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Before I do this I want to make sure I'm doing it right, and don't end up having to purchase a new license. After running smoothly for quite a long time, my installation of Blue Iris is suddenly having issues... The "service" appears to be running smoothly in the background, posting images and...

How do I manually change the camera layouts and save them? I've deselected the "drag lock" option, but still can't move or resize any of the camera view frames. Also, when I use the slider to adjust the size of a selected camera, that doesn't work. Only the size of the "earliest" camera added...

I have a niggling crash that keeps happening with Blue Iris. It's running as a service, and as far as I can tell that is actually running just fine. I will sometimes see a crash when I open the BI interface (through Remote Desktop). To recover, I have to open the task manager, and stop the BI...

I've figured out the part with cloning the camera and using the alt/framerate on one clone to create the time-lapse video. My problem is that I'd like to have the time-lapse video record to a separate folder (or even a different hard drive) to prevent it from being overwritten when the primary...

Ok, I've finally got my cameras running smoothly, and it's looking like I'll get around 40 days of clips on a TB drive, with room to spare. I've even figured out how to post images from my "Sunset Cam" on Wunderground.com, so I guess I'm making progress here. Now, I want to get BI to run at...

Well, I'm having to admit that a problem I first thought was a camera, then Blue Iris limits, has turned out (as you experts very kindly predicted) to be a network capacity issue. So, now I'm hoping I can re-design my home network topology to keep camera bandwidth from interfering with things...

I've set up a 9-camera system, using the Dahua 4300S series, along with some of the newer Dahua 1320S cameras. Individually, each camera works just fine with Blue Iris. However, when all the cameras are running, the data rate for one of the cameras will drop down to almost nothing, and often...

Well, the problem with my camera isn't the RJ45 jack/keystone as I thought it was. This is a camera that has been in service for a year or so, and has previously had no problems. Now, when I'm connected to my TPLink POE switch, the camera does not power-up. I have tried each of the other 3...

I need to replace the female ethernet jack on my HFW4300S V2 (or directly splice to the cable with the ethernet pigtail). I found, unfortunately, that Dahua does not use any standard color coding for the wires to the RJ 45 pigtail and the 12V injector pigtail. Where the wiring plugs to the...

Well, my learning curve is progressing, and I've managed to set up and use Remote Desktop to access my BI server. One odd thing I've noticed is that when I view the live feeds of the BI cameras (5 cams at this point), via Remote Desktop, what I see only updates every 5 seconds (give or take)...

I've moved my camera setup to a new server, which should have quite enough horsepower to manage the video stream. However, one camera is giving me framerates of well less than one per second. Th other cameras are right up there where I've set them, at 10 fps (both in-camera and in BI). Are...

I'm finding that I have event recording stalls that result in missing video segments. A motion event will trigger a camera, then a few seconds in, recording stops, though the time-record continues as though recording is going on. Eventually recording might resume, but there is obviously a big...

Now that I have 5 Dahua 4300S series cameras up and running, I can see that additional computer horsepower is a definite plus. I'm still keeping the cameras at 3MP resolution, but have backed the frame rates down to 5/sec. I'm sometimes seeing "stalls" when recording events, resulting in...

While I wait for Fedex to deliver parts (a couple of PoE Switches), I was wondering about setting up a weather/sunset camera. I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to post the pictures at intervals of 2-5 minutes, but I'm a little concerned about possibly screwing up a camera. Th natural...

As I add cameras to my system, do I need to have a separate port for each? For example 80 for the first, 81 for the second, 83 for the third, and so on? I've got two cameras working on Port 80, but I seem to have occasional connectivity problems. The problem could also be related to the...

My Camera has two optional sub-streams that can be set with lower resolution and, I think, in different video format. Is it possible to use a sub-stream to view the camera activity on the desktop, but to use the higher resolution main-stream for recording video? If yes, how would I go about that?

Any help on why the Clips status message at the bottom of the page doesn't update when I delete/destroy the clips in the clip list? I've looked in the folder where they are supposed to be saved, and there is nothing there. I've set the path in the [Clips and Archiving] tab to an empty drive...

Is there a simpler explanation of what the timeline represents? I know that there each "rectangle" is color-coded by camera. But I only have video of the few seconds of a trigger event, yet the colored rectangle spans a lot of "dead air" with no video recorded. In other words, why does the...

I'm beginning to set up a video surveillance system, and am realizing that I'll probably need to build a dedicated computer for that. The system I'm considering should be powerful enough, I think (i7 4790, 8gb, and TB hard drives). The question I have is whether I would see a great benefit...