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Hello, I am running 8 cameras, 4 which are on continuous recording. I would like to save the continual recording cameras to my NAS because it has much more storage space and the other "motion detection" cameras to the internal storage of the server. Is there a way to configure individual...

Hello All, Last night after arriving home form work there where a number of shots fired within 60 feet of my residence. The Police arrived and asked if they can view the footage of my cameras. My cameras have served me well thus far but from time to time because I have them set for motion...

Hello, I just installed 3 new Amcrest POE Dome cameras. They appear to be working properly because the picture is very good during the day time, but I am having a hard time configuring them to have a good picture during night time. They are set up at the optimum height of 10 feet but still...

I just renewed my yearly subscription to BlueIris and downloaded the most recent version. Now I donot see any of my alerts being recorded in the database. I use to see a checkmark for each day there was a clip on the calendar to view but now the checkmarks are no longer showing. 'any...

Hello, I am going to replace all my Reolink cameras with Amcrest because I have not heard many inspiring things about Reolink but have about Amcrest. Also I have all my cameras mounted 15 to 20 feet high and have read that they should be no more than 10 feet for best quality? Are Amcrest...

Hello, Formating a new WD 4T purple surveillance hdd. Should I be concerned about which format to use? I formatted it in blocks of 1024 using EXFAT not NTFS, and seems to be working fine. Is this format ok to use? What do you think? Thank you Paul

I have a new security system with a 4 terabyte HHD and a 256 gigabyte M.2 SSD. What would be the best storage configuration for this setup? Can I keep the OS and BI together on the M.2 and use the HDD for both new and stored footage or CAN and should I keep new footage on the M.2? Any help...

Hi, When configuring my Security system does it matter where I do some or most of the configurations? What I am asking is, does the configuration on the cameras web interface like bit rate, frames per second, etc take precedence over Blue Iris or vice versa?

I want to build a new dedicated security system for all my cameras, and want to know what specs I should follow to build a good PC for Blue Iris? Can anyone give me some recommendations on hardware. I also want to know if solid state drives are a good option when it comes to security video...

Hello, I have been using Reolink cameras for a while now but from time to time they tend to go out of focuse, offline and just stop working. Are these a good quality camera or should I invest in another brand? I have been hearing alot about Hikvision, dahua, and amcrest. Can anyone please...

Hello, I have purchased 2 SV3C POE dome cameras and under a year both cameras infrared lights have failed. For my info, is this brand a good purchase, because I find it weird that both would fail in such a sort time when all my other POE dome cameras have been working consistantly without...

I recently purchased a Synology NAS and would like to have my video footage storded on it. When I remote into my security PC, I do not see the NAS showing in the network locations. (Discovery is on) I have been unable to map the drive to store the video. Can someone give me some advice on...

Can anyone explain to me how I can directly send my camera feeds to Google drive for storage. I recently purchased 2 Terabytes of storage space for this purpose. Storing everything on my computer is kinda useless if someone takes the compute.

I cannot remote access Blue Iris from my mobile phone. I went through the remote access steps in Blue Iris but now one screen continually show the red "X" that it cannot find the IP address. I am including an attachment of the error if anyone can tell me it is now not connecting. Thank you Paul

I'll admit that I am not the best at the settings of these cameras. My main purpose was home security only, not to become a professional at this. That being said, I continually have a problem trying to capture events with a couple of my cameras. Bluntly!, lol, Someone keeps letting there...

Hi, Can anyone recommend a POE dome camera with good I/O audio through the Ethernet connection. From time to time I have strangers soliciting or loitering on my property and need to displace them. A good POE dome camera with I/O audio would I think would help, especially when away. Thank you

What seems to be happening more often now is that my Blue Iris mobile app cannot locate the server. When I go into the blue Iris application I find that in the remote server section the server is not listed any more. I have started to find that when I remote into my router the port has been...

My security system has been dropping off the remote access so I can't use my phone to monitor all my cameras and recently it has been occurring more frequently. When I go into Blue Iris, the verified IP and verified server are always blank and I then need to re-add the IP and server again on...

My internet seems to be having a problem over the past month or so and when it comes back up all my camera IPs change except for one GW security camera which always keeps the same IP address. needless to say that this is the only camera that comes right back up when my internet goes down. Can...

objects come into view and my camera starts recording in the middle of the action. It seems the recording starts half way through the event. Is this a matter of changing the size of the pixel range or number of pixel object size? Objects suddenly appear.

HI, I have a question regarding recording. I have set up my recording for all new videos to record to my new folder located on my C drive(Blue Iris) and stay there for 7 days, Then automatically move them to my stored folder on my D drive to hold for an additional 14 days after which they...

Hello, My CPU was running at a very high rate (80% - 95%> sometimes) After reading the Blue Iris documentation I decided to take the following steps to fix this issue. 1) Lowered the resolution to 1080P in the ReoLinks camera software application. 2) Lowered the Receive Buffer to 2 MB rather...