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I've poked around the camera interface, and can't see any way to mask an area from being included in Smart Motion Detection. Is this not possible, or not intuitive... or am I an idiot for missing it? Cheers guys.

I have now got my Blue Iris system running in a stable manner, and was thinking I could get HASS running alongside it. Is this a bad idea... particularly with respect to reducing the security of the Blue Iris system? Cheers! Steve

I'm getting far less days of storage than expected from 8 cams onto a 14TB drive. I've attached a photo of my storage settings, which I acknowledge I could be misinterpreting. Currently I have footage back to 29 October, with the BI status bar reporting "Clips: 521 items, 1.58T / 11.73T"...

Hey guys. I just updated one step to 5.7.9.12 after dredging through some "activities" last night. My partner comes inside and asks for a look. Timeline now only shows the last six hours. Any clues on how to restore the full timeline?

Blue Iris is showing a yellow exclamation mark against one of my cameras. The live view is fluent and without any glitches. Triggers played back are garbled. I've tried different frame rates, down from 12 to 3. I've "restarted camera". I've restarted BI. I have not disconnectedly the camera...

Just did a quick search and couldn't find anything obvious... is there any special requirement to view the contents of an SD card out of Dahua 5442 cams using a PC? Windows just reported that I need to format it first. Obviously that's not a plan!

I have a new second surveillance site with 2x Dahua 5442TMP-ASE and maybe a few of my 2MP Starlight hand-downs. I need an NVR, and am trying to decide which way to go. The cheapest/easiest option is to buy a bottom of the range Dahua NVR for a few hundred bucks (AU) and be done with it. An...

Moving discussion regarding this from another of my threads. I am putting 3 Dahua cams up at a house I need to monitor. I plan on using cameras with SD card recording, plugged in to a old OpenWRT router and sending event footage out via a Nighthawk 4G LTE mobile router. I want to bring that in...

Long time no visit. We have recovered a property which is now vacant. Because of the grief involved I need to quickly smash up some surveillance. Ordinarily I'd grab the necessary from Andy, but I don't think I can wait... even for DHL. - 3666. Local installer/suppliers, who are proving cagey...

TLDR: If someone has Android DMSS version 1.93.000 handy, I would be really appreciative if you could push it up somewhere I could access it. Just when I was close to happy with the performance of DMSS, I installed an update, forgetting to back up the version I was using first. Rookie error...

I have a thread going regarding push notifications, and the topic of firmware level arose. My NVR-4116 is still running 3.215.000000.4 with a Build Date of January 2018. I know the advice is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but that's getting a bit old and Version 4 beckons. Putting aside...

I've only just changed from email to DMSS push notifications. The video clip is more useful than the still image emailed, and it's working reliably. I was very pleased with the change. However I am concerned/perplexed that I receive DMSS push notifications when away from my home WiFi and not...

I have two NVR-4116 from Andy. One is a Dahua branded NVR-4116HS-4KS2 and the other is an unbranded NVR-4116-4KS2. Both run the same firmware and the circuit boards are essentially identical. The HS has a front panel USB port and one on the rear, the other has both on the rear. The two headers...

Catchy title fishing for some chitchat comparing some of the latest low-light offerings against old favourites. Some of these cams seem really close to one another in specs, and I wonder how much is being missed in such a simplistic comparison of numbers and feature check-boxes. So how about...

This ad is from a Dahua reseller with their own brand. Does anyone have any clues as to what model Dahua this might be, if it is indeed one at all? It looks like OK buying??? Cheers, Steve Australia

How tolerant are surveillance cameras of variation in the 12V supply? Is it likely that "automotive" ones are designed to be more tolerant of... say... a range of around 11V to 14V at the input? Background: I'm thinking about replacing the "automotive accessory grade" reversing camera on my...

Can anyone shed light on the need for gDMSS to have location access permission under Android 9/Pie? The app will not start if you disable location access [emoji848] Also recommendations of other viewers would be of interest. Cheers, Steve

As mentioned elsewhere my NVR 4116HS-4KS2 mainboard is in for warranty assessment. However even if approved for replacement will not be back before I go on holidays. Then there's always the chance the replacement will be declined. The fault is that the NVR immediately overloads any power supply...

Snoops, My NVR is out of action and I'm trying to use Smart PSS to catch my camera feeds on my Windows PC until it is sorted out. Obviously it's a big time of the year for parcel delivery, and monetary stress means opportunistic theft is at its peak. Anyway, I can record successfully on the...

I found my NVR had died today. It's only by coincidence I have had a few reasons to review things over a shorter period than I probably would have otherwise. It could easily have gone unnoticed for weeks. I've started thinking about monitoring the system somehow. I know there are online ping...

Rookie mistake #26 - Buying a hard drive bigger than your NVR can handle. In the pursuit of more days storage, I forgot the 6TB limit for my NVR 4116HS-4KS2... and bought a Purple 8tb. Upon installation I immediately noticed momentary glitch/pausing on Live View, and sure enough it's in the...

We're going on a long holiday... too long to retain all footage at a useful quality, so I started looking at ways to retain key "action" events. Using the NVR interface, I turned off Continuous recording and set it to Motion Detect instead. Again, using the NVR, I set up motion zones on my...

I'm cabling my new system today and have two options regarding the CAT connections to the switch. One is to directly connect RJ45s to the cam feeds and plug them straight into the switch. The other is to use some 5E keystone wall plates I already have, then use patch leads between them and the...

I've looked back and forth between the specs on this machine and the higher spec 42xx and 52xx series. I'm not finding anything which motivates me to spend more. Something in my gut is telling me I'm going to regret buying the baby NVR. There are several throughput limits on the little entry...

One of my numerous noob questions for the day, and the day is young here ;) I'm struggling with my pre-conceived budget, which is not as much a financial constraint as a preference of how much to invest. To enable a greater spend on cameras I am investigating the lowest cost, workable option...

I'm chasing some ideas from those who can afford the time. I want a camera to cover some of this area so I I can monitor the boat and caravan (travel trailer). The furthest out that I could install a post is the corner of the brick garden bed. If I capture from overhead I figure I'm not going...

Is anyone experiencing "broken link placeholders" instead of images when viewing via Tapatalk? I'm using the Android version. I have checked the web version of the forum and the images are definitely there. Clues and/or assistance greatly appreciated. Cheers, Steve

First post regarding a new system I need to put together... and surprisingly for me it's about a component that I never factored. A PoE switch. Thoughts on this for AU$90 (US$70) second hand? 24-Port Gigabit Smart Managed PoE Switch with 12 PoE ports Context is a 6-8 channel NVR based system...