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on find it brings up the Onvif, wasn't sure if that was meaningful. Thanks

Based on advice here I'm setting up Blue Iris. It seems a lot of times onvif is recommended. But Blue Iris has a dahua setting. Which is preferable?

I don't have an old desktop unfortunately, just a new one. Would it be possible to get multiple drives into an inspiron using duct tape or such? I have a couple of purples I'd like to repurpose rather than buying one big one

thanks all, obviously my skills and knowledge in this area are lacking. I guess the question then is the dell outlet one worth it over a cheap HP elite?

even though they are optiplexes, and latter is later gen?

Thanks. I want to see if it works for 1 cam on my lenovo, and then buy a refurb if so - I just posted 3 possibles on the blue iris forum rather than have them over where I was before in the interest of keeping things organized.

I currently have 8 Dahua Cameras, might buy a couple more. Prefer to keep mainstream saved on drive. Looking at HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF Intel Core i5-8500 3GHz 8GB 512GB SSD Win10 Computer PC $180 Dell OptiPlex 3060 SFF i5-8500 3GHz 8GB 256GB SSD Windows 10 Desktop Computer PC $255 Dell...

I had been under the impression one can demo Blue Iris, but the page linked to here says "all sales final". Is there a 2 week demo period buying through here? Or only directly from the company?

You are absolutely right insufficient coffee I meant SSD

Thanks. I like to do continuous record so it sounds like I should look for something with 3 bays, optical plus 2 purples. It seems like having system and blue iris on an optical is preferred?

fair enough. I used to be a computer nerd but my info is far far out of date. If the case only has one slot for a hard drive, is there some sort of bus I can set up to use external drives? Or connect it to a synology? You've pretty much convinced me to try it

How do I tell if it's any good? I don't trust ebay for things like this, but maybe I'm wrong?

Thanks. I had used that before, but thought pss was the preferred way. My issue with all of it is that it feels like windows before windows 95 - you need to know all these back asswards things to get anything done. I used to be a techie, but I just have too much to do these days, so I...

Is that accessed directly through monitor attached to nvr? My NVR is Dahua NVR5216-4KS2

Thanks for all your help. It might be a good idea to do the test. I should probably swap the questions over to the BI forum, but I have a Lenovo ideacenter gaming5 with i7-12700 , 16 gigs ram, and a 3060 graphics card that I only use for the usual business stuff, do you think that could handle...

That seems like something I should try, then. I guess the cost would be an additional windows computer, I have a surface laptop 2 but it probably can't run things... And I assume I should dedicate a computer to it, not use my desktop

That looks great. I wonder if it is possible to run Blue Iris and the NVR at the same time?

I can usually get PSS to work but the fact it's a battle every time it's frustrating to me. I'm a casual user but in the middle of a city so I often see or rather have to search through for interesting things. Every time I do it PSS drives me nuts. In this case I have the sneaking suspicion...

I have 8 dahua cameras and an NVR. Quality is good of course, but searching for videos in the SmartPSS software drives me around the bend. It's the opposite of intuitive. Today I can't search by IVS. It's like it all vanished. I might have done it on the NVR, can't remember. What can I do...

So bizarrely I got it working. I'm not precisely sure how. I think the trick is using Firefox instead of chrome, which let me download certain plugins... But after accessing the camera's and everything directly through firefox, I can now use the mac version. Which is great, since my windows...

yeah, though I think its more those on the fence in reality... there are a decent number of people out there who only want to commit easy crimes.

Its tough to resist a cordless grinder. I cut kryptonite locks off bikes for local police sometimes. Trying to get it under 20 seconds for my own amusement...

I, or anyone with the right tools, can go through both of them as fast as one of them basically. But it would still take at least 15 seconds so you'd get a good pic. And you aren't usually going to get pros breaking in.

would love to see it. I just mounted mine on a PT plaque on the side of my brick garage. Annoyingly even with a 1 3/8 hole in the brick all the mic stuff (which I don't actually care about) kept getting caught. I finally took electrical tape and double it back so it wouldn't catch. Not the...

yeah, I'm thinking if on a tree or some such. I might grab a regular EMT box and see if it works, or do a plaque variant out of PT. I tried to stuff the pigtails into the camera, if that makes sense, but clearly no space.

note: These bullets have a lot of pigtail stuff coming out, if stuff won't be stuffed up in a soffit I'd think pretty seriously about getting the junction box for these. Given my needs I expect I will be buying the turrets.

I'm trying to run smart PSS on mac (10.11.6), I can see the NVR on the network, and on Config. But when I run Smart PSS 2.0 it seems to just open and hang after I put in the password. I assume it's looking for a plugin or something? Or am I missing something else? Note, I just installed it...

Setting up a Dahua system.

Thank you. Just read your post on them which I found in your profile, oddly hadn't found it on search bar. It seems also better IR? But reading your other stuff I plan on switching to IR cannons like you did. Also I'm in the city of Richmond so I have a lot of ambient light. I guess I far...

Well, I'm assuming (for this) they are the same in all respects except audio/alarm IO. If that's the case, the turret would seem to have a hugely better form factor, since these bullets are huge - more like box cameras. Thing is, I'm not at all sure about my assumptions, most likely case...