What I'm wondering about is whether or not there are any...

Hello folks...as always, looking to this great group of people for some sage advice. I have purchased and installed seven of these Dahua HFW4300S cameras and have had pretty good luck with all of them. Until today! I just installed another one and the lens keeps fogging up from the inside. It's...

Hi Guys...thanks so much to all the regular posters here (especially Fenderman)!!! I think I know the answer, but here goes: I need to setup video surveillance at a second home, one where we will only be at a couple of times per year. So my thinking was, I'd rather not go the PC route and...