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I just want to comment on the last few posts. The drives all worked for 30ish days and then stopped. It's not a boot order issue, the drives CAUSE THE BIOS TO NOT POST. Please understand that means it simply will not boot from any media at all any time. I just dropped a Seagate in that...

Possibly, but why not the other WD drive that's always in the machine (1tb OS drive)? Also the backup WD Red drive never has the problem. Nada, same results as when the drive is connected directly to the mobo. I agree, but hindsight is 20/20 and WD keeps replacing these purple drives...

Nothing in disk management, I can tell when they spin up I heard them when they were new.

If you're suggesting hot plugging the drive, when I do that it isn't recognized and it doesn't sound like spins up.

I guess I'm not being clear. Being connected as a secondary (or third, fourth, etc.. drive) The drive causes ANY computer its in to fail to post. Of course I'm not trying to boot from the drive all that's on it is BI recordings.

No PC will boot with the drive connected so I'm not sure how I could check the drive.

Hi mat, Is this something I could look at while the drive is out of the PC?

I figured I'd jump on here and post because I just wrapped up my 4th WD Purple 4tb for an RMA replacement. At this point I think I've spent almost the cost of a new drive in return shipping. Not to mention the lost footage every time this happens. Drive is a WD40PURZ-85TTDY0. My BI machine...

Screen shots of my config. I've since turned off trig + cont. I turned that on when I first set up BI thinking it was like my old DVR. In order to get motion alerts but also record continuously you had to enable a function named similarly. I did that brainlessly thinking "I need alerts...

Hi all, Whats a typical configuration look like? I had some clips go mysteriously missing recently and I'm wonder if I had something out of order. I also just added a bigger drive to the machine so that prompted me to take a closer look at my configuration. My machine has a 1tb system...

Now if only we could get something working on the Roku. All my TVs have 1 which is used for SlingTV and Plex. I ditched cable long ago. I can't justify putting a FireTV on all of them to gain BI viewing.

Update: I'm playing with bp2008's UI3 right now and it's looking good remotely!!

Hi all, I'm running the latest version BI and bp2008's UI2. When connected over LAN the ui2 live view is very fluid and looks great. When connected over the internet it tends to drop the frame rate a lot. I made sure my user account has no bandwidth restrictions, and I checked the...

Just Arlington 8141-1s, screw them to the house, screw the camera brackets to those, caulk everything for good measure.

badneighbors, It is Arlington. It's the 8141-1.

Is there anyway to get RTSP streams out of BI? If I can, what is the URL convention?

Blake, No, all the cables are coming up from the basement inside the wall stud pocket. Not easy or fun but it looks way better and it's more secure.

I want to thank everyone here for the wealth of information and contributions. I wanted to share how I mounted my Hikvision cams on my siding. Nothing revolutionary, but it's clean and solid. 4 of my 7 outdoor cameras are mounted this way. I have clap board on my house so I brought the CAT...

I set up a 1:1 layout but my camera compliment didn't lend it self to that very well. I ended up making my web group super wide. Doesn't match my layout in BI but it looks nice and fills the area well.

bp, Thank you, It's still very different from the BI display, but I will play with it and tweak it. I have a few cameras that don't match the rest. Most are 1080p cameras, but I have 2 of them rotated sideways and 1 of my cameras is a 640x480. So they don't tile all that great. I wish BI...

Sure, attached.

bp2008, Is there any way to adjust the aspect of the camera window? I have my system running at 1080p so it's 16:9, it looks like UI2 wants to smoosh all the cameras in a 4:3 format. That results in all the cameras being on top of each other, skewed, etc.. The UI is excellent and working...

Where is everyone's favorite place to buy Hikvision cameras and why?

Ok so it looks like "Solo Selected Camera" keyboard shortcut and right clicking a camera and selecting "Prioritize Selected Camera" are the same thing and its a toggle that's either on or off. That great, so I just need to leave that on. Unfortunately my hot keys that trigger the camera...

I'm integrating this into my AV. I'll be running the Camera server's monitor feed into a video switcher and I'm sending keyboard commands over RS232 to the server to trigger the grid view or individual camera views. I do this now by sending IR commands to my DVR. I can't figure out a better...

I thought I had it working last night but today it seems to not be. I'm trying out Blue Iris before I buy it. It's looking like I will go this route instead of a hardware DVR solution. The one thing I'm trying to accomplish now is having a keyboard shortcut (or shortcuts) to bring a camera...

Hi Dodutils, Its actually the DS-2CD2335-I. I think these are Chinese market cameras with English firmware stuffed on them. Plenty of POE on tap, I have about 330W still available on the switch. Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm transitioning from a very basic DVR based system to an IP cam / NVR system. So far I picked up a couple Hikvision DS-2CD2335-I cameras to try out. Now I'm looking at getting an NVR. I need to support 8-10 cameras at decently high frame rate and resolution, ease of use when...